Tweet PyschologyToday.com published an article yesterday titled “Why Changing Somebody’s Mind, or Yours, is Hard to Do.”  I maintain that understanding human behavior is under-appreciated when trying to relay nutritional messages to others, so periodically i’ll update with articles like this.  Knowing why people resist new information can be used to take a new approach, and hopefully [...]

Tweet Bora at A Blog Around the Clock posted a well written piece about expertise in journalism yesterday.  He describes a division of experts and generalists; obviously the experts are those who have spent years studying a specific topic and understand it inside and out, and these are the people who should be communicating on [...]

Tweet Human tendencies are anything but objective.  Most people form opinions on topics without a thorough understanding of the scientific literature, which then influence subsequent interpretations.  In the nutritional science realm, ignorance is a large contributor to the current state of confusion, but even if people hear messages from accurate sources, they will most will [...]