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Slimming in the App Store
There are many fitness apps on the market now. They are intended to help with training or to help with the change in diet. That this can also be beaten on the strings, proves this new app: "My Diet Trainer" .
The colorful application, where you have the opportunity to create your own avatar, is obviously aimed at young girls. At the beginning you enter size, weight and weight loss goal . You will also be asked to specify why you want to lose weight. Already the possible reasons make one stop "I want to lose weight, because I want to strengthen my self-confidence", "I want to lose weight, because I want to look more attractive to others" or "I want to lose weight, because I want to impress others with my appearance" .
It gets pretty stupid to see how the "My Diet Trainer" app is supposed to motivate you to lose weight: with slogans like " Are you bothering your thighs, controlling yourself - the reward is worth it?", "Ask a friend or Relatives to pay you for every kilogram you lost " or " Imagine that you are the most beautiful girl in your class ". Above all, it is particularly scary that thinness is equated with popularity, which is a dangerous message especially for young girls.
With regular notifications, "My Diet Trainer" encourages self-control, which ultimately results in all thoughts about food, or rather, NON-food. A dangerous circuit that can lead directly to an eating disorder .
We find: A pretty stupid fitness app that clearly overshoots the goal! Instead of making a healthy lifestyle easier, only a one-sided beauty ideal is promoted. Hands off!
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