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What online data say about eating habits

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Understanding how individuals shift to diets with much smaller ecological footprints may help us in persuading more people to change their habits and transition to more sustainable food systems. Online interactions provide important answers.

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Trattner, C., Elsweiler, D. What online data say about eating habits. Nat Sustain 2, 545–546 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0329-8

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