COMS 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Health Communication, Managed Care, Social Support
15 Nov 2016
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Reading #1: sorry, there"s nothing magi(cid:272)al a(cid:271)out breakfast. There are many studies that show an association between skipping breakfast and poor health. This topic is one that suffers from publication bias - in a paper published in the american. Journal of clinical nutrition in 2013, researchers reviewed literature on the effect of breakfast on obesity to look specifically at this issue. They first noted that nutrition researchers love to publish results showing a correlation between skipping breakfast and obesity. They love to do so again and again. At some point, there is no reason to continue publishing this. People were consistently biased in interpreting their results in favour of a relationship between skipping breakfast and obesity. Good reviews of all the observational research note the methodological flaws in this domain, as well as the problems of combining in the results of publication-bias- influenced studies into a meta-analysis.
