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What should be the role of the media in nutrition communication?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2007

Laura Fernández-Celemín  and
Anna Jung
Laura Fernández-Celemín*
Affiliation:
European Food Information Council (EUFIC), 19 Rue Guimard, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
Anna Jung
Affiliation:
European Food Information Council (EUFIC), 19 Rue Guimard, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium
*
*Corresponding author: Dr Laura Fernández-Celemín, fax +32 2 506 89 80, email laura.fernandez@eufic.org
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Abstract

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The increasing availability of nutrition and health information has not always increased the knowledge of the general population, but presents them with the need to know and understand in order for choices to be made. While communicating science to the lay public, several challenges are encountered, ranging from the heterogeneity of the audience, the consumers, who demand certainty and a straightforward message, through the different aims and agendas of all the communicators, to the inherent complexity of the scientific message. Nowadays, the media is one major source of scientific information to the general public. The present article examines what the role of the media and scientists should be in bringing scientific communication to the public and how this communication could be improved.

Keywords

Science communicationNutrition communicationMedia
Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 96 , Issue S1 , August 2006 , pp. S86 - S88
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2006

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