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The
"Top 10", "Most" popular diet
I’m
reviewing various diet plans quite some time and have red enough info
to write a book about them. I’ve used references from the
press, books, journals, web etc…
During my research
I’ve came across an interesting fact of that meaning of
expressions like “Top
10” or “The Most
Popular” or combination of two of them. |
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”The Most
Popular Top 10” have relative meaning. You'll probably ask:
What can be relative in “Top 10” or “The
Most Popular”?
Or they are “Top
10” or not, or they are “The Most
Popular” or not.
The answer is simple: the
“Top 10” is what the writer for specific purposes
finds to be the “Top 10” and the same could be said
about the “The Most Popular” too.
To be more relevant and give
interesting information to the readers
I started my research with expressions like “top 10 diet
plans”, “most popular
diets”,
“last popular diet”, went into google and started
the search.
I expected to find quality
information about fashionable dieting habits, ranking of diets
according to the dieter’s numbers utilizing them. And the
results somehow surprised me:
The information I’ve
found looks more like a review of all possible diet plans on the market
and the author is choosing top 10 of them as he finds right to be. I
mean, that’s wonderful that diets are reviewed on their
positive and negative sides but without any numbers to support claims
like “The ----- Diet is the most popular diet
nowadays” sounds like non mature and non responsible to me.
You have to agree with me that
knowing numbers to support claims that the author makes, it’s
the minimum that we can ask when we read an informational review. With
the lack of this kind of information the whole article looks more like
serving ones promotional purposes instead of informing us about his
valuable findings.
Why I've decided to write this
article? Why bother? If you look for relevant information for you, you
probably will keep looking until you find it somewhere,
right? Yes
it must be right but there is some extra value when we read well based
information.
At last I’ve found
what I was looking for and maybe even got required information.
To get to the point, how diet
rankings are determined? And which is the most popular diet today?
Usually popular means what people is looking for, right? The One which
has greater demand on the market than others !
Just to get some clue about the
numbers I’ve tried searching google but this time I used
another tactics.
First I’ve found the
number of total searches of words and the numbers were :
- “diet”
-143,000,000 searches per month;
- “good diet”
yielded – 42,900,000;
- “bad diet”
– 27,600,000;
- “healthy
diet” – 10,800,000;
- “Health
diet” – 83,200,000 searches.
Impressive numbers, quite
impressive.
I think you got an idea. If
people are searching for something more than other it’s more
popular, right? So I’ve tried the same for some diet plans
from reviews which claimed for “The Most
Popular” and “Top 10” diets.
See the results:
- Atkins
– 1,610,000
- Zone
– 3,160,000
- Perricone – 304,000
- Ornish’s
Life choice – 8,990,000
- Weight Watchers
– 1,340,000
- Macrobiotic
– 418,000
- Raw foods - 1,320,000
- Slimming world
– 625,000
- The Gi diet
– 1,380,000
- Meal replacements
– 1,190,000
- Detox – 1,910,000
- Food combining
– 1,210,000
- Low fat – 8,330,000
- Coconut –
1,490,000
- South Beach
– 1,460,000
- Mayo Clinic
– 1,080,000
- Grapefruit –
1,610,000
- Curves –
1,200,000
- Cabbage soup
– 1,120,000
- Body Clock –
1,250,000
- Beverly Hills –
1,120,000
In the list we have 21 diet
programs and you can see clearly that there are 3 groups:
- largest demand – more
than 8,000,000 searches daily and Zone diet > 3,000,000
- medium – 1,000,000
– 1,610,000
- smallest
- less than
500,000 searches for month
I really don’t know
what those numbers say but I see that really popular ones nowhere are
mentioned as such … Nowhere …
You see the really most popular
two diet programs on google search today:
Ornish’s Life choice
diet plan and Low Fat Diet programs with more than 8,000,000 daily
searches each.
Are they really as popular
diets in practise like it's in google search?
I have not such kind of
information.
Now I have another issue to
research…
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