SubscribeThe Top 20 Health Sites
Consumer Reports have rated the top 20 weight loss sites. The top 20 are based on traffic rankings. Consumer Report then went through and determined whether a site was poor, fair, good, very good, or excellent.
The full article is for subscribers only - but here is the list - ranked by traffic.
| Rank | Website | Rating |
| 1 | WebMD | Very Good |
| 2 | National Institutes of Health | Very Good |
| 3 | MSN Health & Fitness | Fair |
| 4 | About Health & Fitness | Fair |
| 5 | Yahoo! Health | Fair |
| 6 | WeightWatchers.com | Good |
| 7 | AOL Health | Poor |
| 8 | eDiets.com | Good |
| 9 | RealAge | Good |
| 10 | MedicineNet.com | Excellent |
| 11 | Aetna InteliHealth | Excellent |
| 12 | MayoClinic.com | Excellent |
| 13 | QualityHealth.com | Poor |
| 14 | The Sonoma Diet | Fair |
| 15 | Light ’n Fit | Poor |
| 16 | The Biggest Loser Club | Good |
| 17 | Healthology | Poor |
| 18 | Prevention.com | Poor |
| 19 | The South Beach Diet Online | Fair |
| 20 | TrimLife | Poor |
Most of the sites are accessible by subscription only. There are also some real oddities on this list. Light 'n Fit is a website by yogurt makers Dannon!
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"Light 'n Fit is a website by yogurt makers Dannon!"
I suppose their weight loss advice is to eat more of their products!
I would be interested to know what Consumer Report based their ratings on?
ReplyIt doesn't shock me Prevention.com has a poor rating.
ReplyTheir print magazine really needs some staff dietions.
A lot of their info is really bad.
checked out Light 'n Fit it's not the worst site I've seen by a long shot but I really wonder what made a site good or fair.
ReplyWhy did the bigest loser site get a fair?
Biggest loser didn't get fair...it got "good" rating. If you go to the consumer report site itself, the rating is good for the biggestloser. Also, the reasons for the ratings are listed at this site.
ReplyI know I was visiting the Light N' Fit site a lot earlier in the year because they had a contest going where you had to enter codes from your yogurt lid into a form online. I actually won a $15 gift card, so it ended up being worth it!
ReplyI'd have to agree with the other poster on the Prevention website comments. Some of their info is so outdated that it practically reeks of mothballs and gramophone records etched on wax.
I'd also be wary of any site with commercial tie-ins. Which eliminates most of the sites on the list, doesn't it!
A health website from a yoghurt company? Yes, I would guess tha eating more of their product is pretty much what they recommend - much like the 'Healthy Bones Week' rubbish sponsored by the dairy industry and suchlike.
- BTW, if you believe that drinking bovine breast milk will increase bone density, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you :-)
ReplyFor those interested, there is a more complete version of the ratings at the link below. It gives much more detail about the sites and how they were evaluated.
HealthRatings.org
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