Responses to misinformation
DAA, DAA Spokespeople and DAA members are constantly discussing credible nutrition information with the public, through the media. This:
- Positions APDs as the experts in this arena
- Helps to ‘dilute’ the incorrect and misleading nutrition information that is sometimes printed or aired.
But DAA also regularly responds to inaccurate or misleading stories on nutrition.
DAA responds to the misinformation in the media
- Medical Observer, October 2011
- Daily Telegraph, August 2011
- Sun Herald, July 2011
- Sunday Life, February 2011
- Nova radio (Melbourne), February 2011
- Canberra Times, January 2011
- Fitness First, October 2010
APDs play a role in addressing misinformation
DAA encourages APDs (and members of the public) to alert DAA to poor reporting on nutrition issues, and to also contact the media as individuals at any time to express dissatisfaction with inaccurate nutrition stories that are printed or aired. Most media outlets have details on their website on how to write to the editor or producer.
An excellent example of this is a letter to the editor written by WA-based APD Ali Johnson: