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Want to shed extra kilos? Join social media

Sep 9 2014, 7:40am CDT | by IANS

London, Sep 9 (IANS) Social networking programmes designed to help people lose weight could play a role in the global fight against obesity, according to new research.

Researchers from the Imperial College London compiled data from 12 studies spread across the US, Europe, east Asia and Australia which trialled social networking services for weight loss, involving a total of 1,884 participants.

The results showed that people who used these services achieved a collective decrease in body mass index (BMI) by a value of 0.64, which the authors describe as modest but significant.

"One advantage of using social media is that it offers the potential to be much more cost-effective and practical for day-to-day use when compared to traditional approaches," said lead study author Dr. Hutan Ashrafian, from the department of surgery and cancer at Imperial College London.

"It is not the only solution to the obesity epidemic but it should be introduced as an element of every country's counter obesity strategy," Dr. Ashrafian noted.

The paper, published in the journal Health Affairs, was one of 10 reports on global healthcare policy written for the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative of Qatar Foundation.

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Unilever Behavior

Aug 22 2014 4:02am CDT | Source: reveries

To get a sense of Unilever’s ethos, its CEO slept al fresco in the founder’s rooftop bed, reports The Economist (8/9/14). "William Lever, founder of what is now Unilever," slept nightly in the open, atop his mansion. Paul Polman, the company’s current CEO, only spent one night there, but the experience "helped persuade him, a year later, to launch the Sustainable Living Plan … his attempt to make Unilever the pre-eminent example of how to do capit ...
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Want to shed extra kilos? Join social media

London, Sep 9 (IANS) Social networking programmes designed to help people lose weight could play a role in the global fight against obesity, according to new research.

Want to shed extra kilos? Join social media

London, Sep 9 (IANS) Social networking programmes designed to help people lose weight could play a role in the global fight against obesity, according to new research.