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The contents of articles on nutrition in life cycle, health and disease in the Korean daily newspapers were analyzed for the evaluation of the trends in nutrition information in mass media. Among 922 articles pressed from January 1960 to June 1996, articles on nutrition in life cycle were most frequently appeared, which is followed by articles on nutrition in disease, health foods and other related food and nutrition informations. There was a deep contrast in that the proportion of articles on nutrition in life cycle decreased from 58% in the 60´s to 33% in the 90´s, and those of nutrition in disease, and health foods increased from 23% and 5% in 60´s to 34% and 18% in 90´s, respectively.
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