More than half of the top 20 nutritional and diet websites offer advice that is often less than healthy, according to Consumer Reports Web Watch, which teamed up with another nonprofit group, the Health Improvement Institute, to take a good look at the credibility of health advice that is offered online. The Washington Post reports on the study, which used data from Nielsen//NetRatings to find the 20 most
popular diet and nutrition Web sites, and then dispatched 19 experts, including doctors, nurses and medical librarians, to rate the sites. The Post reports that the six lowest-rated sites frequently blurred lines between supposedly
impartial information and ads, the Consumer Reports study found. They
were AOLhealth.com, QualityHealth.com, Dannon’s LightnFit.com,
Healthology.com, Rodale’s Prevention.com and TrimLife.com, which sells
dietary supplements.
Consumer Reports Web Watch offers this summary of their research findings:
–Of 20 diet sites, or diet and fitness sections of major sites, to
be rated, three were given the highest rating of "Excellent": Aetna
InteliHealth, MedicineNet.com, and MayoClinic.com.
–Two received a "Very Good" rating: WebMD and National Institutes of Health.
–Three were given a rating of "Good": eDiets.com, RealAge and WeightWatchers.com.
–Sites rated "excellent" included unbiased, peer-reviewed content written by health professionals.
–Six sites rated "Fair": MSN Health & Fitness, About Health
& Fitness, Yahoo! Health, The Sonoma Diet, The Biggest Loser Club
and The South Beach Diet Online.
–Six were given the lowest rating of "Poor": AOL Health,
QualityHealth.com, Light ‘n Fit, Healthology, Prevention.com and
TrimLife.
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