New studies show that Twitter may help with weight loss? But now it's just social media? The University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health's researchers recently released a study that followed 96 overweight and obese men over a six-month period.
The researchers divided the 96 men into two groups:
The Twitter study highlights include:
- one that used podcasts to help them lose weight
- the another coupled podcasts with Twitter via mobile devices
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The result was that those who used Twitter daily to tweet about their weight loss journey also encouraged others to shed the pounds. This group of men lost more weight than those who did not use Twitter to post about their experiences.
The Twitter study highlights include:
- Twitter can be used to help individuals live better
- also can help to encourage healthy behavior and patterns
- Twitter can be a great resource for helpful weight loss hints and tips for their followers
- Twitter can help people meet their goals by providing support and allowing the tweet'er to express their journey in a relatively safe context.
Keep in mind that Twitter and Facebook have been known to set some on an eating craze. For instance, you read something disturbing somebody wrote, it is late at night, and you cannot communicate to them and you get worried. What happens? You head for the fridge.
So although social media can be helpful you should still be selective. Try Pinterest, at least it lacks the emotional mumbo jumbo!
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