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Current precision nutrition products and nutrigenomics concepts promoted on social media frequently contain misleading or untrue information, particularly regarding the readiness of personalized diets and the ability of specific foods to alter DNA.
Be skeptical of social media posts claiming that specific diets or supplements can change your DNA or that personalized nutrition products are ready for general use. The scientific consensus is that these technologies are not yet ready for broad application, and many products contain misleading or untrue information. Focus on evidence-based dietary patterns rather than unproven genetic tailoring products.
A total of 14.9% (75/504) of the tweets were noted to contain untrue information; these were most likely to occur in the nutrigenomics concepts topic category.
Why this rating
Quantitative content analysis of a large sample (n=504) with expert fact-checking.
Source
Characterizing Precision Nutrition Discourse on Twitter: Quantitative Content Analysis
Sapna Batheja et al. · Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2023
DOI 10.2196/43701
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