It is a flood of reports that concern the authorities. In France, food excesses are gaining ground. Movement of self-medication, defiance of classical medicine, conspiracy theory on social networks are the breeding ground for their success.
Thus, in 2018 and in the first half of 2019, the interdepartmental mission to fight against sectarian excesses (Miviludes) announces that it has registered 161 reports on extreme diets on the 2,800 it receives each year. A high figure, according to them.
Originally, concerned citizens or relatives of victims. Then, faced with the growing popularity of the motions of raw eating and long-lasting fasts, Miviludes raises a cry of warning. First in his sights, a certain Thierry Casasnovas, which is the subject of more than 400 reports since 2016 including more than 250 in 2017, after petitions against him.
A record. The most popular videos of this youtubeur, in full swing, which began in 2011, reach 500,000 to 2 million views! "Therapist", without a medical degree, it implies that a raw diet, based on fruits, vegetables and fresh juice, can cure cancer or autism. This change of diet would have even allowed him to cure "his tuberculosis, his hepatitis, pancreatitis and his addiction"!
"He calls to replace the drugs by crudivorism"
Of course, everyone is free to eat whatever he wants. "But the problem is that he goes so far as to call chemotherapy death to the rat! He calls to replace the drugs by the crudivorism and not in complement, there is the red line. We are talking about loss of luck, "warns Audrey Keysers of Miviludes.
Behind their screen, the most sensitive to his speech are vulnerable people, already sick, facing heavy treatment, in search of hope, a natural solution. "In his words, there is always a scientific background that he perverts completely to make it stick to his ideology," says François Morel, surgeon oncologist in Rouen, who demolishes the argument of Casasnovas in videos.
Questioned, Thierry Casasnovas is surprised by the number of reports against him: "400? ! If it's because people's condition has deteriorated with rawness, I'm going to question myself. But if it is to say that I am a guru, I have nothing to do. Regarding his recommendations on eating raw and stopping treatments to heal, Thierry Casasnovas recognizes "maybe a little zeal in its early days in 2011 but I have evolved," he promises.
As for his video where he says that a member can push back by drinking vegetable juice, he admits "an error". "In terms of marketing, we talked a lot about myself, like what, to say some nonsense, it made me know! No, I am not a religious at all believed. Anyway, there is no complaint against me. And he says true. "People who are being fooled do not dare to denounce it. They are often ashamed, "says Audrey Keysers.
A dozen deaths
Other dietary excesses also worry the Miviludes as extreme fasts, without a medical setting. "A recent phenomenon," according to Anne Josso, his secretary general. Pranatherapy or Respirianism, which has 40,000 followers worldwide, goes even further. His concept? One can live without food, just with "a cosmic diet".
A practice with sectarian excesses encouraged during introductory internships of sometimes 21 days. "We discover every week in France," laments Anne Josso, quantifying the number of deaths known to "a dozen". Several investigations are in progress. Contacted, the Directorate General of Health plans to "regulate the promotion of any type of dieting on the Internet" but only "in the coming years".
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