Course Information
Course Overview
Learn how to find reliable information about diet and health
Every day, people all over the world are deluged with information about diet, health and medicine. The problem is that most of it is incorrect. The medical journals are filled with studies plagued with conflicts of interest, poor study design, and meaningless conclusions. This is made worse by misreporting by the media. But there is good and accurate information available too and the secret is to learn how to tell difference. Dr. Pam Popper Ph.D author of Food Over Medicine and featured in the NETFLIX popular documentaries Food Choices and Forks Over Knives, will show you how to become an empowered and enlightened consumer of research, be able to discern the reliable from the unreliable and how to apply this information to your own daily life.
Course Content
- 1 section(s)
- 12 lecture(s)
- Section 1 How read and understand diet and health research?
What You’ll Learn
- Feel empowered with tips and information of how to understand diet and health research, Discern facts from fiction when it comes to diet and health topics, Feel more confident discussing diet and health related topics with others, Understand how the media and medical establishment produces misinformation
Reviews
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BBianca Peereboom
She seems to fall in the traps she warns against with samples which seems slightly dogmatic and opinionated
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AAmy Reiland
Great introduction to looking at and critically thinking about health research!
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LLou & Barry
Well presented with examples for reference.
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EEric Thompson
So far, so good.