5 Misleading Headlines Sponsored By The Food Industry
Why you should be wary of Big Blueberry, Big Pasta, and Big Nut
We love stories about food and health. There’s nothing like hearing that your favorite bowl of cereal, or your cheeky midnight cheese, might be healthier than you thought. It’s the quintessential modern desire — that we can control our lives not just with medicines and doctors, but with the foods we eat and the way we cook them.
It’s inspired the entire field of (shudder) nutraceuticals.
And along the way, our desire to be healed by the things we eat has inspired some truly wonderful headlines. We can’t go a week without being told that some new research has come out proving that the latest food fad is going to cure your Athlete’s Foot.
The thing is, while the media is happy to play to our desires, there’s also something a little shady about a lot of food headlines. Many of them aren’t quite as organic as you might think.
Here are 5 times the food industry has funded research that has ended up misleading you in the news.
