(1) Background. Early nutrition and lifestyle before and during pregnancy, breastfeeding, infancy, and early childhood can affect the risk of developing common non-communicable diseases during adulthood such as obesity and metabolic syndrome. To support positive long-term out-comes, it is essential to debunk fake news and provide evidence-based nutritional recommenda-tions. “Nutripedia-Informati per Crescere” is a new tool delivering information and education on appropriate nutrition of mothers and babies during pregnancy and the first years of life. (2) Meth-ods. Nutripedia provides the readers with evidence-based scientific contents in an easy-to-access fashion through a website, a social media page and a personalized advice app called “Nutripedia Chatbot”. (3) Results. Forty articles were published on Nutripedia website with more than 220,000 total views. Social channel activation via bloggers reached over 9 million parents. 14,698 users downloaded Nutripedia chatbot, through which a total of 1930 questions were directed to experts while over 24,000 responses were provided by the app. (4) Conclusion. The use of different commu-nication tools delivering evidence-based nutritional information such as Nutripedia is increasing and could offer supportive strategies to provide scientific information to large audiences and con-tribute fighting fake news. Future research could investigate the effectiveness of this important health campaign.
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Verduci, E., Vizzuso, S., Frassinetti, A., Mariotti, L., Del Torto, A., Fiore, G., … Zuccotti, G. V. (2021). Nutripedia: The fight against the fake news in nutrition during pregnancy and early life. Nutrients, 13(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13092998
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