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Social media data accurately reflects state-level food environments and obesity rates. This novel approach uses Yelp and MyFitnessPal data to predict obesity, outperforming traditional survey methods.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Data Science
  • Nutritional Epidemiology

Background:

  • Community obesity rates are influenced by the local food environment.
  • Traditional food accessibility measures rely on costly and static survey data.
  • Social media offers a dynamic, cost-effective alternative for food environment assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between state-level food environments and obesity rates using social media data.
  • To develop a predictive model for obesity rates based on food environment characteristics derived from social media.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Yelp for food categories and MyFitnessPal for caloric data of popular dishes.
  • Calculated average calories per category and developed weighted scores for each state.
  • Incorporated access, acceptability, and affordability dimensions to build obesity prediction models.

Main Results:

  • Social media-derived food environment data significantly correlated with state obesity rates (Pearson r=0.796).
  • The model accurately predicted obesity rates compared to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
  • A model incorporating three feature sets demonstrated optimal performance.

Conclusions:

  • A novel method was proposed to characterize state-level food environments using continuously updated social media data.
  • Social media data effectively describes food environments and highlights disparities linked to obesity rates.
  • The methodology is adaptable for various community sizes and effective for obesity prediction.