2020年4月之前，坦尼婭·扎克博特似乎擁有了一切。她是一個富有的Instagram影響者，在帕克大街有一套價值2200萬美元的複式公寓，一個英俊瀟灑的丈夫在房地產行業工作，還有三個健康的孩子。她還是一名註冊營養師，也是一家名為“F-Factor Diet”（F代表纖維）的減肥帝國的所有者。

另一個Instagram的影響者Emily Gellis Lande開始釋出匿名使用者的截圖，這些匿名使用者說他們在節食方面有過不好的經歷，這個帝國因此受到了抨擊。這個高纖維、低蛋白的專案以“多吃碳水化合物，多出去吃飯，多喝酒，少鍛鍊”為口號，似乎涉及到很多蛋白粉和蛋白棒。以前的客戶聲稱這些產品讓他們得了蕁麻疹和皮疹，有些人說他們最終住進了醫院。

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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賬戶開始出現更多來自前F-Factor客戶的索賠，蓋利斯繼續發帖。扎克博特在Instagram直播上說她被網路欺負了。Gellis釋出了一條回覆，暗示扎克博特正在給客戶施放毒氣。

據知情人透露，現在，扎克博特的法律團隊已經向在Instagram上“誹謗”節食的人發出了停止和停止信。她還反覆指出，蓋利斯沒有營養背景，不應該帶她去做這項工作。Gellis則開始釋出比佛利山莊明星Teddi Mellencamp的《真正的家庭主婦》中的一份599美元的食譜，她說她是在“推銷厭食症”

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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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這場紛爭凸顯了減肥影響者的侷限性，他們的成功是建立在任何人都可以變瘦的神話之上的。雖然方法不同，但核心思想始終是一樣的：如果你遵循這種飲食，喝這種蛋白粉，吃這種吧，你就能擁有你在螢幕上看到的人的瘦腹肌和健美的肱二頭肌。

它還顯示了匿名Instagram賬戶的缺點，近年來，這些賬戶被用來叫出公司、壞老闆和大學。雖然這些敘述對於讓掌權者負起責任很重要，但它們也使聽眾無法理解誰是他們主張的幕後黑手。對於減肥來說，這個問題尤其棘手，因為對一個人有效的東西對另一個人可能有問題。

Gellis在Instagram上匿名的危險也隨之而來，她釋出了兩個**的賬戶，稱F-Factor飲食導致她們流產。《紐約郵報》和《煉油廠》29日收集了這些賬戶，但事實證明，其中一個說法是騙局。

報道出來後，前Instagram影響者艾莉森·佈雷特施耐德（Alison Brettschneider）發電子郵件給扎克博特，說她編造了這個報道。“這是一個徹頭徹尾的謊言，”她在《****》報道的一次交流中寫道。“我從來沒用過坦尼婭的產品。”

佈雷特施奈德說，看到扎克博特受到匿名訊息來源的攻擊後，她有動力發表言論。早在2018年，她就成了Instagram點名的物件——一個以種族主義和白人脆弱性為中心的主題。（她暗示，她欺騙蓋利斯的決定源於這段經歷，儘管她的表妹阿曼達·卡普是F-Factor的首席營養師。）

扎克博特在Instagram Live上發表了自己的迴應，質疑蓋利斯的可信度。F-Factor Instagram賬戶還發布了一份回覆，駁斥了Gellis Instagram上關於含有鉛的蛋白粉的說法，這種蛋白粉會讓人生病。

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我懷疑有人在Instagram上先令減肥，部分原因是我對他們的資訊非常敏感。我改變了生活方式，離最大限度地健身還差一步，這種想法非常誘人，我在Instagram上發現的膠原蛋白棒和植物粉上花了一大筆令人尷尬的錢。我知道這不是健康的工作原理。但在感情上，我總是希望我錯了。

這就是飲食工業綜合體的養料。它給人們，主要是**，一個不斷奮鬥的目標。因為這個目標永遠不可能實現，所以它利潤豐厚，引人入勝。如果你在一種飲食上失敗了，總會有另一種——新的影響者在叫賣新的飲食方法。Instagram僅僅是一種最新的消費謊言的方式。

出版後，F-Factor的律師和發言人Lanny J.Davis發表了以下宣告：

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.

更新時間：9月21日，美國東部時間下午3:50:00:F-Factor發表評論更新文章。