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EIT Food online course: Food and Nutrition: The Truth Behind Food Headlines

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Learn how to find reliable, scientific information about food and nutrition and identify the truth behind food headlines.

Join the course for free

What topics will you cover?

• How to analyse a headline by understanding the biases that we, as readers, bring to our understanding of food and nutrition stories.

• Become familiar with the journalist’s perspective, the agenda behind the story and the hooks used to make readers interested.

• Discover how to find out about the original science the story is based on and understand how to interpret the results of the research.

• Learn about the regulations surrounding food and nutrition and where to find reliable sources of information.

• Understand the processes of publishing scientific articles

• Use tools that help identify unreliable sources of information

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