You Might Be Mental If You're Always Instagramming Food. Why?
Do you whip out your smartphone every time before a meal to instagram your dish to the world? It may seem like an innocent act of sharing our day with friends, but researchers say that "foodstagramming" and "food porn" might signal a bigger problem. They say that it might lead to weight gain and eating disorders. Does looking through foodstagram make you crave for food? Tell us in the "Responses" tab below!
By Mei Mei Chu — 10 May 2013, 04:32 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
Researchers say instagramming your food might signal a bigger problem
Researchers say instagramming your food might signal a bigger problem
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It's becoming a staple in the world of social media, but one doctor says using Instagram to show off tonight's dinner might be bad for your health.
digtriad.comPeople who post pictures of almost every meal they eat to social media may have a deeper medical issue, according to the mental health chair for the Canadian Obesity Network.
Taylor says the practice establishes a bad relationship between the uploader and food.
digtriad.comDr. Valerie Taylor, chief of psychiatry at Women's College Hospital at the University of Toronto, argues that obsessively documenting one's meals could be a signal of a larger dieting problem.
"I see clients for whom food has become problematic, and they struggle to go out and not have food be the key element of all social interaction: what they eat, when they ate, when they are going to eat again," Taylor told The Huffington Post.
Taylor said some post pictures of food because food plays a significant role in their lives. You don't take pictures of who you're with, you take pictures of your food.
Instagramming your food may lead to weight gain and eating disorders
Dr. Oz invited three respected food personalities -- Joe Bastianich, Gail Simmons and Amanda Simpson of Food Porn Daily -- on the show to discuss whether or not food porn is making us fat.
"Like the sexual kind of pornography, food porn whets your appetite in ways you have never imagined, allowing you to lust after the orgasm of the perfect bite." Dr Oz.
Dr. Valerie Taylor, a psychiatrist at Women's College Hospital at the University of Toronto, says that taking pictures of every meal and uploading it to Instagram could lead to eating disorders, or unhealthy weight gain
digtriad.comWhile Taylor argues that producing such images may signal an unhealthy preoccupation with food, others have linked the consumption of food photography to eating issues and weight gain.
