Katherine-Elyse Blake warns that fad diets can lead to long-term weight gain
A model has set out to change the way women and young girls look at beauty and nutrition following London Fashion Week.
The model and dietary expert, Katherine-Elyse Blake has just launched BeautifullyNourished.com to promote long-term healthy eating over fad and yoyo diets.
Beautifully Nourished aims to give women and young girls free and unbiased advice about healthy eating, weight management and nutritional wellbeing.
The site also promotes the benefits of good nutrition as a path to healthier looking skin, hair and general well being. For her, we are all definitely what we eat.
Katherine-Elyse, 24 from London, who is a qualified nutritional expert, was concerned to see so many girls and young women becoming reliant on fad, yoyo and quick-fix diets.
She warns that fad diets can result in long-term weight gain, as when your body is starved, it slows down its metabolism to preserve energy.
And when you do go back to regular eating, the body will store more energy than before in case it comes under a similar type of crash diet again.
By practicing what she preaches, Katherine-Elyse has made it to the final 30 of the Miss Universe GB contest, which if victorious, will see her represent the UK in Donald Trump’s Miss Universe competition.
Katherine-Elyse said: “Every week there is a new fad diet on the market claiming to shed the pounds in a short space of time.
“Fad diets are not sustainable and this is how the diet creators profit. People see results on the diet but then resume to regular eating and even over eating.
“The weight returns and often reappears with a few extra pounds added. Individuals then go back on the same diet to see the same results.
“It is a vicious cycle, and one which is potentially dangerous for girls and young women to perceive as normal.
“Nevertheless, nutrition is not just about weight management. Our eating habits tend to be a great reflection of our lifestyle. And the reality is that how we look effects how we feel, our confidence and even our attitude to our daily life.”
However, it is not just nutrition in the UK that Katherine-Elyse is passionate about, she is determined to improve the quality of nutrition in the developing world to.
Katherine-Elyse wants to invest any future profits into combating famine and sub-standard nutrition in some of the world’s poorest countries.
For more information about Katherine-Elyse Blake and Beautifully Nourished, visit her website: www.beautifullynourished.com
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