text_1: Cancer-fighting spices offer flavorful way to eat healthy
text_2: This story relies on the musings of chef Floyd Cardoz, backed by references to petri dish studies, to support its claims about the “cancer-fighting” properties of various spices. If this half-baked story were a dish at one of Cardoz’s restaurants, it’d be sent back to the kitchen for a refire. We offer a variety of suggestions below in this review for how the story could have been more accurate and informative. Stories like this one — which don’t make even the most cursory effort to get their facts straight — are dangerous. They reinforce the idea that there are “quick fixes” to preventing a disease as implacable as cancer. They contribute to the confusing mix of health messages that cause consumers to tune out in frustration. They make it harder to reach readers with potentially useful, evidence-based information that could improve health.