Lacking Credibility!!!

Hey guys, this week I am going to be talking about Credibility and the lack thereof. As we can see from the images below the titles for the articles below are "Why workout hard when you can cheat your way to thin?" and "Fat loss 4 idiots - is it really just for idiots?". So as we can see people would love if these articles were 100% true and that we could easily cheat and be thin; however, if it was really that easy to be thin, then obviously everyone would be thin and people would not have to work for anything. 

So you may ask yourself how can I determine whether or not these articles are real or not? Well there are many different ways to determine whether the articles are real or not. Well for starters, you should not believe everything you read, just because its on the internet doesn't mean that it is true. For example, the images above are completely covered in advertisements that is one thing you may want to watch out for. Credible sites will not any advertisements since they are not looking to gain money. Another would be asking yourself if the article is too good to be true, if you think it is then it probably is. "Cheating your way to thin"? its probably not true. In the image above we can also see a book in the image which is basically the author of the article trying to sell something to the reader. Also in the article it talks about a guy named Marion, who apparently does this for his job; However we don't know who Marion is nor do we have any evidence that the supposed method actually works. 

An example of a good site would be looking at government websites where there is no advertisements and where we know that the site is not trying to sell you anything. The website talks about physical activity and how you need to work in order to improve on something. There is no easy way to cheat in order to become skinnier.  The website above is an example of a site that would be a credible source of information. 

References:
Why workout hard when you can cheat your way to thin. Retrieved from:
http://weightlossdietips.com/
Physical Activity. Retrieved from:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/physactiv/index-eng.php
Healthy Eating. Retrieved from:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/eat-aliment/index-eng.php