Editorial

摘要

Television, radio, internet, scientificjournals, beauty magazines – one subject all ofthem have in common is dietary advice: newrecommendations, new studies, new opinions,new proofs. But we find out that what is truetoday is not so true anymore tomorrow and whatwe strongly believed in turns out to be a myth.One of my last beliefs fell apart by reading areport of the 2014 annual meeting of theAmerican Association for Cancer Research thatsuggests that the expected link between diet andcancer is very complex and that oldgrandmother’s saying, “an apple a day keeps thedoctor away”, is not necessarily true [1].