A large-scale observational analysis of social media data reveals major public misperception of the attainability of drastic weight loss by dieting
Abstract
Introduction: Diet forums in social media websites provide an opportunity to glimpse the experience of different weight loss diet strategies reported by tens of thousands of individuals.
Methods: We analyzed all postings with weight information from the six major Reddit weight-loss diet forums (“subreddits”) as reported by forum participants.
Results: Data were collected from January 2011 to April 2020 from all 55,900 users posting weight information. Average start BMI was in the overweight or obese range (26–34 kg/m2), and average goal BMI was in the normal range (21.5–24.5 kg/m2) for all subreddits. There is correlation between start BMI and goal BMI (R2=0.63, p
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