Human nutrition--paradoxes of drugs and diet.
Complex historical and other reasons account for public confusion concerning optimal nutritional practice. The mass media are not alone in presenting results of scientific work in non-scientific form. Health professionals, scientists, and people from industry have all contributed to the confusion concerning diet and the public good. Extrapolation from one situation to another, simplification of issues, and biased presentation of data, have intensified the problems. The limited perspective of many experts is frequently coupled with over-enthusiastic promotion of what are really hypotheses rather than established truths. The public good is not being served by the present confusing pattern of paradoxes. There is an urgent need for health professionals to review their presentations to the public such that emerging scientific knowledge is presented effectively in terms of a broad perspective.
Academic Teaching Unit, Middlemore Hospital, Otahuhu, Auckland.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations