Kpop diets
kittycatboss
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I've been hearing a lot about the diets kpop idols go through in order to be skinny. For example, one artist would only eat a sweet potato, an apple, and a protein shake throughout the day. Does this provide all the nutrients one needs in a day? And is there any merit to these diets or are these idols being really unhealthy and starving themselves?
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of course it doesnt....Thats why its newsworthy enough for you to hear about it..8
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What do you think?7
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Sounds pretty awful to me.3
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There is a reason MFP enforces a minimum calorie allowance. 1500 for men and 1200 for women. minimum.6
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That's called an eating disorder - not a valid diet to follow. How in any way do you think those 3 items could provide adequate nutrition?9
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I'm sure that everything written about the Kpop stars is gospel truth, too.
SMH.
Unless you're a Kpop star, why worry about it? Eat what you need to be healthy. And if you are a Kpop star, still eat what you need to be healthy, but tell your publicist to say you only eat a cup of sauerkraut, 6 lychee, and one carrot daily.19 -
Lol wut? Why?2
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What's a KPop star?4
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WinoGelato wrote: »What's a KPop star?
Oddly enough we have a running family joke that Trevor (the cat in my avi) is a huge K-Pop fan and has a blog. (I even made a joke blog for him at one point. I have forgotten the address, though.)5 -
Oh boy. I love kdramas, which use a fair number of kpop stars. They are all very slender... but the Chinese stars are even tinier (particularly the women) i have no doubt that eating disorders are common, as in any industry requiring an extreme focus on weight ( such as modelling, ballet and gymnastics)
I wouldn't recommend the "diet"6 -
kittycatboss wrote: »I've been hearing a lot about the diets kpop idols go through in order to be skinny. For example, one artist would only eat a sweet potato, an apple, and a protein shake throughout the day. Does this provide all the nutrients one needs in a day? And is there any merit to these diets or are these idols being really unhealthy and starving themselves?
That idol's named IU, and she does it a few days before coming out with a new album. Thank god it's not her daily long-term diet. And no, it doesn't provide the nutrients one needs, and I definitely wouldn't recommend it.1 -
anitree123 wrote: »kittycatboss wrote: »I've been hearing a lot about the diets kpop idols go through in order to be skinny. For example, one artist would only eat a sweet potato, an apple, and a protein shake throughout the day. Does this provide all the nutrients one needs in a day? And is there any merit to these diets or are these idols being really unhealthy and starving themselves?
That idol's named IU, and she does it a few days before coming out with a new album. Thank god it's not her daily long-term diet. And no, it doesn't provide the nutrients one needs, and I definitely wouldn't recommend it.
How on earth did you find this year old thread to bump?8 -
WinoGelato wrote: »anitree123 wrote: »kittycatboss wrote: »I've been hearing a lot about the diets kpop idols go through in order to be skinny. For example, one artist would only eat a sweet potato, an apple, and a protein shake throughout the day. Does this provide all the nutrients one needs in a day? And is there any merit to these diets or are these idols being really unhealthy and starving themselves?
That idol's named IU, and she does it a few days before coming out with a new album. Thank god it's not her daily long-term diet. And no, it doesn't provide the nutrients one needs, and I definitely wouldn't recommend it.
How on earth did you find this year old thread to bump?
It's funny when these threads get bumped, you wonder what in the world are people thinking about to go searching for this kind of stuff.
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and you wonder why a random conversation gets added to at all - I can sort of understand searching and browsing through the archives if you are sick and home alone or bored and your TV is broken or cant sleep in middle of night or something - but surely you know you are doing that and just read and dont add a comment??6
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Kpop celebs loom larger in some hoi polloi lives than others.0
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I still don't know what kpop is!
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Davidsdottir wrote: »I still don't know what kpop is!
Lol. I had to google it. Korean pop music.
I am totally disconnected when it comes to most pop culture.1 -
Davidsdottir wrote: »I still don't know what kpop is!
Lol. I had to google it. Korean pop music.
I am totally disconnected when it comes to most pop culture.
Oooohhh... yeah, I listen to metal LOL0 -
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I once was into rock and metal, then Big Bang (the kpop boy band, not the actual big bang) happened...0
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There's no merit. They are under a huge amount of pressure to be that weight for comebacks and they do whatever they can to get there. A lot of times it's being passed down from people who know nothing about nutrition and do it because it happened to work. The pre-debut/comeback diets are terrible and only exacerbate the issues that come from stress and so little sleep, and it's why so many of them pass out. Many of them are underweight. A lot of them are kids when they start and they don't even realize the impact it's having on their bodies.
Edit: Omg this is a necro'ed post whhyyyyy1 -
WinoGelato wrote: »anitree123 wrote: »kittycatboss wrote: »I've been hearing a lot about the diets kpop idols go through in order to be skinny. For example, one artist would only eat a sweet potato, an apple, and a protein shake throughout the day. Does this provide all the nutrients one needs in a day? And is there any merit to these diets or are these idols being really unhealthy and starving themselves?
That idol's named IU, and she does it a few days before coming out with a new album. Thank god it's not her daily long-term diet. And no, it doesn't provide the nutrients one needs, and I definitely wouldn't recommend it.
How on earth did you find this year old thread to bump?
Aaaand bumped again! Only 3 months this time.0 -
I think I saw the video that OP discovered the diet from. So funny and sadly probably true. I have a Korean friend who said that Kpop stars are basically like indentured servants and are forced to starve to look the way they do.0
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