The science behind health reports

Studies from medical and scientific journals appear regularly in the media, preceded by attractive headlines like Eating grapes prevents cancer to tease us. TEE SHIAO EEK dons her lab coat to help the layperson understand the science of research and how to look at reported studies with a critical eye. 

FIRST we were told that fats were bad for us. Then, we read that there were good fats and bad fats. Eat less animal fats, they said, but lots of oily fish!