In this Internet era, there is just too
much information out there and it is not surprising that some of it is
contradictory. This is no less true regarding nutrition.
The interpretation is not always easy,
given the messages are often inconsistent.
In this blog, we are going to tell you how
to evaluate the nutritional information from the media and what are the key
concepts to look for whenever media draws a link between diet and disease.
To do this, let us introduce a concept
called ‘EPIDEMIOLOGY’.
EPIDEMIOLOGY=the study of how often
diseases occur in different groups of people and why
As a foundation to nutritional
epidemiology, the following concepts will be introduced: relevance of nutritional
epidemiology, hierarchy of evidence, sourcing literature, measuring exposure
and outcome and potential error and bias.
Hope you will feel more confident to discern the mixed nutritional messages from the media after reading our blog!
Last but not least, feel free to leave your questions in the comment section under each post. We will answer your queries as soon as possible.
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