14 DAY TRIAL // One of the hottest and most troubling weight loss fads right now is the so-called feeding tube diet, or the K-E Diet, which sees women (mostly) being fed through their nose for 10 days. Kathie Lee and Hoda are now being lambasted for making fun of the diet.
As we also informed you yesterday, the diet is very popular with brides who are literally dying to fit into their dream wedding dress, mostly because it promises a 20 pound (9.07 kg) loss in no more than 10 days.
On The Today Show, Kathie Lee and Hoda started talking about the diet and how it was stupid and, at the same time, very risky, as the video below will confirm (talk of the diet starts at the 5.17 minute mark).
“That tube has to stay down, there could be some infections who knows what the other problems are with it, but you’re carrying around a bag all the time. And if it gets knocked out, what if you fall down,” Hoda says laughing.
She's likely imagining what would happen if you fall down and the tube comes out of the nose, which is precisely what Kathie is also thinking, though slightly in a different scenario.
“A nightmare, just flops out of your nose in the middle of the night... you’ve got to think these things through,” she says.
Ever since the segment aired, which, as you can see, is only in reference to the feeding tube diet, the duo's Facebook page was flooded with criticism from mothers of sick children and patients who think they deserve an apology.
As they see it, Hoda and Kathie did nothing more than to help boost the discrimination that already exists among those who depend on a feeding tube with their life, by talking about one as if it were the grossest thing in the world.
“I don’t think you realize how many individuals in the USA right now have a feeding tube. The numbers are staggering. Patients in the ICU, NICU, PICU, and Oncology departments all have the possibility of having a feeding tube,” one commenter writes.
“I hope so because you will see your ratings fall I am sure. I am sure you have a medical resource on your show… they need more education and so does your hosts Kathie Lee and Hoda,” adds the same.
More join in the conversation and agree: the two mocked patients dependent on feeding tubes and, as such, must come up with an apology as soon as possible if they don't want their image tarnished for ever.
As of now, Hoda and Lee are yet to address the public outcry in any way.