Are nutrition messages in popular women's magazines consistent with dietary recommendations?

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Radimer, Kathy L. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    1996-09
    Published:
    Australia
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23105
    Journal Title:
    Australian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics
    Journal Title Details:
    53(3) : 107-113
    Subject Term:
    accuracy, journals, mass media, message content, nutrition, nutrition education, nutrition information, women, and diets
    Notes:
    Findings "suggest a more active role for nutritionists in encouraging magazines to increase the proportion of messages that promote widely-accepted dietary recommendations and decrease the proportion that focus on more tangential aspects of nutrition."

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