Should journalists avoid reporting on most food studies?

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We often see headlines claiming that a particular food will either save us or kill us. The problem is that there’s usually no good science to support those headlines. Should journalists just stop writing about food studies? Kelly Crowe at CBC News asks this question in her latest article. The background is all the recent click-and-share health news. Journalists have written stories based on weak studies about how all alcohol consumption is bad for health, that cheese and yogurt protect you from death and that a low-carb diet could shorten your life. These news stories have been widely spread without being based on any strong evidence. The problem is that journalists want to make clickable headlines no matter what effects they may have on the people who read it. Unlike nutrition researchers, who are careful to report their findings associated with a specific outcome, journalists often skip the nuance in order to make these news stories. In an article published in JAMA last...
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