Wansink Brian
Cornell University, Ithica, NY, USA.
J Am Diet Assoc. 2006 Apr;106(4):601-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2006.02.019.
It is the position of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) that food and nutrition misinformation can have harmful effects on the health, well-being, and economic status of consumers. Nationally credentialed dietetics professionals working in health care, academia, public health, the media, government, and the food industry are uniquely qualified to advocate for and promote science-based nutrition information to the public, function as primary nutrition educators to health professionals, and actively correct food and nutrition misinformation. Enormous scientific advances have been made in the area of food and nutrition, leading to a fine-tuning of recommendations about healthful eating. Consumers have become increasingly aware of the nutrition-health link and reliant on nutrition information to base their decisions, and have assumed partial responsibility for changing their eating behaviors. Unfortunately, these same trends also create opportunities for food and nutrition misinformation to flourish. News reports rarely provide enough context for consumers to interpret or apply the advice given, and preliminary findings often attract unmerited and misleading attention. Effective nutrition communication must be consumer-friendly and contain sufficient context to allow consumers to consider the information and determine whether it applies to their unique health and nutritional needs. Consistent with ADA's organizational vision that members "are the leading source of nutrition expertise," ADA recognizes its responsibility to help consumers identify food and nutrition misinformation in the following ways: (a) ADA members should provide consumers with sound, science-based nutrition information and help them to recognize misinformation; (b) ADA members need to be the primary source of sound, science-based nutrition information for the media and to inform them when misinformation is presented; and (c) ADA members should continue to diligently work with other health care practitioners, educators, policy makers, and food and dietary supplement industry representatives to responsibly address the health and psychological, physiological, and economic effects of nutrition-related misinformation.
美国饮食协会（ADA）的立场是，食品和营养方面的错误信息会对消费者的健康、幸福和经济状况产生有害影响。在医疗保健、学术界、公共卫生、媒体、政府和食品行业工作的具有国家资质的饮食专业人员，具备独特的资格向公众倡导和推广基于科学的营养信息，担任健康专业人员的主要营养教育者，并积极纠正食品和营养方面的错误信息。食品和营养领域已经取得了巨大的科学进步，从而对健康饮食建议进行了微调。消费者越来越意识到营养与健康的联系，并依赖营养信息来做出决策，而且已经承担起部分改变自身饮食行为的责任。不幸的是，这些相同的趋势也为食品和营养错误信息的泛滥创造了机会。新闻报道很少为消费者提供足够的背景信息来解读或应用所给出的建议，而初步研究结果往往会吸引不应有的和误导性的关注。有效的营养沟通必须对消费者友好，并包含足够的背景信息，以便消费者考虑这些信息并确定其是否适用于他们独特的健康和营养需求。与ADA的组织愿景一致，即成员“是营养专业知识的主要来源”，ADA认识到其有责任通过以下方式帮助消费者识别食品和营养错误信息：（a）ADA成员应向消费者提供可靠的、基于科学的营养信息，并帮助他们识别错误信息；（b）ADA成员需要成为媒体获取可靠的、基于科学的营养信息的主要来源，并在出现错误信息时告知媒体；（c）ADA成员应继续与其他医疗保健从业者、教育工作者、政策制定者以及食品和膳食补充剂行业代表勤奋合作，以负责任地应对与营养相关的错误信息对健康、心理、生理和经济的影响。
