What is it about?
While clinical studies show that most diets result in weight loss of only a few kg, postings from 56,000 people in the six major weight-loss Reddit forums demonstrate that most dieters expect to lose all their excess weight.
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Why is it important?
Our results implicate that there is widespread misinformation on the magnitude of long term weight loss possible to achieve by dieting.
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I am thankful to all Reddit Diet forum participants who shared their weight loss expectations and achievements.
Irit Hochberg
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
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This page is a summary of: A large-scale observational analysis of social media data reveals major public misperception of the attainability of drastic weight loss by dieting, Obesity Facts, December 2022, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000528803.
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