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What online data say about eating habits

Nature Sustainability volume 2, pages 545–546 (2019)Cite this article

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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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  1. Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Christoph Trattner

  2. Information Science, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    David Elsweiler

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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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