You are what you say you eat

Tabitha M. Powledge examines the multiple controversies over new federal dietary guidelines and suggests that one of the nation's biggest nutrition issues may be devilishly difficult to solve: "A consistent complaint about nutrition science is that one of its most important research tools, what people tell investigators about what they eat, is inherently untrustworthy. That’s because self-reports of any kind are inherently untrustworthy. People forget. And people lie."

January 23, 2016

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Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award

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