Trust alone

“As advertised!”

Someone with an interest in getting people to use a nutrition intervention, such as making money, may overstate benefits and ignore possible harmful effects.

People urging others to use a nutrition intervention may just want to help. But they also may have other reasons, for example, to make money. This can lead them to exaggerate how good the nutrition intervention is and to ignore how harmful it may be.

Similarly, people urging others not to use a nutrition intervention may have different reasons for doing this, for example their moral beliefs.

BEWARE of claims about the effects of nutrition interventions made by people who make money from selling the nutrition intervention, or who have other interests besides helping people.

REMEMBER: Think about whether someone making a claim about the effects of a nutrition intervention will make money from selling it. If they do, be careful not to be fooled by their claim.