Influencer's Day of 'Clean Drinking' Horrifies Internet - Newsweek

A TikTok influencer's video sharing what she drinks successful a time has gone viral, with galore fearing that her proposal whitethorn really beryllium dangerous.

The video, posted by idiosyncratic kendelkay, has been liked connected TikTok astir 200,000 times, and has been wide shared and criticized connected Twitter.

It shows the influencer drinking a assortment of beverages passim the day, including respective liters of water, vitamin infusions, herbal shots, bony broth and an "antioxidant mocktail."

"This woman is 1 vitamin distant from implicit renal shutdown," wrote user @clicheguevara_ successful a remark connected the Twitter post. The station received 556 retweets and 2,856 punctuation tweets.

While drinking water is steadfast for the body, drinking excessively overmuch tin really beryllium damaging to your health.

"Water intoxication results from drinking excessively overmuch water. The excess h2o dilutes sodium successful the humor and causes fluids to determination wrong cells, causing them to swell," Irene Labuschagne, a dietitian and nutritionist astatine Stellenbosch University successful South Africa, told Newsweek.

"In uncommon cases, h2o intoxication tin origin swelling successful the brain and go fatal. The kidneys can region 20–28 liters of h2o per day, but they cannot excrete much than 0.8 to 1.0 liters per hour. Drinking much than this tin beryllium harmful."

Newsweek has contacted Kendel Kay for comment.

Stock representation of h2o being poured into a glass. A TikTok influencer sharing her drinking regular has sparked controversy, with galore arguing that she is promoting unhealthy levels of h2o and vitamin consumption. iStock / Getty Images Plus

Kendel Kay besides shows herself consuming a assortment of vitamins and mineral supplements and shots, galore of which incorporate precocious concentrations of the progressive ingredient.

The pinkish lemonade pre-workout point that she drinks contains 106 percent of an adult's regular recommended allowance of vitamin C alone, arsenic good arsenic a assortment of amino acids, according to the constituent list.

While each of these compounds are known to beryllium steadfast successful mean dosages matching the requirements of the body, successful excess, they tin damage interior organs owed to gathering up astatine precocious levels.

"The imaginable adverse effects of overconsumption of vitamins and minerals volition beryllium connected the vitamin oregon mineral and the wide authorities of health," Labuschagne said.

"Some micronutrients specified arsenic vitamins A and D, are known to beryllium toxic if taken successful excess. Undesirable broadside effects hap astatine precise precocious intakes of definite water-soluble vitamins. Megadoses of 1 nutrient tin interfere with the bioavailability oregon metabolism of different nutrient, e.g. zinc supplements whitethorn inhibit the absorption of robust oregon copper."

According to Labuschagne, nary grounds exists to amusement that a steadfast idiosyncratic pursuing a balanced fare with a assortment of nutrient needs a vitamin oregon mineral supplement.

"Supplements indispensable alternatively beryllium utilized arsenic a multi vitamin/mineral supplement than combinations of idiosyncratic vitamins oregon minerals—it is much economical and prevents the information of imbalances and interactions among micronutrients. All vitamins and minerals indispensable beryllium considered perchance toxic: amounts supra the [recommended allowance] indispensable lone beryllium utilized nether aesculapian supervision for circumstantial deficiencies."

"Clean" eating and drinking, which involves eating tons of greens and avoiding each foods deemed 'toxic,' often those containing carbohydrates, gluten, dairy oregon processed sugars, has been hugely fashionable online, particularly with teenagers.

"However, similar with different restrictive diets, this has spurred galore to go fixated connected maintaining this 'perfect' fare and losing unhealthy amounts of weight, according to NIH's National Library of Medicine. This is defined arsenic an eating upset successful and of itself, orthorexia nervosa, and according to 1 German 2018 survey published successful the diary Eating and Weight Disorders (Studies connected Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity) whitethorn impact up to 7 percent of people.

Orthorexia, according to the National Eating Disorders Association, whitethorn impact symptoms including compulsive checking of constituent lists and nutritional labels, cutting retired progressively ample nutrient groups with the objection of a constrictive radical of foods that are deemed steadfast oregon pure, and showing precocious levels of distress erstwhile these foods aren't available.

"Often, the enactment betwixt steadfast eating and orthorexia is rigidity: the bulk of teens bash not request to 'eat clean' to beryllium healthy," Lisa Ranzenhofer, a objective scientist astatine the Eating Disorder Research Unit/Columbia Doctors, and an adjunct prof astatine the New York State Psychiatric Institute successful New York City, told VeryWell Family.

"Healthy eating for astir adolescents includes regular meals and snacks from a wide scope of nutrient groups and types of foods. It is flexible and adaptive depending connected the situation."

If you oregon a loved 1 are coping with an eating disorder, interaction the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline for enactment astatine 1-800-931-2237.