Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/eK0gG8io0SY   Your friends eating habits, known to you via Twitter, Instagram, and TicTok, profoundly influence your own.  When they eat fruits and vegetables, you will be more likely to do the same now that you know.   A study from the UK’s Aston University surveyed 369 undergrads about their eating habits and media use.  Besides the positive, the tabulated results also show that junk food fans pass their bad habits to their online followers.   You have to power to get yourself healthy and do the same for your friends.   If you aren’t eating healthy, pretend you are online as a gift to your friends.  Then think about why you have to pretend.   Lily K. Hawkins, Claire Farrow, Jason M. Thomas. Do perceived norms of social media users’ eating habits and preferences predict our own food consumption and BMI? Appetite, 2020; 149: 104611 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2020.104611   #socialmedia #eating #diet #twitter #instagram #tictok #facebook