What Is The Best Diet Plan?
Your Guide To Weight Loss Websites
Diet.com, NY Times, About.com, Dieting Review.....More Website Summaries
These are summary reviews of popular diet
sites. Hopefully you can save the hundreds of hours we invested to
summarize these so you can find the best fit ,for your weight loss
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Diet.com ***
34 Points of 50
www.diet.com
Diet.com is classified as a "Personality" diet website because it focuses on personality traits to determine the right diet for each visitor. There is a 7 page personality test offered as a part of this. Unfortunately, it asks questions that almost any woman who has weight or food issues would answer the same way. It would be easier to ask three or four simple questions such as do you cook, or do you prefer to eat three large meals or five small ones. Answers such as these would rule out the majority of diet plans not suitable.
The positive thing about Diet.com is that really focus of the community aspect of dieting. Being over weight is a lonely business and most of us with “an inappropriate relationship with food” tend to isolate and eat in secret and shame. Diet.com offers visitors the opportunity to Blog about their experiences and to join support groups. This is a big plus and encourages return visits.
The site is chucked full of videos, audio, pop-ups, animation, and navigation buttons, so if you don’t like to be blasted with images, you won’t care for the site of the future approach. There are brief reviews of current diets, recipes, exercises, quizzes, experts in all things diet, and lots of flash and dash. They’re pretty light on the research side but they do work hard to get visitors to feel like they are not alone in the weight battle.
Love To Know ***
29 points of 50
http://lovetoknow.com
Love To Know is one of the popular “how to” sites that encompasses, a variety of topics including business, entertainment, family, home, garden, technology, shopping, travel, and health and beauty. The diet portion of the site gives an exhaustive amount of information. It covers almost all available diets but we got the feeling that its purpose was to promote the diets with links to individual dieting sites and lots of advertising.
We found it particularly disturbing that the site seemed to promote the use of 5-HTP without mentioning its link to causing eosinophilic myalgia syndrome, a serious blood and muscle disorder.
The site does promote healthy eating and does discourage crash dieting and severely limiting calorie intake. If you’re into reading many, many diet articles and information, we suggest using one of the more scientific oriented websites such as Medicine Net at http://www.medicinenet.com/weight_loss/article.htm
New York Times/Health **
23 Points of 50
health.nytimes.com/pages/health/
OK, we know this site is ranked #5 on Google under “diet” but we don’t know why. Yes, it is the NY Times is a venerable paper, but if you can figure out any consistent diet message, go for it. There are article about fitness and health, but it’s a confusing site to sort out if you’re just looking for diet information. Perhaps if you catch it on the right day there is a diet focus. But since Google seems to be attracted to rating sites whose content changes often, this one may change a little too often for any consistent message.
Dieting Review ***
32 points of 50
www.dieting-review.com
This is the number #5 on Yahoo and again, it’s not quite ready for prime time. Yahoo seems to give a break to the little guy, which we appreciate since we’re one of those. However, sometimes the little guy doesn’t have all their pages working, which is the case here.
Dieting Review promises that they offer, “all the weight loss information you need.” That would be great, but a we believe that you’ll need a little more that a brief synopsis of the current diets to successfully lose weight. However, the reviews are to the point without prejudice and ads are limited to the standard Google column so they’re not intrusive. Unfortunately, we found many pages listed that weren’t found when we clicked on them so we got the impression that it’s still a work in progress. We do like the fact that the reviews were to the point and pointed out the weaknesses as well as the strengths
About.com –Weight loss **
25 Points of 50
http://weightloss.about.com
This site is part of a larger “About.com” site that looks slick and corporate. It seems the weight loss section is run by a lady named Jennifer R. Scott since all the articles we found were by her. Nothing earthshaking and no new information. Just the standard drinks water, exercise, start a food diary, watch your calories.
