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How to read and understand diet and health research?
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Rating: 4.6 out of 5(39 ratings)
143 students
Created byMichal Siewierski, Pam Popper
Last updated 11/2016
English

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

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 1h 35m total length

  • In pursuit of truth2:57

    Apply Karl Popper's scrutiny to nutrition claims, testing ideas before accepting headlines or cherry-picked studies about grains, vitamin D, omega-3s, or red wine.

  • How to manipulate science and the media11:29
  • Understanding different types of research19:34
  • Issues to consider when reading research7:37
  • Statistical significance5:48
  • Exagerating risk, misleading information and reductionism18:56
  • Industry funding - looking beyond the headlines10:05

    Assess industry funding with a critical eye, seeking independent verification across many studies, because headlines can mislead and a single study rarely tells the whole story.

  • Relative vs Absolute Findings6:12
  • Chance findings and original studies3:40
  • Surrogate Markers and Health Benefits3:11
  • Short term vs long term studies, replication2:36
  • Now what?3:48

Requirements

  • You should be able to use a PC or Mac at a basic beginner level

Description

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. 

Who this course is for:

  • People looking for reliable information on diet and health
  • People interested in learning how to discern facts from fiction

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