Seeds of Change: Can Healthy Additives Transform Foods’ Health Perceptions?

Climate Change Conceptual Change: Scientific Information Can Transform Attitudes

Of this article's seven experiments, the first five demonstrate that virtually no Americans know the basic global warming mechanism. Fortunately, Experiments 2-5 found that 2-45 min of physical-chemical climate instruction durably increased such understandings. This mechanistic learning, or merely receiving seven highly germane statistical facts (Experiment 6), also increased climate-change acc...

False beliefs about fattening foods can have healthy consequences.

We suggested to 228 subjects in two experiments that, as children, they had had negative experiences with a fattening food. An additional 107 subjects received no such suggestion and served as controls. In Experiment 1, a minority of subjects came to believe that they had felt ill after eating strawberry ice cream as children, and these subjects were more likely to indicate not wanting to eat s...

Adverse reactions to foods and food additives.

States Can Transform Their Health Care Workforce.

The United States faces the simultaneous challenges of improving health care access and balancing the specialty and geographic distribution of physicians. A 2014 Institute of Medicine report recommended significant changes in Medicare graduate medical education (GME) funding, to incentivize innovation and increase accountability for meeting national physician workforce needs. Annually, nearly $...

Guidelines for Assessment of the Effect of Foods on Health for Food Additives

This document is an English version of the Guidelines for Assessment of the Effect of Foods on Health for Food Additives published by the Food Safety Commission, Cabinet Office of Japan in May 2010. Although the contents were reviewed by both Dr. Shoji Fukushima (Director, Japan Bioassay Research Center) and Dr. Dai Nakae (Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan Institut...