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| Newspapers Can Help Predict Your Future Weight
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 21-July-2015
8:59:9 AM |
| Want to predict how obese a country's population will be in 3 years? Just check out what people are reading about food in newspapers!
After analysing 50 years of all the food words mentioned in major newspapers like the New York Times and London Times, a new study shows that the food words trending today in 2015 will predict a country's obesity level in three years.
"The more sweet snacks are mentioned and the fewer fruits and vegetables that are mentioned in your newspaper, the fatter your country's population is going to be in 3 years, according to trends we found from the past fifty years," said lead author, Brennan Davis, Associate Professor of Marketing from California State University at San Luis Obispo.
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"But the less often they're mentioned and the more vegetables are mentioned, the skinnier the public will be," said Mr Davis. The study analysed all of the different foods mentioned in stories in the New York Times (and London Times) and statistically correlated them with each country's annual Body Mass Index, or BMI, a measure of obesity.
While the number of mentions of sweet snacks were related to higher obesity levels 3 years later, the number of salty snack mentions were unrelated.
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