Let’s not trust the internet to lose weight. Or rather: if we are looking for diet advice online because we do not want to rely on a dietician, we try at least not to limit ourselves to reading only one site, especially if it is not a specialist site. The risk of finding yourself buying supplements or following fake diets is very high, and worse, it not only ruins our health, but also tends to worsen our relationship with the scale, in the sense that it makes us fat . Horned and beaten, a friend of mine would say. This is what a study published in the  Journal of Medical Internet Research revealed, which explains that users must stay away from all those sites that propose the purchase of products or supplements to lose weight, or that illustrate and recommend strict diets promising exceptional weight loss: given that ninety percent of internet users stop at the first google links when they do a search, running into these sites and getting bad advice is very simple.
Companies that build fake information pages that are actually hidden advertisements are on the rise. The study’s author, François Modave, of  Jackson State University in Mississippi asked volunteers to google the words “weight loss”, “diet” and many more and then show the results. Of the sites examined, very few had sufficient coverage, reporting medically acceptable studies or explanations, and were often blogs and university or medical sites. The rest aimed more at misinforming.
My advice is to never stop at the first page of results found , but if we want to know more, look for at least five or six different sources (not five or six sites that write the same things with a copy paste worthy of a mosaicist, but five or six sites that write different things and do insights) and with mentions of relevant studies, ethink very carefully before buying anything or starting a diet , perhaps letting a day or two pass in which the pros and cons are well evaluated.