Gwyneth Paltrow has gotten out of hand. No matter how marked her abs are, no matter how much she presumes to have, today, a better ass than at age 20 and no matter how much we insist, in the media, on putting her as an example of fifty cannon ('mea culpa', once again), the American actress is to 'make him look'. And worst of all is not that she believes what she says, it is that, enthroned as one of the global muses of well-being, her theories penetrate many people who, without weighing the risks, blindly embrace them in search of that eternal freshness that she embodies.

It all blew up following a talk that the founder of Goop had with Dr. Will Cole in an episode of the podcast 'The Art of Being Well', during which, she revealed her meticulous daily wellness routine.

What is it about that routine that has raised so many blisters? Well, the truth, so little that it is incompatible with life: for 'breakfast', a coffee (in this way, the actress confessed, she manages to keep her blood sugar levels stable); For 'lunch', a bone broth and for 'dinner', a plate of lots of vegetables(so it fits the paleo diet, he says). The thing does not stop here because, between the meal and the last intake of the day, Paltrow trains for an hour with Tracy Anderson (anyone who has tried her sessions knows that they are strenuous) to then get 30 minutes in the sauna.

So far, her recipe to 'be well' that, honestly, seems absolutely impossible to sustain, unless she puts up to macaroni (for say, a hydrate of rapid absorption that, surely, she would never take in public) secretly, even more so if you take into account that the Oscar-winning interpreter has never hidden her fondness for good wine and what is third.

Perplexed by her eating plan, in the United States, they compare her diet to that of an 'almond mom', a term that designates a middle-aged woman who eats very little and resorts to 'snacks', such as nuts, instead of full meals.

"Characters like Gwyneth Paltrow mistreat her body. And the problem is the power of conviction they exert on many people, especially young people, with all the derivations that all this entails. We speak, obviously, of eating disorders that she already has, "says the specialist in Nutrition María Amaro.

In his opinion, "a diet in which, in the morning, you have a coffee for breakfast, at noon you take a bone broth and what you have dinner is vegetables, without any carbohydrates and, in addition, you do a lot of physical activity plus sauna sessions, obviously, it is not healthy. "

Amaro emphasizes the importance of eating in a balanced way and everything. "It is suddenly removing the main source of energy for the body, which are carbohydrates, especially if you do sports. If we exercise, we can't do a diet that, like this one, doesn't even reach 500 calories a day."

He also reminds us, in case we had missed the detail, that "getting into a sauna, without having hardly eaten and, above all, if we are as thin as the actress, is to buy a ticket to have a championship voltage low".

There is no doubt that "this way of eating cannot bring us anything good: starving is not well-being."

This specialist declares herself "defender of intermittent fasting, not as a weight loss diet but for the benefits it entails as a nutritional strategy", but insists on the importance of "knowing how to do it correctly and, above all, of being guided by a specialist who explains how, why and for what purpose. The actress has neither feet nor head."

What Paltrow promulgates is so crazy, that "I doubt that it will actually do it, because it seems incompatible with life." And the big problem is not her, she emphasizes, but those who follow her. "I am hallucinating with the increase in cases with eating disorders that come to the consultation. I have patients of all ages, even sexagenarians."

For Isabel Serrano-Rosa, psychologist and director of EnPositivoSí, there is no doubt that models like those embodied by Gwyneth Paltrow 'feed' a toxic relationship with food: "These diets that propose to endure a long time without eating or 'negotiate' with ourselves what we take and what we do not and then get out of control and turn purple, are based on the intrinsic functioning of eating disorders."

All this, he continues, "creates very powerful alternations that go against our own nature. Food, like relationships or just breathing, is life and involves balance."

This psychologist stresses that "eating should be conceived as a time to take care of ourselves, to protect ourselves" and, like María Amaro, testifies to the alarming increase in "cases of anorexia and bulimia, which occurs even in children under 10 years of age, and that become chronic, around 20 when, until now, This used to happen in your 30s and 40s." So jokes, the fair ones, and, with the food, none.


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