{"id":12913,"date":"2022-09-28T06:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T05:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/?p=12913"},"modified":"2023-02-26T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T22:30:50","slug":"its-a-challenging-industry-to-regulate-the-training-of-fitness-influencers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/its-a-challenging-industry-to-regulate-the-training-of-fitness-influencers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s a challenging industry”: the training of fitness influencers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Only 16.4% of fitness influencers have qualifications, despite the fact that more than half claim to be fitness experts. Is there a need for further regulations and training for social media influencers?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The memories are still so clear: the never-ending beep of the monitor, the potent smell of disinfectant, the white clinical light, and the coldness of the IV drip stuck in her arm. She remembers it so vividly that it seems as though she is experiencing it all again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a constant cycle of losing and gaining weight, Urvashi Lad has struggled with accepting her body her entire life. But her wake-up call came when she ended up in the hospital after dealing with bulimia, an eating disorder that made her severely ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urvashi first noticed a change in her body image when she began gaining weight while she was at university. This led to an unhealthy obsession with overindulging in food, which caused her to reach a size 24 until she resorted to making herself sick. \u201cI was really overweight and quite depressed at university and then I had bulimia after I left so I lost a lot of weight through binging and purging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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