A "Top 100 healthy twitters list" from the following blog was recently posted with one vegan blogger on it:
It's interesting to note that there is no contact information on the blog, no identification of whom runs it, and there only two posts: 100 health experts on twitter, and 100 ways to reduce health care costs (essentially links to news sources, articles, and insurance groups). Why no background information? Why no information on the organization or individuals who run the two-post blog and corresponding website?
A WHOIS search shows the domain was registered by Annie Gavin of Iowa City, Indiana. Why isn't her name on the website or blog (or anyone else's for that matter)? What's the raison d'etre? Apparently, to promote online degrees and get paid by organizations who have people inquire about their programs through her online submission form:
http://www.lpn-to-rn.net/
Sure, there are some interesting people noted on the "twitter" list, but calling them all "experts" is quite a stretch (and I've looked at some of their corresponding web sites). Maybe some of the honored will promote, er, mention, er, link to her blog/website... but do they know about her business? Do they even know who recommended them?
Regardless, we do get some wellness advice from a listed "expert:"
"Do the healthy thing and follow the Top 17 wellness tweeters. See them here..."
After all, Ms. Gavin (or rather, whomever wrote the 2 posts) recommended them, so they must all be good, healthy, happy, and knowledgable experts. Like the listed vegan blooger wellness "expert" who recently promoted Whole Food's mostly meat and dairy school lunch recipes (I'm particularly fond of the "red meat" and "protein" recipes), and created a "day's worth of energizing" recipes that had almost twice the daily fat recommended by the Feds (around five times that of the recommendations of heart disease experts Caldwell Esselstyn and Dean Ornish).
"Healthy TWITter experts" indeed...
Help me out--are these posts:
# Top 100 Health Twitters & A Reality Check
[Facts]
# A "Mighty O" Heart Attack
[Facts]
# False Energizing (Day One)
[Unfortunately, Facts]
# Identify this Vegetable and Win Something!!!
[Satire... the rhutabaga pictured is really a cabbage]
# Whole Foods Lunchbox Program: Whole Foods Bull$hit
[Facts]
humor or satire?
[Whether the facts are funny or not is open to subjective opinion. Thanks for your feedback! Mark]
Posted by: Bob | 2009.09.30 at 16:31