Food news can get you dizzy, so know what to swallow.

HEALTH in mass media; NUTRITION; PUBLIC health -- United States; FIBER in human nutrition

Health, Wellness, & Medicine; Health, Wellness, & Medicine

Discusses the inconsistency of food and nutrition news reported in the United States media. Tendency of people to overreact to the findings of clinical studies involving food; Overview of the media's representation of the study of fiber's health benefits; Incompatibility between the demands of science and those of news; How shifting public health messages create confusion among consumers. INSETS: Less-than-scary health scares, by Avery Comarow;Read closely before you go whole hog.