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| Q. What is this site for? A. It's here to help people support each other in better eating habits. Simple as that. Q. Will it help me lose weight? A. It might. You might be able to help other people lose weight too. But it is not only about losing weight. We want to encourage each other to look beyond weight. Most important is we improve our health through our eating habits. Q. Who is involved in it? A. It is intended for you to be involved. You can keep a diet diary here, and you can post comments, as well as items of interest to people concerned about their eating habits. Q. Who are the people behind it? A. Here are the people who started it. Haydn is a journalist who has a special interest in food and health. He invited Luise Light to get involved. Luise was formerly Director of Dietary Guidance and Nutrition Education Research at the US Dept of Agriculture. Roos is a nurse. Q. What can I do here? A. You can keep an online diet diary - you may want to do that anonymously, so choose a user name that you can remember but doesn't give your identity away. You can add comments. You can find people with similar interests and comment on their diaries. You can ask each other for support at particularly stressful times or all the time. You can post reviews of restaurants you've eaten in. And you can post helpful recipes and tips. Soon you will be able to request mobile messages to suport your diet. And access info through your mobile. And you can find information on nutrition. Q. Do I have to register? A. Not if all you want to do is read. To post comments or reviews or to keep a diary, then you have to register. Q. How much does it cost? A. Nothing. You can be a member and pay nothing. Zip. Zero. We want to encourage an active community so we didn't put a price on the service. Q. Isn't there a premium members' area? A. We do have a premium member area and that's cheap. Only three Euros a month. We thought it was a fair swap for allowing us to make a little bit of income from the site and for the time and money we have put in. Q. What do I get if I pay the premium membership? A. You'll get a few tools to help you be a bit better organised. We may add some more features to the premium members area in time and then pass on tools to all members. Q.What's a user name? A.It's any name you choose. You will be known by that name on this site. When you post a comment or write a review it will be stamped with your user name. Q.Why do I have to give my e-mail address? A.That's simply so that we can send you a reminded if you forget your user name or password. It will never be shared with any other site or business. Q.Will you respect my privacy? A.Bank on it. We will never use any of your pesronal details for any reason whatsoever other than to communicate with you about this site. Q.What is spam? A.On this site spam is any post or comment that advertises a service or business. Q.So is advertising allowed or not? A.Yes. You can buy small ads here. It costs only a small amount of course, but we want to distinguish between genuine helpful comment and ads so pelase don't use posts or reviews for ads. Pay the rate - it's only a few dollars/Euros. Q.What is voting for? A.When you write a review you need to get people's votes before it will be published. People can also vote your review down. But if it gets seven votes, it is in. People can also vote for it to appear on the front page, giving your work extra visibility. Q.What happens to posts that are spam? A. We ask you to be vigilant about spam, so part of the site's precautions are an option for you to vote a post or comment as spam. Five spam votes and a post is automatically regarded as spam. We reverve the right still to withdraw posts that are obvious spam, in our opinion. Q. Why do you want us to pay make any payments through PayPal? A. PayPal is trusted by nearly 100 million people around the world. When you use PayPal you do not communicate to us any of your credit card details. We prefer you to work with the world's most trusted payment service. |
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