What you eat is influenced by the food choices of people you dine with

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Who you select to consume with affects what you choose to consume, according to a research study of 38 million food purchases at a university school over 8 years.

Kristina Gligorić at the Swiss Federal Institute of Innovation in Lausanne and her coworkers tracked purchases made on school utilizing clever cards. The group tracked the consuming routines of 39,000 anonymised trainees and personnel from 2010 to 2018. Typically, individuals’s purchases were tracked for 578 days and they went to stores, coffee shops, dining establishments and vending devices 188 times.

Of the 39,000 …