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Quality of nutritional information on the Internet in health and disease.

Hippokratia

October 2011

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Technological and Educational Institute, Crete, Greece ; Deparment of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Universtity Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Background: Quality assessment of nutritional information on the internet may prove vital prior to providing public guidance on searching relative information.

Methods: The most popular web sites on four different topics ("Mediterranean diet", "sports nutrition", "nutrition, dysphagia and children" and "herbs and common cold") were assessed with the use of two validated questionnaires (EQIP and DISCERN).

Results: Medical categories produced significantly lower total quality scores when compared to "Mediterranean diet" and "sports nutrition" categories.

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