Article Analysis

Article Analysis: Nutrition Science More Complex than Reported. A Newspaper Article Review

Posted on: 2015-06-23
 
On June 17, 2015 an article in the National Post (1), which said that chocolate “lowers heart disease, stroke risk… prevents obesity, diabetes… keeps you skinny [and]… improves thinking”, gave false information. Nutrition science is more complex than this article implied. Reporting errors in this article include: implying causation from correlation, excluding study details, making conclusions about the effects on humans from animal studies, and reporting studies
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