If you were looking for current research or helpful finding, you probably won’t find them here. You will find a ton of advertising and pictures of a very plump Jennifer making you wonder why the diet guru isn’t following her own sage advice or maybe a kinder take would be, here’s someone who really understands how hard losing weight can be.
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Diet.com ***
34 Points of 50
www.diet.com
Diet.com is classified as a "Personality" diet website because it focuses on personality traits to determine the right diet for each visitor. There is a 7 page personality test offered as a part of this. Unfortunately, it asks questions that almost any woman who has weight or food issues would answer the same way. It would be easier to ask three or four simple questions such as do you cook, or do you prefer to eat three large meals or five small ones. Answers such as these would rule out the majority of diet plans not suitable.
The positive thing about Diet.com is that really focus of the community aspect of dieting. Being over weight is a lonely business and most of us with “an inappropriate relationship with food” tend to isolate and eat in secret and shame. Diet.com offers visitors the opportunity to Blog about their experiences and to join support groups. This is a big plus and encourages return visits.
The site is chucked full of videos, audio, pop-ups, animation, and navigation buttons, so if you don’t like to be blasted with images, you won’t care for the site of the future approach. There are brief reviews of current diets, recipes, exercises, quizzes, experts in all things diet, and lots of flash and dash. They’re pretty light on the research side but they do work hard to get visitors to feel like they are not alone in the weight battle.
Love To Know ***
29 points of 50
http://lovetoknow.com
Love To Know is one of the popular “how to” sites that encompasses, a variety of topics including business, entertainment, family, home, garden, technology, shopping, travel, and health and beauty. The diet portion of the site gives an exhaustive amount of information. It covers almost all available diets but we got the feeling that its purpose was to promote the diets with links to individual dieting sites and lots of advertising.
We found it particularly disturbing that the site seemed to promote the use of 5-HTP without mentioning its link to causing eosinophilic myalgia syndrome, a serious blood and muscle disorder.
The site does promote healthy eating and does discourage crash dieting and severely limiting calorie intake. If you’re into reading many, many diet articles and information, we suggest using one of the more scientific oriented websites such as Medicine Net at http://www.medicinenet.com/weight_loss/article.htm
New York Times/Health **
23 Points of 50
health.nytimes.com/pages/health/
OK, we know this site is ranked #5 on Google under “diet” but we don’t know why. Yes, it is the NY Times is a venerable paper, but if you can figure out any consistent diet message, go for it. There are article about fitness and health, but it’s a confusing site to sort out if you’re just looking for diet information. Perhaps if you catch it on the right day there is a diet focus. But since Google seems to be attracted to rating sites whose content changes often, this one may change a little too often for any consistent message.
Dieting Review ***
32 points of 50
www.dieting-review.com
This is the number #5 on Yahoo and again, it’s not quite ready for prime time. Yahoo seems to give a break to the little guy, which we appreciate since we’re one of those. However, sometimes the little guy doesn’t have all their pages working, which is the case here.
Dieting Review promises that they offer, “all the weight loss information you need.” That would be great, but a we believe that you’ll need a little more that a brief synopsis of the current diets to successfully lose weight. However, the reviews are to the point without prejudice and ads are limited to the standard Google column so they’re not intrusive. Unfortunately, we found many pages listed that weren’t found when we clicked on them so we got the impression that it’s still a work in progress. We do like the fact that the reviews were to the point and pointed out the weaknesses as well as the strengths
About.com –Weight loss **
25 Points of 50
http://weightloss.about.com
This site is part of a larger “About.com” site that looks slick and corporate. It seems the weight loss section is run by a lady named Jennifer R. Scott since all the articles we found were by her. Nothing earthshaking and no new information. Just the standard drinks water, exercise, start a food diary, watch your calories.
If you were looking for current research or helpful finding, you probably won’t find them here. You will find a ton of advertising and pictures of a very plump Jennifer making you wonder why the diet guru isn’t following her own sage advice or maybe a kinder take would be, here’s someone who really understands how hard losing weight can be.
For information on diet supplements......click here.
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