Talk:Slimming World

message: The section "Food Optimising" ended in a sentence "Syn values are not simply based on calories, but", which didn't make sense, nor was I able to guess or find out what to end it with.  I have therefore deleted it, as it does not detract from the article. Refsworldlee(chew-fat) 23:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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message: The efficacy section states this
In common with most other weight loss programmes, Slimming World's regime does not help achieve weight loss any better than increasing exercise levels alone.
But that is not what the citation concludes at all.  The cited reference concludes this:
Commercially provided weight management services are more effective and cheaper than primary care based services led by specially trained staff, which are ineffective. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208022/#__p8
I believe the efficacy section needs to be removed as you can various different studies that draw contradictory conclusions.  therefore you just need to find a study that correlates with the point that you want to make and cite it, even if there are other studies are out there that say otherwise.  Case and point, reference 13 and reference 14 in the article contradict each other.
217.33.47.30 (talk) 15:44, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The CRD summary states simply this: "The authors concluded that the only programme to achieve statistically significantly greater weight loss than exercise only was Weight Watchers". That's a strong RS. The later study is a primary source and fails WP:MEDRS. Alexbrn (talk) 08:44, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

text: Yes, the NICE source is good: added. CRD summaries are good too (it's the only reason why the comparative study is admissible). Alexbrn (talk) 13:55, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Efficacy 

message: I believe that the appropriate spelling is SYN, and shouldn't this be linked to the SYN disambiguation?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahremsee (talk • contribs) 16:27, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sin vs Syn 

message: A lot of the figures posted in the article are now out of date and there have been some developments in other areas. Please find below links to up-to-date information including details of Slimming World’s recently introduced partnership with the Royal College of Midwives which may be of interest for the pregnancy section of this article. I’d like to declare a conflict of interest as I am a senior public relations officer for Slimming World and so am following the CIPR draft guidelines for PR professionals using Wikipedia:
There are now 9,000 groups rather than 6,000: http://www.slimmingworld.com/about-us/about-slimming-world.aspx
Slimming World has now raised £2.5m for charity rather than £2m: http://www.slimmingworld.com/information/smiles.aspx
In February 2012 Slimming World magazine entered the UK top 10 of most actively purchased UK magazines for the first time. It is the most actively purchased diet and health magazine in the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/table/2012/feb/16/abcs-consumer-magazines
http://www.slimmingworld.com/press-articles/120212-slimming-world-magazine-top10.aspx
Slimming World on Referral has now had over 100 schemes and helped 100,000 patients. http://www.slimmingworld.com/health/swor/what-is-swor.aspx The link also has details of published evidence.
In October 2011, the Family Affair programme was praised by Dr Hilary on ITV Lorraine. This might not be considered suitable for the article: http://www.itv.com/lorraine/health/slimming-world-kids/
Slimming World works in partnership with the Royal College of Midwives and is the only national slimming organisation to support pregnant women and breastfeeding mums: http://www.rcm.org.uk/college/about/media-centre/press-releases/slimming-world-and-royal-college-of-midwives-launch-partnership-30-01-12/
Slimming World’s ‘Body Optimise’ programme has been renamed as ‘Slimming World Online’
Thanks for reading. 
LeighGreenwood (talk) 14:23, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The RCT is a primary source and so not considered reliable for health claims (see WP:MEDRS). If any company information appears in independent secondary sources it my be worth including, but the information on a company factsheet is not in itself necessarily encyclopedic. However, I don't see any objection if you updated the existing simple factual information yourself, from the company souce. Alexbrn (talk) 17:06, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated figures and information 

message: Form the talk page I can see the article used to explain what 'SYNS'. has this information been censored out? I should not need to join Slimming World tofind out, even Google quotes 'SYNS' when giving results for foods. Stub Mandrel (talk) 20:37, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an encyclopedia. If you want direct information on SW's products visit their web site. Alexbrn (talk) 20:41, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Censorship 

message: Have added the POV check template. Parts of this article sound overly promotional (e.g. "Slimming World works in partnership with the Royal College of Midwives and is the first national slimming organisation to support pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers."; "Slimming World's charity, 'SMILES'...has raised more than £2,500,000 for charity." followed by a primary source). I doubt it's intentional, but I think the article needs work to reach a neutral POV. Klock101 (talk) 20:29, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: The 'Diet overview' section contains no information about diet. 2A00:23EE:18E8:714:D4CD:FF66:12B8:A607 (talk) 19:02, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Diet overview'?