Forums are my best source to find info and real advices by other people. They are a very democratic mean to help you in your diet and give you all the support to achieve your goals.
Recently i read a research from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston about the value of the Diet forums to support internet users and give true advices.
Before you read this article, you could read my last post about the Best diet forums with a little review of them.
The researchers had evaluated the quality of posts in the forums to verify the respect of the clinical guidelines. They used a retrospective analysis of messages posted to 18 Internet weight loss forums during 1 month in 2006.
Here the results:
- On 654 provisions of advice – 56 (8.6%) were erroneous and 19 of these 56 (34%) were subsequently corrected.
- 43 (6.6%) provisions of advice were harmful, and 12 of these 43 (28%) were subsequently corrected.
Highly activity forums have a best range of correct responses
The forums have been identified by typing in Google this query and have been taken the first 50 search results.
On of the forum they mentioned is Sparkpeople with more then 1.000 messages a month.
Here the list of forums they used to test with the number of messages a month.
- 3fatchicks 137
- About 129
- Calorie-Count 2758
- CalorieKing 2135
- Calories Per Hour 416
- Featherish 243
- HealthBoards 942
- HealthyWeightForum 223
- MedHelp 218
- SparkPeople 9423
- Tbfinc 33
- Weight-loss.Fitness 603
- Weight-loss-forums 160
