Healthy eating‐1: Can people really judge whether foods are healthy?

Abstract

Dietary advice is given with the aim of improving health, either on a national scale, or at an individual level. The NACNE and COMA Reports have recommended changes in the British diet, and recent change has also occurred in dietary advice and treatment for conditions such as diabetes and bowel disease. However it is important to know how the general public, without nutritional training, view the health qualities of foods, and what influences these views, particularly as people assess food generally in non‐nutritional terms. Without this knowledge effective nutritional education cannot be undertaken.

Citation

McNeil, N.I. and McNeil, R. (1985), "Healthy eating‐1: Can people really judge whether foods are healthy?", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 85 No. 4, pp. 2-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb059070