The Dangerous Dieting fad Sweeping the Nation

  It has come to my attention, of recent, just how damaging the severe pressure placed on our generation is becoming. I browse certain media platforms and see girls as young as my little sister (14) are now causing themselves irreversible damage just to look like a Kardashian offspring, its ridiculous! Public figures should be setting a lasting example, not influencing the youth of today into self-implemented mutations.  I don't know how many of you follow the news, but today it has come to my attention yet another girl has passed away as a direct result of body image. On Sunday 12th April, 21 year-old Eloise Aimee Parry started a course of diet pills she purchased over the internet, later that day she was dead. Eloise had consumed a lethal dose of the drug Dinitrophenol, known as DNP.

  Dinitrophenol was first introduced as a herbicide and fungicide, later being launched as a slimming aid in the U.S in the 1930s: the product was removed from the market in 1938, due to severe side-effects. Despite the ban put in place by the U.S Food and Drug Administration, the supplement can still be found predominantly online, marketed under different names in affiliation with weight-loss aid. DNP is a highly toxic industrial chemical which has slipped into the market due to insufficient knowledge of the devastating affects on the human body. The drug works by ameliorating your metabolism: it makes your muscles burn faster, burn energy and release heat. Whilst your heart races faster, your temperature begins to rise until your body is in an irreversible frenzy. There is also nothing doctors can do to extract the drug from a patient's system, and therefore must let the product 'run its course' as the human body deteriorates.

  DNP can lead to a combination of dangerous side-effects such as increased heart rate, profuse sweating and faster than normal breathing, which will inevitably lead to fatality. The product has been linked to 62 deaths worldwide, and welfare agencies are urging the consumer to steer clear of supplements containing the formula, and any diet product that advertise guaranteed weight loss without diet and exercise; even prescribed weight loss aids carry the risk of side-effects. long-term weight loss depends on making lifestyle changes, such as adopting a healthier diet and engaging in regular physical activity.

  So many of my friends are trying innovative ways to slim down this summer, and I'm urging them, and you, to take caution whilst purchasing. Instant gratification is often false advertising, and could become life threatening, as it was in the case of Eloise. Try to embrace the individuality you are blessed with, rather than conforming to an ideology created by the mass media. Be safe and invest your time in those who love your imperfections.

Melanie
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for more information on the case mentioned in my post please go to: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3049672/Toxic-diet-pills-killed-Eloise-bought-web-just-70p-Unscrupulous-dealers-offering-day-delivery-try-buy-samples.html