surf Can Lose Weight?

surf Can Lose Weight?

A website can sometimes be like opium that makes us sit for long lasting, while our daily work abandoned. Even browsing can make us do something we should not do, like eating instant noodles more often because lazy cook, and again for fun surf.

That's the internet, the terrible effects that sorted can spend pages and pages of a book to write.

But a new study says that, the Internet can also be something else: a place to help people maintain their weight.

Wow, this sounds fresh air for patients with obesity and internet addicts hiiii

A new study conducted over a period of two and a half years found that the more often a person logged into one site, the more likely they are to maintain her weight. Surely not just any site, but a site that is designed specifically in an institution called the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (KPCHR).

What makes this site managed to keep the weight people?

Researchers believe that this could happen. Internet users asked to log in once a week and enter the amount of weight and exercise they have done. If they do not log in regularly, they will send emails and phone calls automatically. On this site, users can also chatiing with other users in a medium like a mini facebook so they can share and discuss the progress of their own programs.This site is designed to give the impression of how it feels to be in a weight-loss program that also offers individual counseling and group meetings. Although this is not as effective as the direct interaction of human beings, but the interaction between users who want to lose weight via the internet is more effective than none at all.The study began with 1600 participants. Approximately 350 people from their lost enough weight during the first six months as long as they follow the trial program at the site is currently in maintenance period. At the end of the program, users who have logged on a regular basis, at least once a month for 28 months, they have managed to lose weight by an average of 9 pounds. While ordinary users website only managed to lose weight an average of 3 pounds.Is Nancy Makin, an American who had lost a quarter ton of weight after her brother bought her computer when her birthday. Nancy was afraid to go out because of their bulky, for which he chose over the Internet because people can not see it.Once he found an online community, he said started to lose weight. Not because he is less hungry, but because he has other activities besides eating.With these concrete results, of course, sites like this will be loved by many people. But unfortunately, the original KPCHR site no longer exists. But there are many sites that appear similar, the various sites that have a key component of weight loss such as timers feature to record your weight, a feedback mechanism to respond to each user as well as support from experts as consultants or providing interesting information that is useful for weight loss.Sites like these can certainly be used if that person wants to lose weight serus. But Nancy said that the key for a program like this is our own accountabilitas. We need to get satisfaction and confidence in ourselves, even if we achieve or do something not for ourselves, and the weight loss is just a side effect of what we do.(Time.com)