Metabolic Syndrome
“Metabolic syndrome”
About 6,180,000 results
The Google search reflected that there are over six million results for the topic “metabolic syndrome”. The searched item was put into quotation marks to limit the results to those web pages which contain this words in a word combination but not separately on the page. Among the first results of the Google search are the official pages of Mayo Clinic and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI, NIH), and Wikipedia.
The official page of Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/metabolic-syndrome/home/ovc-20197517). The provider of the information is Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). It is a credible source. Though this source is credible, I would not rely on this source to support my discussions and homework assignments.
NHLBI’s official web page (https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/ms). National heart, Lung, and Blood Institute under direction of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the provider of the information. This website is also a credible source. This source must be the most appropriate to use as a scholarly reference.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_syndrome). Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia, is the author of the given information. Taking into consideration that a Wiki page can be modified by any volunteer, this website regarded as a non-credible source. As a rule, Wiki-pages are considered to be false, misleading, or non-factual and thus are not usually allowed to be used for academic research.
To sum up, the Google search gives an extremely large amount of results, but a significant share of these results are non-credible sources. Thus, the hardest part about sifting through nutrition information is finding a reliable source for academic …
