Nutrition Science and Everyday Application - beta v 0.1

Introduction to Nutrition Science and
Information Literacy
If you follow nutrition science in the media for long enough, you’ll start to see recurring
themes. You’ll see stories in the news about many of our favorite foods—like eggs, butter,
coffee, and chocolate—that seem to flip-flop about whether these foods are good or bad
for us. You’ll notice seemingly eternal debates about whether dietary fat and carbohydrates
are valuable macronutrients or villians. You’ll watch as particular diets come in and out of
fashion—and then back into fashion another decade or two later. And you’ll see countless
click-baity stories about the health benefits of eating so-called superfoods, or the dangers of
eating others.
Even if you don’t pay much attention to nutrition science in the news, you’ll hear a ton of
conflicting opinions and information just by talking to the people around you. Maybe your
best friend has gone gluten-free, your dad is on a keto diet, and your coworker swears the
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