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My internet searches were performed using the Bing search engine. I decided to use the term calorie. My search results returned with many amounts of sources; eighty-three million seven hundred thousand results to be exact.
The first source I selected was the Calorie Control Council located on the web at http://caloriecontrol.org/. The Calorie Control Council are experts certified in nutrition, health, and food. All of the information that is available on the website has come from scientific research. The website also mentions that the website is for educational purposes only. After carefully reviewing I determined this source to be a credible source because the educational information provided has come from certified experts and is base on scientific research/results. There wasn’t anything difficult about sifting through the nutritional information provided from this source. The website was very user-friendly and very well organized.
The second source I selected was the very first source returned within my search results; Wikipedia located on the web at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie. The author(s) of this page are too many to count; however, every single edit can be at …show more content…
Another thing that makes Wikipedia a non-credible source is that anyone can make updates or change any/all of the information on the page as long as you create a Wikipedia account. This is portrayed within the URL provided above with each edit from different authors. The hardest part about sifting through the nutritional information was having to verify whether or not the information given on this site was accurate by going to a credible source to compare the information. Sifting through the information just way too time consuming, incredibly inconvenient and entirely

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