Consumers’ Diet and Nutrition IQs Could Use a Boost

Just how much do consumers know about matters of diet and health? Not as much as they think they do, according to a recent survey of more than 500 registered dietitians conducted by nutrition trade magazine Today’s Dietitian and Pollock Communications, a public relations agency focused on health and wellness issues.

Asked about trends for 2014, two-thirds (67%) of the dietitians surveyed said that in their experience, U.S. consumers’ nutrition information is based not on peer-reviewed…