Ms. Cynthia Robinson
Director of Publicity
Spartanburg County School
District 6
1390 Cavalier Way
Roebuck, SC 29376
April 18, 2014
Ms. Henderson,
I am reaching out to inform you about the questionable
activities one of your district employees is engaging in from district
property, during school hours. Ms. Tanya
Murphy, pictured below, who represents herself as a teacher, but appears to be
an aide, goes by the name “TannyRaw” on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
Ms. Murphy is a practitioner of the Low-Fat Raw Vegan and 80-10-10
diets. That is fine; however, she is not just a practitioner, she uses
social media to proselytize this lifestyle as this
article on Yahoo highlights.
The issue that I, and many others, have is that Ms. Murphy
dispenses nutritional and medical advice to those who view and comment on her
videos and photos. A particularly egregious instance of her dispensing medical advice
she is not qualified to give, is when she gave advice to a teenage girl who
admitted to a history of eating disorders (ED), and shared that her parents and
her dietitian did not want her practicing this way of eating as it is not
appropriate for someone in recovery from ED, that she should work to get
independent of her parents so she could pursue this lifestyle.
Eating disorders are biologically based mental illnesses
with the highest mortality rate of any mental illness—up to 20% without proper
treatment. With treatment that number drops to 2-3%. Eating disorders are not a
lifestyle choice. What Ms. Murphy does is tantamount to her encouraging a teen
undergoing chemotherapy to become independent and discontinue treatment. This
is not okay.
Ms. Murphy has repeatedly been asked to include a disclaimer
on her videos that she has no medical credentials and that the diet she is
promoting should not be undertaken by those under 18 and/or anyone with a
history of eating disorders should consult their physician before beginning
this diet. Ms. Murphy does not converse with adults that raise these questions,
though she frequently does converse with young, ill people to offer them
medical advice.
YouTube was concerned enough about the content of Ms.
Murphy’s videos that they shut her channel down temporarily for inappropriate
content. She subsequently pulled many videos and got the channel back up; we
did download and save some videos where as well as talking screenshots of her
comments and her filming from the classroom and would be happy to share those
with you.
Ms. Murphy posted this
video on her Youtube channel recently; in it she
directly addresses the efforts of those who have asked her to cease dispensing
medical advice to those with eating disorders. I encourage you to watch to the
very end as I find it shocking to see someone filming from a public school
Kindergarten classroom while talking about porn and using the phrase “hung like
a horse.” Here is a blog
where more information can be seen.
I understand that this is a personnel matter and while I
would appreciate an acknowledgement of receipt, I recognize you will not be
able to discuss personnel matters. I will be sending copies of this letter to
local media in your area, as well as alerting the local police to her habit of
videotaping herself while driving.
Thank you for your time.
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ReplyDeleteNobody likes a fault finder. You are a busy body who wishes to bring harm to the life and work of another individual. You should be ashamed of your conduct. Leave this poor woman alone, and consider working on your own shortcomings instead.
ReplyDeleteSeriously? You are not a warrior for eating disorders. You're very biased and are harming other's lives versus actually helping people. Fraudulent much?
ReplyDeleteI have met Tanya, Tammie, Tyner, she goes by several different names. She is a danger to people when it comes to their health. I am a RN, fitness & wellness coach & nutritionist, with licenses, Bachelor & Master degrees & over 20 years experience in weight loss, weight management & wellness. Where it may be fine for her to choose to eat & adapt a lifestyle as she has it is negligent to give medical advice to anyone regarding their diet & health. In addition, she has repeatedly provided false & misleading information regarding her credentials. Please people be warned, she is a Very dangerous individual!
ReplyDeleteNotice you posted as unknown which doesn't say much for who you think you are. Also would like to see a picture of you to see if you practice what you preach.
DeleteI've watched plenty of Tannyraw over the last few years... NEVER one time have I ever gotten the impression she is pushing anything on me. Guess what? Nobody is forcing me to watch her with my eyelids taped open. Furthermore, anyone with a true eating disorder looking to get better could only benefit from eating adequate calories and more plants.
ReplyDeleteWho gets in worse health by eating more plants? Oh, wait... let me ask a doctor who has next to zero experience or education on healing. Are you kidding? Then you contact the school she worked at!? It's like a Jerry Springer episode unfolding. Tanya was and is way too smart to be working as a teacher's aide anyways. Some people actually are free thinkers and don't choose to be indoctrinated into ways of thinking by other people who think they know something (or everything). Some people just work a job or many jobs to get a little money to pay bills and they do their actual life's work free of charge. So how about this. Let's all acknowledge that we have the free will to take what we want and to leave the rest. If someone is *really* worried about their young child getting on youtube to watch a woman who exudes health sharing with them how she healed herself then perhaps mommy and daddy need to take away the internet. There are actually people like Eugenia Cooney (who has about a million and a half more followers than Tannyraw) okay. So stop picking on the little guys. You seem to either be jealous or have a personal vendetta. Let it go. You are barking up the wrong tree.
I just discovered her yesterday and Tanya seems pretty harmless to me. Not many people can do what she does and she is doing it with pure dedication and diligence. She’s got a great talent and she’s using it. Based on what I’ve seen, her advice and knowledge are beyond amazing. Truly she is a person who is loving and wants to help people. She’s got a purpose , a calling to tell people that there is another way to live a healthy life aside from the same old narrative and I agree 100%. I believe everything she says comes from the heart and without knowing her personally, I would absolutely defend her honor and integrity to my last breath. The nosy Nellie who wrote this about her is only jealous and needs to desperately get a life! Comment by Cory Allan G from the great state of Pennsylvania
ReplyDeleteCory Allen - I agree and I am also from Pennsylvania...
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ReplyDeleteIt's late finding this act. At least, it's a thing to be familiar with that there are such events exist. I agree with your Blog and I will be back to inspect it more in the future so please keep up your act. יחסי ציבור תל אביב
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