Health Literacy Hit Close to Home
This week I learned a thing or two about health literacy. In my Nutrition Communication class we discussed nutrition misinformation and how it can prey on the people who are not very health literate, which is a rampant problem. As I was going through articles and videos about it I thought that it was very sad, and that the situation should be rectified. Research articles are one of my favorite things, so I'm used to big, scary health words. When I thought of the people I personally know, I conceded that maybe they might struggle a bit. But they're smart people, they would probably be fine. And that was that. Fast forward a few days to a conversation with my sister. Whenever I had trouble in school I always went to her for help, especially for math. She was that weird exception where she was good at math AND language arts (I'm still only able to do the one). Anyway, my sister recently did the Whole30 diet. We started talking about...