Providing health-condition specific coaching in a social network

A computer-implemented method for managing health condition-specific information about users and their relationships in a social network, comprising:

• obtaining information from the users by the computer relating to a health condition or conditions;
• maintaining in a computer system a plurality of relationships between users with common health conditions in a social network, each relationship comprising a commonality between at least two users of the social network, wherein the relationship further comprises a virtual table of users;
• generating health condition-specific information by the computer to share with the virtual table, wherein the health condition-specific information further comprises health condition-specific nutritional information;
• allowing for input and exchange of user-specific information among the users sitting at the virtual table via the computer system at the discretion of the user;
• and
• displaying the user-specific information and health condition-specific information to the users of the virtual table.