Quality assessment of nutrition coverage in the media: a 6-week survey of five popular UK newspapers.
Alice R KininmonthNafeesa JamilNasser AlmatroukCharlotte Elizabeth Louise EvansPublished in: BMJ open (2017)
The general public are regularly exposed to poor quality information in newspapers about what to eat to promote health, particularly articles reporting on obesity. Journalists, researchers, university press officers and scientific journals need to work together more closely to ensure clear, consistent nutrition messages are communicated to the public in an engaging way.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- mental health
- physical activity
- adverse drug
- health information
- cross sectional
- metabolic syndrome
- insulin resistance
- public health
- weight loss
- type diabetes
- high fat diet induced
- weight gain
- affordable care act
- emergency department
- systematic review
- social media
- quality improvement
- body mass index
- skeletal muscle
- clinical trial
- drug induced