Counteracting nutritional misinformation: a curricular proposal.
Health authorities are concerned about community exposure to nutritional misinformation. Adequate education of health professionals in nutritional matters has been proposed as an important strategy for counteracting such misinformation. This paper provides an example of how the undergraduate chiropractic curriculum may be used to facilitate the development of a framework which enables discrimination between nutritional sense and nonsense. It also discusses how student awareness of discrepancies between personal belief, nutritional science and clinical practice reality may be enhanced.
Jamison
J R
JR
Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Phillip Institute of Technology, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
D001205:Ascorbic Acid / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology; D002118:Calcium / Q000008:administration & dosage; D002684:Chiropractic / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D009324:Naturopathy; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000187:drug effects
D001205:Ascorbic Acid; D002118:Calcium