In another example of so-called medical professionals deciding that it's acceptable to risk fat people's lives and quality of life to try to make us thin, the Fast Track study will quite literally starve 186 adolescents, ages 13-17.
Louise Adams, Clinical Psychologist and author of Untrapped, has written about this extensively, the basics are:
"The "Fast Track To Health" study is about to kick off in Sydney & Melbourne. The research team have a $1.2 million grant from the NH&MRC, and these funds are being used to put teenagers through a gruelling and prolonged semi starvation experiment.
Teens aged 13-17 are facing a horrifying experience: for an entire month they will be allowed just 800 calories a day. After that, for an entire YEAR of their lives, the kids will be starved for 3 days of the week, allowed only 600-700 calories a day"
Ruth Leach wrote a brilliant, extensively cited, point by point explanation of the short and long term dangers of this horror of a study, which was co-signed by 37 different professionals and sent to the Human Research Ethics Committee at Syndey Children's Hospital Network. You can read it here.
It should go without saying that starving kids is dangerous and unethical, but unfortunately it needs to be said:
Please consider adding your voice bysigning this petition created by Louise Adams.
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