The search frequency of the word "lose weight" in Google will peak at the beginning of each year.
However, how to choose a healthier diet for yourself is a puzzling thing. As long as you glance at the health pages of women's magazines or the face pages of aunts and aunts, you will understand that nutrition science is a controversial topic, and various experts express their opinions and even contradict themselves-drinking red wine will increase the risk of cancer, but it will also reduce the risk of cancer. Coffee can prevent liver cancer, but drinking too hot coffee will give you esophageal cancer. The facts behind these theories are often difficult to establish, even if they are not contradictory.
Does the theory that "calorie consumption is greater than intake to lose weight" really help us understand how to lose weight? Or is it just a conclusion after oversimplifying the process of losing weight? Although experts have their own opinions, there is only one real knowledge in nutrition, that is, eating more vegetables may be a good thing. Even so, some nutrition articles suggest that even vegetables are not omnipotent nutritious foods. )
Since science has become an unreliable or inaccurate point of view in this debate, we will settle for the second best and seek the answer on the Internet.
Now open the social software Instagram to search for dieting advice, which can be equivalent to self-diagnosis of physical health through Google in the past. You can search and follow bloggers who have a healthy diet every day on IG, and consider improving your diet according to the food they bake. You can also search for fitness instructors and bloggers who have lost weight successfully through the tag # fitness # fitness. You may consider joining the #BBG initiated by online celebrity Kayla Itsines, the number one goddess in the fitness industry, and Australian personal trainer Kayla Itsines, or the #FBG fitness program initiated by Anna Victoria, a new fitness goddess.
Many of the bloggers mentioned above advocate encouraging healthy lifestyles and scientific weight-loss methods, but there are also many so-called fitness weight-loss bloggers who promote some weight-loss products simply because they receive money. They claim that using these products has magical effects on their health.
For example, "Fit Tea" or "SkinnyMe Tea" recommended by many online celebrities are actually diuretics; Or those drinks that claim to "detoxify and slim down, make your body look brand-new" and "bring you a feeling of pure vitality". In addition to online celebrities on IG, thousands of accounts have received funds to promote these products, and some of them have earned as much as $250,000 through recommendation.
Therefore, when you make up your mind to change yourself after Christmas and decide to start a healthy new life, you will be bombarded by so many misleading and wrong marketing information, and you may be tempted to go astray and want to achieve results through a few months of crazy dieting, instead of slowly changing yourself by stable and healthy eating habits.
So if you want to have a perfect figure and start a healthy life this year, you can temporarily close the IG page, quit from the marketing information of fitness reds to calm down and turn to another pure land that is not occupied by the marketing number-Reddit.
Why is Reddit more trustworthy?
If you really want to seek fitness advice and make real changes, then social news website Reddit will be your best choice. It is the most suspicious and cautious news website in the whole network.
Reddit itself has a clean, reliable and active healthy community. There are not only delicious and healthy recipes uploaded by various nutrition bloggers, but also users who question the scientific basis behind these nutrition recipes at any time. These fans will not only look at the flashy surface of the picture, but also take the initiative to study and understand what is effective and why. Reddit website has always been known for its culture of rational criticism. Individual users are often skeptical about mainstream norms and beliefs and curious about the little-known facts behind the mainstream.
Many of them take their bodies as the experimental objects of 1 test n. The N of 1 trial is a multi-crossover clinical trial based on a single patient. There was only one subject in the whole study, and the subjects alternately received two different treatment measures, which were repeated many times. In this process, they use diaries, spreadsheets or informal experimental methods to find out which methods are effective for them. They found that such research results not only help to understand and supplement the methods that are useful to them, but also summarize the general principles of effective methods and ineffective methods if their research results are analyzed as a whole, thus providing reference for the public. After experimental screening, the most popular diet and fitness methods are: Guyuan diet, whole30 diet, ketogenic diet, lose it diet software, gain it software and nutrition and fitness products.
In the past two and a half years, I have been studying the social dynamics of the community (especially the community that advocates primitive diet) on the internet with the topic of fitness and nutrition. I found that people who can really achieve their goals in the end are often those who are good at questioning, and Reddit is indeed the most suitable online community for these people.
