Thread: Protein bar or shake?

Originally Posted by sycld

Oh no; that's the sort of information I want. The problem is that so many articles on the site are essentially advertisements.

They probably are.. the site has to make money to operate somehow.

Originally Posted by Kal El

They probably are.. the site has to make money to operate somehow.

Yeah it does, and they can do it through advertisements. However, the honest way to make money through advertisements is to clearly delineate the where the articles stop and the advertisements begin, as is done in legitimate sources of information that make a profit through advertisements, such as Google, newpapers, etc. Not doing so violates the integrity of such a site and is down-right dishonest and misleading.

It doesn't occur to you that if these articles are trying to push particular brands of products on us, that maybe these articles aren't reliable sources of information? Especially when it comes to suggestions about how to take care of my body, I want reliable, unbiased information.

Originally Posted by sycld

Yeah it does, and they can do it through advertisements. However, the honest way to make money through advertisements is to clearly delineate the where the articles stop and the advertisements begin, as is done in legitimate sources of information that make a profit through advertisements, such as Google, newpapers, etc. Not doing so violates the integrity of such a site and is down-right dishonest and misleading.

It doesn't occur to you that if these articles are trying to push particular brands of products on us, that maybe these articles aren't reliable sources of information? Especially when it comes to suggestions about how to take care of my body, I want reliable, unbiased information.

That's why I talk to the billion personal trainers that I know sweetie. When it comes down to it, there are so many different points of view on what works, and what doesn't, that at the end of the day, it's quite an uncontrolled field in terms of information. That's why you have to read a million articles, talk to three billion people, and see what the general consensus is. That site has been helpful for me, you just have to take it with a grain of salt.