Social media ‘experts’ and even doctors spread misinformation about health and fitness

"From crazy diets to dangerous gym routines, the web is awash with pseudo-experts offering advice that’s at best untested and possibly lethal. No wonder doctors want us to check in with them first.

But here’s the thing, when it comes to diet and fitness advice, they, too, may be peddling nonsense.

More than perhaps any other area of modern medicine, nutrition and exercise has repeatedly fallen prey to unproven claims, dodgy practices and pure myth."