Medical staff, in that number of pediatricians, clinical psychology specialists, dietitians, and experts on eating disorders, are trying to suspend an Australian study that examines the results of an intermittent fasting diet for young people.

They talk, in fact that the "fast track to health", the annual research plan at the children's clinic Monash in Melbourne and the children's clinic in Westmid in Sydney, unethical, due to the fact that restrictive diets increase the possibility of future eating disorders, especially for young people.

While the intermittent hunger was advertised as a mind-blowing bio-hack, especially between a set Of silicon plain with soy filler, a number of studies that are on the subject have noticed, in fact, that it is no more effective than a simple reduction in calories for weight costs. And health professionals talk, in fact that it has the ability to be much more dangerous.

Louise Adams, a clinical psychology specialist in Australia, filed a complaint, signed by 28 other health professionals from Australia and the US, with the human studies ethics Committee (HREC) at Sydney children's clinic, the body that confirmed the study. It is still the beginning of a Change.org a petition calling to end the study. Adams talks, in fact that the study illustrates the malicious mark, located around the size of the body. "The world would prefer that people were ill with eating disorders, and not stayed in a larger body," says Adams. “This is a weight shift.”

Not so long ago, studies have shown that the diet is considered one of the leading precursors of the formation of eating disorders, and in fact that young people who diet, skip eating methods, and on the other to reduce calorie intake are more likely to develop eating disorders and the presence of excess weight than their non-diet peers. ”Clinically, we know what the limitation actually leads to overeating," the talks of Adams.

What are the threats of diet?
A 1999 study in 2000 of Australian young people noticed, in fact, that girls who sat on a diet, at 5 one more often than their non-Smoking peers diet for becoming eating disorders, and those who followed a rather extreme diet were 18 one more often. Diet was the most tremendous predictor of becoming an eating disorder. While the difference between an extreme and a moderate diet is a certain amount personal, the 2017 study of Mature, comparing intermittent hunger with a direct decrease in nutritional status, 38% of the fasting group dropped out of the study, as opposed to 29% for the calorie restriction group, suggesting that hunger is actually harder to hold on, and based on these criteria, it is likely more extreme.

Adams and her co-authors hesitate in the need for research on intermittent fasting and the cost of weight in young people, because studies conducted on the current day between adults have proven, in fact, that this is no more effective than the leading calorie restriction, which itself for itself occasionally happens to be effective in a long-term opportunity. The bulk of studies of children and body weight, as a rule, evaluate behavioral changes—reducing the time on the screen, the best access to healthy food and social components of food and well-being through the prism of families, and do not associate all kinds of strategies to limit calories.

Actually what we know about zero gravity interference
Adams that, in fact that weightlessness interventions that aim to improve physiological and psychological well-being without taking into account the number on the scale, has been shown to be effective in young people, without the risk of dietary restrictions. For example for what to expose children to these risks, elementary to see what dietary restriction works than any other everything? “We have to look at these Luggage, as an intuitive table, helping the boys to release the criteria of power, doing a great job of developing a healthy view of the body and noticing the shift of weight stigma and weight", - she speaks. "Helping children develop a relaxed and pleasant relationship with food...and with their bodies moving.”

In the letter-complaint, Adams shows the Association between weight stigma and physical and psychological well-being, and asks nasteleno weight-neutral classifications to health. It's still what exactly that recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics healing of obesity focuses on household behavior transformation—providing access to healthy food, limiting time viewing and approval of the physiological energy. In these guidelines, the AAP States, in fact “that " understanding that a bad body image has the potential to lead to ED [eating disorder], guardians are required to ignore explanations about body weight and interfere with diet efforts that have the potential to unintentionally lead to ed and body dissatisfaction.”

Another 1 responsible discrepancy associated with this study is the fact that for families the dangers of an important limitation of nutrition are not clearly attributed. The consent configuration for guardians says, " We don't expect any side effects or risks associated with this study. If the study saddened your baby, you or your baby will be able to finish it at every time.”

How does periodic famine work in this context?
Fast Track to Health aims to enroll 186 young people aged 13-17 with a BMI of 30 or higher. In the direction of the first month all the kids will consume 700-800 calories a day. Following that, in the direction of the rest of the year, they will be divided into 2 groups. I will follow the diet is “modified alternate day fasting” in the direction 3 days in a week (600-700 calories any day) and “standard healthy diet” based on the Australian dietary appointments in the direction of other 4 days every week. The 2nd group is kept low-calorie diet (1450-1900 calories) any day. According to AAP estimates, the average nutritional value of young people is obliged to take from 2200 to 2800 calories per day. The AU$1.2 million study ($860,000) is funded by the state Board of health and medical studies of Australia, the government health organization.

In his own response to the complaint, HREC believed that the study did not actually meet the claims of the Australian study of pluses and unity. Not least, it required the research team to increase the personal risk management project, encompassing “improved communication with members and their families regarding the risks associated with eating disorders,” and adding more painstaking prediction of eating disorders to the study.

In response to a request for comments, the Commissioner of the children's clinic in Westmid sent a message (pdf) stating that “important precautions have been taken to identify each risk of harm to any member during the trial and the following measures have been taken to manage and mitigate these risks.” He still accepted the fact that diet will not be suitable for young people without painstaking medical research. “This image of the intention of nutrition must be realized only under the painstaking clinical supervision of a multidisciplinary team in the criteria of the tertiary clinic and is not specialized as a joint Council for the public," the message says.