Friday, April 15, 2016

Bone Health in the Media: Don't Trust Everything You Read

Walking and water aerobics won't help preserve your bone health, but lifting heavy will.

When it comes to health, fitness, and nutrition information, the entertainment and news media usually get it wrong for plenty of reasons. Research can be complicated and hard to condense into a useful sound bite, or a journalist might lack the big-picture significance of what's already been studied. Well-supported data like, “Most people should eat more vegetables” doesn't exactly sell magazine copy.


 


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