Introduction to Nutrition cont’d 2

     How many times have you heard claims about how healthful certain foods are for you?

• As consumers focus more and more on diet and disease, food manufacturers are asserting that their products have all sorts of health benefits:
• “Take fish oil capsules to avoid a heart attack.”
• “Eat more olive oil and oat bran to lower blood cholesterol.”
• Hearing these claims, you would think that food manufacturers have solutions to all of our health problems.