Large-scale diet tracking data reveal disparate associations between food environment and diet.

ABSTRACT: An unhealthy diet is a major risk factor for chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer^1-4. Limited access to healthy food options may contribute to unhealthy diets^5,6. Studying diets is challenging, typically restricted to small sample sizes, single locations, and non-uniform design across studies, and has led to mixed results on the impact of the food environment^7-23. Here we leverage smartphones to track diet health, operationalized through the self-reported consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, fast food and soda, as well as body-mass index status in a country-wide observational study of 1,164,926 U.S. participants (MyFitnessPal app users) and 2.3 billion food entries to study the independent contributions of fa

SUBMITTER: Althoff T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8766578 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature