The Internet, it might well be admitted, inhibits our ordinary offline existence by means of its many-fangled enticements that keeps us glued to the computer, peering intently at the screen and mostly oblivious to the goings-on in the actual world. The rich quality of entertainment offered by cyberspace is persuasive enough to wean its followers away from healthy practices like spending time on exercise and eating non-packaged food. However, surprisingly, a new study, spanning more than two years, reveals the more often people logged on to a specially designed website, set up by researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (KPCHR), the more likely they were to keep off obesity. The original KPCHR site, which is no longer live, was created with the singular aim of providing an online equivalent of a real-life weight loss program inclusive of personal counseling and group meetings. The study suggests social interaction, even if it be online, can be sufficiently effective for overweight introverts to feel good about themselves - a key requirement to shake off those extra pounds.
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