A Country's Future Obesity is Predicted by Today's Trending Food Stories (IMAGE)

Cornell Food & Brand Lab

A Country's Future Obesity is Predicted by Today's Trending Food Stories

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What you're reading now secretly tells you whether your country will be skinnier or fatter in three years. After analyzing 50 years of all the food words mentioned in major newspapers like the New York Times and London Times, a new Cornell study shows that the food words trending today in 2015 will predict a country's obesity level in three years -- in 2018.

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Patricia Natalie

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