Ashy Bines' Clean Eating Diet Plan one of the three worst diets in the country: Dietitians Association of Australia
Ashy Bines. Pic: Supplied Source: Supplied
AUSTRALIA'S peak nutrition body has slammed Gold Coaster Ashy Bines' Clean Eating Diet Plan as one of the worst diets in the country.
The challenge has made the top three, along with the Lemon Detox Diet and SkinnyMe Tea, said the Dietitians Association of Australia.
But the Gold Coast businesswoman has defended her online diet plan and said it was crazy to compare her real food guidelines to programs that promoted liquid diets.
Ms Bines said her diet plan included a comprehensive fitness program and had proven results.
More than 200 accredited practising dietitians took part in an online survey run by the DAA on the diets to be avoided in 2014.
Among a list of 11 popular diets, Lemon Detox Diet came out the worst for the third year running, with more than two- thirds of dietitians voting against it.
Ashy Bines' online Clean Eating Diet Plan received votes from 32 per cent of experts, while SkinnyMe tea took 55 per cent.
The survey did not refer to the popular Ashy Bines Bikini Body Challenge - which is a separate group fitness training company that provides a face-to-face program rather than an online diet plan.
DAA spokeswoman and dietitian Melanie McGrice said the problem with fad diets was they were all about restrictive eating patterns that could not be sustained long-term and could undermine health.
"What you lose on detox diets ... is usually fluid, healthy gut bacteria, electrolytes - all the things to keep your body healthy, rather than fat," Ms McGrice said.
Ms McGrice said diets such as the Ashy Bines diet plan often demonised certain foods and made it hard to meet nutritional needs.
Ms Bines said her team could not understand what the DAA was referring to and her guidelines gave reasonable advice such as eating chicken breast over chicken mince.
"There's nothing in there I'm demonising," she said.
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Ashy Bines. Pic: Supplied Source: Supplied
AUSTRALIA'S peak nutrition body has slammed Gold Coaster Ashy Bines' Clean Eating Diet Plan as one of the worst diets in the country.
The challenge has made the top three, along with the Lemon Detox Diet and SkinnyMe Tea, said the Dietitians Association of Australia.
But the Gold Coast businesswoman has defended her online diet plan and said it was crazy to compare her real food guidelines to programs that promoted liquid diets.
Ms Bines said her diet plan included a comprehensive fitness program and had proven results.
More than 200 accredited practising dietitians took part in an online survey run by the DAA on the diets to be avoided in 2014.
Among a list of 11 popular diets, Lemon Detox Diet came out the worst for the third year running, with more than two- thirds of dietitians voting against it.
Ashy Bines' online Clean Eating Diet Plan received votes from 32 per cent of experts, while SkinnyMe tea took 55 per cent.
The survey did not refer to the popular Ashy Bines Bikini Body Challenge - which is a separate group fitness training company that provides a face-to-face program rather than an online diet plan.
DAA spokeswoman and dietitian Melanie McGrice said the problem with fad diets was they were all about restrictive eating patterns that could not be sustained long-term and could undermine health.
"What you lose on detox diets ... is usually fluid, healthy gut bacteria, electrolytes - all the things to keep your body healthy, rather than fat," Ms McGrice said.
Ms McGrice said diets such as the Ashy Bines diet plan often demonised certain foods and made it hard to meet nutritional needs.
Ms Bines said her team could not understand what the DAA was referring to and her guidelines gave reasonable advice such as eating chicken breast over chicken mince.
"There's nothing in there I'm demonising," she said.
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