Oh, What Those Oats Did

Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

"Health claim" labels that link nutrients to disease prevention have a contentious history involving regulators, corporations, and the public. The "oat bran craze" of the late 1980s demonstrated how health claims have enormous profit potential, but also the need for regulation of these claims.

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