Teresa Tapp facebook posts

[cristinalatina]

Teresa Tapp is a fan of holistic health care. I respect that.

However, some links she uploads on her FB page state that lemon and baking soda are more powerful than chemo, root canals are dangerous to life and how people have overcome lung cancer by drinking wine with friends and reconnecting with their faith.

I am disturbed by these posts. I find them dangerous, vague and misleading. Should I unfriend?

[topfitmama]

That sounds like awful advice, Cristina. Unfortunately, anyone can post anything on Facebook and elsewhere on the internet, which just confirms that we need to use discernment and not accept all advice from one person regardless of how much we respect and trust them in their field of expertise. If your body is sick, find a doctor. Teresa Tapp is a fitness instructor.

[Demeris]

Oh, Christina--I'm disturbed by what you report of Teresa's FB posts, too.

I'm not on FB, but I know she occasionally gives nutrition/supplement advice that just sounds wonky (and 15 years ago, her God Made/Man Made diet put 30 pounds on me in 3 months!!!).

I love her workouts, but--except for the pyruval (sp?) glycine--I ignore her supplement advice.

I don't know enough about FB to know whether you can selectively ignore/set up a firewall for her dumber posts and just get updated on the sales or releases of new DVDs, but if those ill-informed posts continued, I would figure out how not to get them.

In fact, those FB updates you refer to in your post suggest that these aren't even based in sound holistic health care.

[Nuggie's Auntie]

Are you 'personal' friends with her, or does she have a fan page? You can hide a friend on your news feed without 'unfriending' him or her, which I have done with a couple of people whose posts I found objectionable for various reasons, then just check the wall from time to time to see if anything new is going on, but you'll still see all her posts...

If it's a fan page, I think you'd just have to 'unlike' it.

[KarenP]

Originally Posted by cristinalatina

I am disturbed by these posts. I find them dangerous, vague and misleading. Should I unfriend?

Yes. UGH!

[Sue B]

Originally Posted by KarenP

Yes. UGH!

Absolutely. I unfollowed fitness people who put up links to Mercola, Food Babe and similar garbage, or any body-shaming. Who needs that stuff.

[eam531]

Originally Posted by cristinalatina

Teresa Tapp is a fan of holistic health care. I respect that.

However, some links she uploads on her FB page state that lemon and baking soda are more powerful than chemo, root canals are dangerous to life and how people have overcome lung cancer by drinking wine with friends and reconnecting with their faith.

I am disturbed by these posts. I find them dangerous, vague and misleading. Should I unfriend?

Unfriend her. I think what she's saying is grossly irresponsible, and I am very much in favor of holistic and non-invasive procedures myself. She's an exercise teacher, and should stick to that. I am heartily tired of fitness instructors and yoga instructors (and there are MANY), who seem to want to control many aspects of their students' lives--what they eat and drink, what they wear, what sort of medical treatments to use, and so on. That is one of the reasons I got so turned off from kundalini yoga, for example.

This is why I do not "friend" instructors on Facebook. They aren't my friends, and that way I can enjoy their workouts without knowing about some of the off-putting things they post on Facebook. Because when I do hear about some of these off-putting things, I don't buy their workouts and get rid of any workouts of theirs I may have already bought. I will not subsidize people who have strong views that make me viscerally recoil.

[Vintage VFer]

Originally Posted by cristinalatina

Teresa Tapp is a fan of holistic health care. I respect that.

However, some links she uploads on her FB page state that lemon and baking soda are more powerful than chemo, root canals are dangerous to life and how people have overcome lung cancer by drinking wine with friends and reconnecting with their faith.

I am disturbed by these posts. I find them dangerous, vague and misleading. Should I unfriend?

I have met Teresa in person. It was not a fun experience. She gives me the creeps.

[topfitmama]

Originally Posted by eam531

This is why I do not "friend" instructors on Facebook. They aren't my friends, and that way I can enjoy their workouts without knowing about some of the off-putting things they post on Facebook. Because when I do hear about some of these off-putting things, I don't buy their workouts and get rid of any workouts of theirs I may have already bought. I will not subsidize people who have strong views that make me viscerally recoil.

Exactly. I have liked many instructors' pages, but after a while I will unfollow and finally unlike them. So far, none of them have managed to not irritate me somehow
I only friended one instructor and I did so by mistake. I unfriended her a few months later because I don't really know her or want to know about her private life.

[JackieB]

I would definitely unfriend her. I am also an advocate of holistic medicine and being your own health care advocate. I think that any fitness person giving health care advice like this is irresponsible.

I did T-Tapp years ago and had enough one day...couldn't do another workout if you paid me. I know her workouts are effective for many VFers and I'm glad for that. We're lucky to have so many options.