Reddit can draw a very reliable conclusion because of the rigorous and critical attitude of people in the community. When it comes to nutrition, it is always difficult to draw conclusions. The "fact case" used to support the conclusion can not provide a reliable reference for individuals, because everyone's genes are different, and genes are often the most important factor affecting the experimental results. You can spend several hours reading the abstracts of articles in PubMed literature database, and you can also spend the same time browsing the inspirational stories of crazy slimming shared on IG. In other words, what you decide to believe depends on who you decide to believe. Everyone can share their secret of losing weight ―― you just have to choose which one to believe.
Users in Reddit also use this method to comprehensively decide the best way to lose weight or gain muscle. So, how do users decide who to trust?
Through observation and summary, the author sorts out some common judgment methods to distinguish whether those online celebrities are seriously summing up and sharing their experiences or just marketing for advertising revenue.
Next, I will give you a series of tips, which the author calls "professional signs". They are not the secret of a healthy diet. On the contrary, these suggestions are to help you learn to distinguish and determine who is truly trustworthy.
Take the users under the label of "primitive diet" as an example, let's learn how to better identify which big V is trustworthy. Primitive diet is the way to return to primitive diet, and eat less grain salt; Mainly protein (meat, fish), unsaturated fatty acids, fresh fruits and vegetables. Don't eat pretreated food.
A person who is not opinionated
Hundreds of clues and thousands of comments I have studied show that the most reliable users are often those who are willing to admit their mistakes. When faced with factual evidence that refutes their position, they will not stick to their own views. A big V user I interviewed once said, "I like to listen to people's different opinions. There is no weight loss secret that can be applied everywhere. Everyone is a different individual. If someone uses any absolute words when talking about health, they are probably just trying to sell products. I'm also more inclined to trust an expert like Rob Wolf, who won't stick to his guns. The process of continuous learning is also a process of constantly overthrowing your previous position. "
People who don't follow the trend.
A self-righteous user may be a marketing number, but if someone is questioned and immediately overturns all his ideas, arguments and evidence, then he may not be trustworthy.
People who don't sell products.
All successful marketing products are not necessarily good products. The most popular expert in the field of nutritious diet does not sell fitness supplements for every dry article. But be careful: if someone claims from the beginning that they are not advertising, it may also be a marketing strategy for them to increase their reading of articles.
Persons with relevant professional qualifications.
Even if someone adds a doctorate before the user name, it doesn't mean that he knows nutrition. We need to look for people with professional certification qualifications and experience in nutrition, sports science and other related fields. Surprisingly, doctors are often regarded as laymen of nutritional diet, because medical colleges are often backward in the introduction and teaching of nutritional curriculum knowledge.
A person whose research results have no interest in the sponsor.
No matter which research you decide to trust, the results it shows are inseparable from the sponsors who provide funds behind it. Sponsors may be government or university institutions, but they may also be profit-making enterprises or individuals. For example, drug research funded by companies that produce drugs usually shows positive results. Almost all "non-traditional" diet methods, such as primitive diet, ketogenic diet, all-30 diet and so on. It is a challenge to the mainstream nutrition knowledge, so it also touches the interests of the sponsors behind it. You will find that many users have hardly visited the community, but when they come in, they criticize these foods and drinks, perhaps because of the navy hired by the sponsors.
A well-founded person
Again, you must be careful when surfing the Internet. Because usually, people's seminars turn into a competition of "who finds more research cases", but no one will take the time to read all the research project cases. However, if someone puts forward an idea and provides a link to the argument, then they may be more professional than a layman. If they quote the specific contents of the literature, the credibility is higher.
People recommended by people around you.
I have interviewed many people and analyzed many users' comments. The results show that friends, family and community are the most important sources of trust. If people I already trust tell me who shares something effective online, then I will trust them more easily than strangers online. Of course, this brings the question back to the original point: how do I know who to trust in the first place?
If you don't want to study Reddit deeply and want to get better dietary nutrition and exercise advice, then knowing these "professional signs" can help you get better information. Even if you still choose to use Instagram to seek motivation for a healthy life, make sure that you are not just fascinated by the surface of things. Instead, ask questions to question, and be especially vigilant when you see the story of miraculous crazy weight loss and fancy theory. Overpackaged things are usually pseudoscience, as always.