2020年4月之前，坦尼娅·扎克博特似乎拥有了一切。她是一个富有的Instagram影响者，在帕克大街有一套价值2200万美元的复式公寓，一个英俊潇洒的丈夫在房地产行业工作，还有三个健康的孩子。她还是一名注册营养师，也是一家名为“F-Factor Diet”（F代表纤维）的减肥帝国的所有者。

另一个Instagram的影响者Emily Gellis Lande开始发布匿名用户的截图，这些匿名用户说他们在节食方面有过不好的经历，这个帝国因此受到了抨击。这个高纤维、低蛋白的项目以“多吃碳水化合物，多出去吃饭，多喝酒，少锻炼”为口号，似乎涉及到很多蛋白粉和蛋白棒。以前的客户声称这些产品让他们得了荨麻疹和皮疹，有些人说他们最终住进了医院。

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In honor of #national*******preventionday I would like to ask my followers to please c***ider making a donation to NAMI, the national alliance on mental health. I have suffered with anxiety all my life. It's debilitating, it's dark, it's lonely. The fact that a company called "F Factor" most recently sent their cyber trolls to dig up dirt on my mental health is by far the most despicable act I've ever witnessed in both my professional and personal life. Tanya Zuckerbrot has gas lighted 10,000 plus victims on @todayshow and on her Instagram lives. Any person who tries to blackmail someone over their struggle with mental health deserves to go down on the wrong side of history. I know many of you have suffered alone. I have learned these last few weeks how dark it can be to develop disordered eating and how sad and lonely you felt. Since the founder will not apologize to you I can only promise that most people are good in this world and there are SO many wonderful people out there who can offer a helping hand. My heart goes out to you. Anyone who donates to NAMI send me a email to [email protected] - we will automatically enter you into an amazing raffle. It could be $1! It all counts. Sending you all my love! #mentalhealthawareness

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今年7月，匿名Instagram账户开始出现更多来自前F-Factor客户的索赔，盖利斯继续发帖。扎克博特在Instagram直播上说她被网络欺负了。Gellis发布了一条回复，暗示扎克博特正在给客户施放毒气。

据知情人透露，现在，扎克博特的法律团队已经向在Instagram上“诽谤”节食的人发出了停止和停止信。她还反复指出，盖利斯没有营养背景，不应该带她去做这项工作。Gellis则开始发布比佛利山庄明星Teddi Mellencamp的《真正的家庭主妇》中的一份599美元的食谱，她说她是在“推销厌食症”

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Salty - eat under 600 calories a day. Workout 7 days a week { CARDIO } - daily weigh in photos to coaches - berated if the scale tips up, EVER! "What happened overnight to make you gain lb!?" - Send photos of every meal to coaches who have 0 medical or fitness training aside from Teddi Mellincamp telling them they have a gold star as an accountability coach. No protein. Literal starvation. Yeah, that's a NO FROM ME DAWG {voice of Randy Jackson} - selling anorexia ain't cute - it's 2020. #AllInByTeddi #NoThanks

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这场纷争凸显了减肥影响者的局限性，他们的成功是建立在任何人都可以变瘦的神话之上的。虽然方法不同，但核心思想始终是一样的：如果你遵循这种饮食，喝这种蛋白粉，吃这种吧，你就能拥有你在屏幕上看到的人的瘦腹肌和健美的肱二头肌。

它还显示了匿名Instagram账户的缺点，近年来，这些账户被用来叫出公司、坏老板和大学。虽然这些叙述对于让掌权者负起责任很重要，但它们也使听众无法理解谁是他们主张的幕后黑手。对于减肥来说，这个问题尤其棘手，因为对一个人有效的东西对另一个人可能有问题。

Gellis在Instagram上匿名的危险也随之而来，她发布了两个**的账户，称F-Factor饮食导致她们流产。《纽约邮报》和《炼油厂》29日收集了这些账户，但事实证明，其中一个说法是骗局。

报道出来后，前Instagram影响者艾莉森·布雷特施耐德（Alison Brettschneider）发电子邮件给扎克博特，说她编造了这个报道。“这是一个彻头彻尾的谎言，”她在《****》报道的一次交流中写道。“我从来没用过坦尼娅的产品。”

布雷特施奈德说，看到扎克博特受到匿名消息来源的攻击后，她有动力发表言论。早在2018年，她就成了Instagram点名的对象——一个以种族主义和白人脆弱性为中心的主题。（她暗示，她欺骗盖利斯的决定源于这段经历，尽管她的表妹阿曼达·卡普是F-Factor的首席营养师。）

扎克博特在Instagram Live上发表了自己的回应，质疑盖利斯的可信度。F-Factor Instagram账户还发布了一份回复，驳斥了Gellis Instagram上关于含有铅的蛋白粉的说法，这种蛋白粉会让人生病。

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我怀疑有人在Instagram上先令减肥，部分原因是我对他们的信息非常敏感。我改变了生活方式，离最大限度地健身还差一步，这种想法非常诱人，我在Instagram上发现的胶原蛋白棒和植物粉上花了一大笔令人尴尬的钱。我知道这不是健康的工作原理。但在感情上，我总是希望我错了。

这就是饮食工业综合体的养料。它给人们，主要是**，一个不断奋斗的目标。因为这个目标永远不可能实现，所以它利润丰厚，引人入胜。如果你在一种饮食上失败了，总会有另一种——新的影响者在叫卖新的饮食方法。Instagram仅仅是一种最新的消费谎言的方式。

出版后，F-Factor的律师和发言人Lanny J.Davis发表了以下声明：

F-Factor has had hundreds of thousands of customers and clients use the F-Factor diet and products safely and as prescribed for good health and a nutritious diet. The F-Factor Diet book was first published over 14 years ago, and it has been endorsed by countless nutritionists and physicians since. The F-Factor diet is 100% safe, but the company recognizes that it’s not for everyone. People with whey allergies or sensitivities can experience rashes and hives as a side effect, and if you digest too much fiber too quickly, a side effect of that is gastric distress. That is why the F Factor diet prescribes introducing fiber slowly into your system, and the company will always work with its customers to identify and resolve any issue they’re having to ensure they can use its products and program safely.

更新时间：9月21日，美国东部时间下午3:50:00:F-Factor发表评论更新文章。