Oi, #tubby! You are what you Tweet, boffins find Boffins from the USA and Australia have constructed a “Lexicocalorimeter” that parses social media for mentions of food, discovering a correlation between people's wellbeing, and the foods and activities they mention on Twitter. In an ArXiv paper titled Gauging public health through caloric input and output on social media ( …
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but not too surprising, as it seems to match the trend in general conversation in my experience. Perhaps there's a correlation between what people post and what they say in conversation 1.0?
Pedantic note: can we please talk about "sugary" rather than "soft" drinks when talking about obesity? Very many soft drinks have negligible calories whereas some of the non-carbonated ones (including pure fruit juice and milk shakes) are highly calorific.
Have you ever read about the effects of Aspartame and other "sugar free" sweeteners? Aspartame in solution with water will break down into methyl alcohol when the temp gets over 120F. Last I heard, people go blind from that and it is cumulatively toxic in even small amounts. Lets not even discuss how bad once trusted drugs like Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen have proved to be. Question authority, as they are usually wrong.
High Fructose Corn Syrup and a whole pantheon of artificial sweeteners have done more to hurt peoples health than "natural" sweeteners have.
Please stop dissing real sugar and put some blame (where it belongs) on the unnatural products we eat for health problems.
Our concerns over cholesterol sources were wrong and margarine is bad for you now. Of course by the time any additional research comes to light it will have been too late and our arteries will be clogged full with Blue Bonnet.(a brand of margarine)
There is nothing wrong with sugar, soda or butter when used in reasonable moderation. Or anything else for that matter. The key is the word "moderation", most people haven't the faintest idea what that means.
So people who take lots of ibuprofen are at risk of heart attack or stroke. The people surveyed were mostly elderly and suffering from chronic arthritis or rheumatism pain, of course they're more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than young fit individuals, who may occasionally use NSAIDs for e.g. headache or sports injury.
The problem with places like Maine it could also be seasonal related to catch or market price. It's likely an influence for any place where you expect the dominant catch or harvest to be a popular topic. As for the things like cookies or candy, maybe there isn't a dominant crop or catch or the biggest economic factors aren't food related so folks do tweet what they eat.
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