Do you understand nutrition labels and nutrition research? Most of us don't have high nutrition literacy!

Emily- very busy week!
Jo- thankfully finished hicupping!

Research in England tells us that around half of US and UK adults routinely do not understand health information and have difficulty understanding and utilizing commonly provided types of health information, making health literacy an important mediator of health outcomes

· The Sugar Research Foundation sponsored a literature review written by Harvard University nutrition professors and published in New England Journal of Medicine, which singled out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary artery disease and downplayed evidence that sugar consumption was also a risk factor.

Research into food and nutrition is, compared to other sciences, a relatively small and new arena. Why? There’s little funding for such research and good research is incredibly time consuming, expensive and difficult to do.

In an age of Google and social media, we’ve never had such a wealth of information available immediately to us. This can be a benefit, but also a barrier.

Things to consider when looking at nutrition ‘facts’:
· Who is making the claims?
· What are their qualifications?
· What do you know about that person?
· Have they claimed ‘sensible’ nutrition concepts previously?
· Do they have ‘skin in the game’? Are they trying to sell you something?

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