THE [T]RUTH
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The [T]ruth is an outlet that I created to offer my views and provide an alternative and refreshing take on everything nutrition and health-related. When it comes to health, I feel that as a society we have reached an exigency in terms of overall fitness and well-being. With everything ranging from the obesity epidemic to the growing number of those affected by auto-immune diseases, collectively we are getting sicker by the generation. Additionally, as mediated communication becomes more accessible, we are constantly inundated with an overabundance of health-related messages and it becomes impossible to know who's word to believe. Making things worse, the recent popularity of the fitness craze combined with the freedom of social media has deemed everyone an expert when it comes to anything working out. Just log onto Facebook and you will instantly be oversaturated with a slew of workout tips, food recipes and inspirational quotes. The purpose of this site is to push back against many of our commonly held beliefs and assumptions about health and nutrition and see things for what they are. The goal is to help filter out "the noise" and get back to the simplicity of understanding health. Fusing academic research with popular opinion, The [T]ruth aims to offer a perspective that is both grounded in research as well as practical and applied. From a critical perspective, The [T]ruth employs a comprehensive approach in touching on everything relating to our health. Areas of inquiry are wide ranging, and will touch on topics such as: the role that mediated communication plays in our food choices, food insecurity in the United States, the corporatizing of the modern food industry and issues of power and privilege in health related discourse, all through the lens of health communication.
*The stylized [T] in the title stems from ancient Cartesian philosophy, which argues that our world is compromised of 2 truths: truth with a lowercase "t," which essentially refers to truth as it relates to social construction (i.e. moral truths), and truth with a capital "T," which is based on science and considered absolute. Bar none, this blogsite brings you the truth with a capital [T] when it comes to health and nutrition research.
*The stylized [T] in the title stems from ancient Cartesian philosophy, which argues that our world is compromised of 2 truths: truth with a lowercase "t," which essentially refers to truth as it relates to social construction (i.e. moral truths), and truth with a capital "T," which is based on science and considered absolute. Bar none, this blogsite brings you the truth with a capital [T] when it comes to health and nutrition research.
ABOUT ME
My name is Andrew Carter. I have 10+ years of experience as a training/nutrition coach. My interests in health and nutrition stem from my passion for research, as I have studied a broad variety of training methodologies to better adhere to a wide-ranging clientele. I have a Master’s degree in communication studies with an emphasis in rhetoric. I am currently pursuing my PhD in health communication at the University of Memphis, where my research focuses on health-related messages as they pertain to areas of food and nutrition. More specifically, I critically examine elements of culture, power and inequality, influence, meaning construction, consumer participation, and voice in public discourses on health.
University of Memphis bio: http://www.memphis.edu/communication/people/grad_students/carter.php