Oh Hello…

My name is Ari Tissenbaum and I am a first year Culinary Management student at George Brown. A topic in nutrition that interests me are fad diets. Recently I have been learning about Keto diets and the problems associated with it. I would like to learn more about these kind of diets while going through this course.

Nutrition is definitely a focus in the culinary world today. As consumers become more and more aware of what they are purchasing and consuming, nutrition becomes more of a focal point of these decisions. If consumers are becoming more aware that means the trends in restaurants are changing with them and rightly so. So yes nutrition does and will play an important role in the industry because that is the demand of the consumer.

I choose https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/ as my reliable nutrition website. I believe this website to be reliable because it was created by using scientific research and not basing off of opinion or influence. Also the website does not advertise any products and only provides information and fact based advice. Lastly this website comes from the Government of Canada and despite my best judgment I choose to believe the information they provide. I believe that the utmost time and research went into creating the website and guide and the information provided is factual.

For my unreliable website I choose https://www.naturalnews.com/. To me this site is unreliable from the jump. All you have to do is read its front page. The articles being displayed all contain extremely click bait titles that don’t contain any reliable health information. All the articles and blogs on the website are all opinion based. None of the information provided is backed by scientific research. The website is also covered in ads promoting the best anti-oxidant formulas and other detox formulas. This screams red flags to me. These kind of products use buzzy words to promote useless products and if a website stands behind and promotes these products I can deem them to be unreliable.