Nutrition

The real-world harm of nutritional misinformation

Fad diets and dubious claims about nutrition have always been popular, but with social media, avoiding bad food advice seems harder than ever

False diagnoses like ‘adrenal fatigue’ offer us simplistic solutions to our stressful lives

According to wellness influencers, so many of our symptoms are caused by adrenal fatigue - a false diagnosis, that stops us questioning the real stresses in our lives

Is the ultra-processed food fear simply the next big nutritional moral panic?

Headline after headline warns about the supposed dangers of ultra-processed foods, but evidence that processing food causes poor health outcomes is lacking

Gillian Anderson misses the “G Spot” with her range of wellness drinks and health claims

The marketing for G Spot - the new range of wellness drinks from Gillian Anderson - goes beyond cheeky into outright misleading

Not right about nitrites? Mouse study provokes media scaremongering over cured meat

Headlines warn of the carcinogenic chemicals in school meals, but before we ban smoked sausages and nitrites, we'll need to see some better evidence

Is it time to stop using Body Mass Index as a diagnostic tool?

Body Mass Index, or BMI, is still widely employed as a health indicator, even though its usefulness is extremely limited, and demographically inaccurate

MSG and the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome: the persistence of a nutritional myth

Fears around "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" and MSG are based on a letter to the New English Journal of Medicine... later revealed to be a hoax

Say cheese: we shouldn’t listen to scaremongering about oestrogen and dairy

Despite much scaremongering, there's no truth to the claims that cheese contains harmful levels of oestrogen or other hormones
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