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Nutrition and credible websites vs non credible websites

  • saniasaini5678
  • Jan 29, 2024
  • 3 min read

Hi everyone, Welcome to my blog. My name is Sania, hailing from a small town in India, I have never restricted myself in the boundaries of my house and have always been very curious and excited to explore the world and endless opportunities.




Since my childhood I have dreamt of becoming an entrepreneur and my dream brought me to Canada in search of great opportunities and that is how I started studying the course of business at George brown college. I enjoy studying all my courses however in my last semester, I was fascinated by the choices of different courses I had to choose from apart from my major courses. Nutrition was one such

course that really fascinated me because I have always


wanted to have a very healthy lifestyle and have been

keen to learn about the nutrition value of the food that

I eat, Following which I chose the course. So far in the course I have learnt a lot about nutrients, different foods that offer high or low nutrients and much more. The one particular topic that I studied and was really happy to learn about was the credibility of different websites that share information on nutrition. We tend to believe everything we read online but often ignore the fact that not everything we read online can be true, there are fake things as well. Specifically for websites that provide information on nutrition, it is very important to ensure that the information is not misleading and is coming along with proper references and from credible sources. I know this raises a question in your mind that how to identify which website is credible and which one is not credible? Well this is what my blog is going to be about. I will share some examples to show how to identify the credibility of nutrition websites.

Based on what I learnt from the course there are few primary keys to identify the credibility of a website:

  • Is the website associated with some health association or a government institution.

  • Is the information posted from any research organization or hospital or is it influenced by personal experiences of the person.

  • Are there any references available for the information provided.


Based on this I identified a credible website: Unlockfood.ca

It is a credible website because:

  1. The articles posted on the website are from dietitians. The dietitians use practice based evidence in Nutrition to write the articles which make it credible.

  2. The meal plans provided on the website are also provided by the dietitians and according to Canada's food guide.

  3. The website also provides detailed knowledge on how to become a dietitian and claims that all the information provided on website is shared by dietitians and is researched from credible sources.


The website that I came across that was not credible is: Globalresearch.ca

  1. This website does not provide any evidence or explanation for their claims in their articles.

  2. It is an independent research organization and is not associated with any government or national health organization.

  3. According to a survey on Statista, it is considered a website that misleads people by providing misinformation on health or nutrition.

This is how we can identify credible and non credible websites. So, next time you believe in anything you read online make sure to dive into website to identify whether it's credible or not.


References



Global research.


Statista. (2022, April 28). Top health disinformation websites 2020. Retrieved from.


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