LiveScience.com Karen Rowan, editor in Chief Myhealthnewsdaily
LiveScience.com - Wed Jun 8, 5: 14 pm EST
Support of online weight loss programs have increased in popularity, and a new study suggests that for some, they work better than their counterparts in the real world in the strengthening of the confidence of a person.
The results showed that participants in a group weight loss support "meeting" in a virtual world were more likely to report eating healthy and being physically more active after 12 weeks than those who participated in a support group which met in real life.
"They were more confident in their ability to exercise", and more confident that they would maintain their regime of exercise of real life to critics, such as the bad weather or go on vacation, said study investigator Jeanne Johnston, Assistant Professor in Kinesiology at the University of Indiana.
No there was no difference between the online and the Group of real in terms of the weight, they have lost. Johnston, said the difference in levels of trust between the groups can mean a difference in their ability to maintain their loss of weight over time. However, more long-term studies are needed to study it.
Online support group has met in the world on the Web, known as Second Life, where people create avatars to represent themselves in their interactions with others. Virtual "room" where meetings were held included from treadmills and exercise bikes that avatars can use in their training sessions, Johnston said.
Of course, these virtual training sessions is a not burn any real life calories, but they built the confidence of participants in their ability to exercise, Johnston said.
"I think it's something to do with visualization," to see your avatar through a training session, she said. "Power to go to the virtual world - you do not have to drive it, you can hide any weight gained - it makes you less timid.".
"Online management of the problems of weight, with a variety of different tools, will become more and more popular," said Dr. Louis Aronne, clinical professor and Director of the comprehensive weight control program at Cornell University, who was not involved in the study.
Aronne created the program online weight loss called BMIQ, said the research showed that a key component of the decision-making of these work programmes is capturing the spirit of a meeting of real life.
"When Dietitians support online, online groups have good results." They are very similar to go to a group, at a physical meeting, "he said to MyHealthNewsDaily.
Aronne and Johnston said that online programs won't work for everyone. "For some people, these tools will be as good [as real-life support]." For others, they will be, "he says. Some people just need to meet face to face with other people, he said.
Another drawback is that, for the participants in online programs, it may be easier to become distracted, Aronne said. And those who are not tech-savvy are unlikely to benefit from these programs.
Johnston study was conducted in collaboration with a fitness club, but she received no funding from the company for her research, she said. She presented her work Friday (June 3) at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting in Denver.
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