Nutrition suggestions are flooding-medical education experts explain how to tell effective health information from pseudo-science

The great popularity of COVID-19 clarifies the broad landscape of many themes, science and health leaders.

Since then, the information overload has continued to weaken, and the attack of many people's health information that responded to contradictions was correctly confused. Even expert suggestions are often contradictory.

The most important thing is that people sometimes have deliberately distort research to promote a certain agenda. For example, sodium phosphate is a common food additive in cakes and biscuits, which is used to improve texture and prevent deterioration. It's dangerous for your health.

Such claims can spread rapidly, causing extensive misunderstandings and destroying trust in legal scientific research and medical proposals. The rise of social media as a source of news and information has further increased the spread of pseudo -scientific views.

In the field of health and nutrition, error information is rampant. The discovery of nutritional research is rarely clear, because diet is only one of many behaviors and lifestyles that affect health, but the use of food and supplements as the simplicity of the treatment method is particularly tempting.

I am an assistant professor who specializes in medical education and scientific communication. I also train scientists and future medical care professionals how to convey their science to the public.

In my opinion, the voices of health activists who oppose social media influences and the promotion of pseudo -scientific health claims need to rely on the science of preventing diseases. A wide range of evidence -based practices and public health measures have been produced in a wide range of research, which has always been proven to improve the health of millions of people around the world. Evaluating popular health claims for this work can help distinguish which sound science is distinguished.

Navigation tangled information terrain

Almost everything we eat and drink can find contradictory information.

That's because food or drinks are rarely good or bad. Instead, the impact of its health depends on everything consumed by one person to everything for its genome. Hundreds of scientific research describes the health of coffee, coupled with its health risks. Bird's eyes can point to one direction or another, but news articles and social media posts usually propose claims based on one study.

Things will make diet supplements even more chaotic, because people who promote them usually put forward great claims on their health benefits. For example, if you know, take apple apple vinegar (or ACV) as an example.

Apple cider vinegar has been touted as a pure natural therapy of various diseases, including digestive problems, urinary health and weight management. Indeed, some studies have shown that except for other health benefits, it may help reduce cholesterol, but in general, the samples of these studies are small and have no conclusion.

Promotes that advocate this substance usually claim that one of its specific components -the cloudy sediments at the bottom of the bottle are called “mothers” -because the bacteria and yeasts containing are especially beneficial. However, there is no study that supports any health benefits.

A good rule of experience is to ensure that the healthy hackers who ensure fast repair are always very good, so that it cannot be achieved. Even if the supplement does provides some health benefits in certain circumstances, they must be remembered that they are not limited by food and drug management regulations to a large extent. This means that the ingredients on the label may contain more or less promised ingredients or other ingredients that have not been listed, which may cause liver toxicity and other harms.

It is also important to remember that the value of the global food supplement industry is more than $ 150 billion per year. Therefore, companies and health influencers who sell supplements have the financial benefits that persuade the public to their value.

How to distort nutrition science

There is no doubt that good nutrition is essential for your health. Studies have always showed that a balanced diet containing a variety of nutrients can help prevent chronic diseases and promote overall well -being.

For example, calcium and iron and other minerals support bone health and oxygen circulation in the blood, respectively. Protein is important for muscle repair and growth. Healthy fat (such as fat found in Nuts) is essential for brain health.

However, pseudo -science claims usually distort this basic fact to promote the concept of specific diet or supplements to prevent or treat diseases. For example, it is known that vitamin C plays a role in supporting the immune system and helps reduce the duration and severity of the cold.

However, despite the opposite claims, consuming a large amount of vitamin C does not prevent colds. In fact, the human body only needs a certain amount of vitamin C to run normally, and any extra person is simply excreted.

The company sometimes claims that its supplement is “scientific proof” to cure diseases or enhance brain function without reliable research to support it.

Some companies exaggerate their benefits while underestimating the harm.

For example, healthy influencing has been promoted to Pakistan to sterilize milk. This is a more natural and nutritious choice, but it is risky to consume it. Milk without Bange may contain harmful bacteria, leading to gastrointestinal diseases. In some cases, diseases that are more serious and may endanger life, such as bird flu or bird flu.

Such a diet myth is not harmless. Relying on nutrition can cause other key aspects of ignoring health, such as regular inspections and life -lived vaccines.

The temptation of diet myths allows people with cancer to replace good scientific support treatment through unbagans and misleading nutrition plans, such as chemotherapy or radiation.

How to discover science below fixed science

Pseudo -science uses your desire to live the healthiest life and uses your sense of insecurity and emotions.

Although the world around you may not be sure and cannot be controlled, you must at least believe that you can control your health. This is where the health industry intervenes.

The reason why pseudo -science claims is so confusing that they use enough scientific terms to sound convinced. Supplements or powder that claims to “enhance immunity” usually lists components such as original and super food. Although these words sound real and convincing, they actually do not mean any meaning in science. They are the terms created by the health industry to sell products.

I have studied and wrote a reliable method of distinguishing the scientific facts from the proposition of false health. To keep vigilance and find reliable information, I suggest you follow some key steps.

First, check your emotional-strong emotional response such as fear and anger may be a dangerous signal.

Next, check whether the author has experience or professional knowledge in the theme field. If they are not experts, they may not know what they are talking about. Make sure that the well-known source is always a good idea-ask yourself, will scientists trust this source?

Finally, search for the reference of backup information. If there is almost nothing or nothing to support these claims in the scientific community, then you may want to put your trust in other sources.

Follow these steps to distinguish the facts from false news and make you have the ability to make evidence -based decisions.