Nutrition Advice

Nutrition Advice

Confusion over Mixed Media Messages

You know the drill:

• Butter's bad and margarine's good. Then butter's back and margarine's on the back burner.

• Oat bran is fabulous, then it fizzles. Now it's back again with its very own health claim on food labels.

Why do we continually see these frustrating nutrition flip-flops in the news? And what's the best advice to follow?

Moore explains it this way: "Credible nutrition advice is based on hundreds of research studies conducted over many years until a pattern emerges. During this process, results from different studies will sometimes contradict each other. Scientific research has worked this way for years. But today, people are so hungry for nutrition information that the media reports on many studies before researchers reach a consensus."

"That's why you shouldn't change your eating habits based on only a study or two," advises Moore.