Facebook May Be The Key To Tracking Obesity

The greater percentage of people in a city that list a healthy, active lifestyle under their Facebook interests, the lower that area's obesity rates are, a new study suggests. The study, led by by Rumi Chunara, PhD, and John Brownstein, PhD, of Boston Children's Hospital's Informatics Program (CHIP), and published in PLOS ONE examined geo-tagged Facebook user data and data from national and New York City-focused health surveys... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..