推特上的10大熱門食物

You may think Twitter is used for just small talk - no-one can really convey a message in just 140 characters can they?

你也許覺得推特上只能進行簡單對話，畢竟只用140個字，能傳遞什麼信息呢？

But according to scientists, our tweets provide a valuable insight towards our diet and ultimately our health.

但科學家們表示，推文可以為我們了解飲食和健康狀況提供有價值的參考。

Coffee, beer and pizza were the most talked about food and drinks on the social media platform in the US last year, a study found.

一項研究表明，咖啡、啤酒和披薩是去年美國社交媒體平台上最常討論的三種食物及飲料。

Starbucks also featured highly, followed by yet more alcohol —which increases the risk of some types of cancer - in the forms of India Pale Ale and wine.

星巴克出現的頻率也很高，此外還有一些酒，如印度淡啤酒和葡萄酒。飲酒會增加某些癌症的患病率。

Shockingly, only one of the 10 most popular mentioned products was deemed "healthy" - chicken. BBQ, ice cream and tacos completed the list.

令人震驚的是，在網上最常出現的10種食物中，只有一種是健康的——雞肉。剩下三種食物是燒烤、冰淇淋和墨西哥玉米餅。

Researchers from the University of Utah assessed around 80 million geotagged tweets sent between mid-2014 and mid-2015. They then sorted through them to find 4 million (five percent) which had mentioned food or drink.

猶他大學的研究人員表示，從2014年6月到2015年6月，推特上有位置標記的推文約8000萬篇，進行分類後發現，有400萬篇（佔5%）提到了食物或飲品。

They then categorised them into either healthy options or the opposite. Researchers also conducted the same process for a range of exercises to determine the most popular.

研究人員隨後按是否健康對推特上提及的食物進行了劃分。他們還用相同的方法，總結出了最受歡迎的鍛煉方式。

However, scientists noticed a stark difference when comparing tweets with their socio-economic background.

然而，把推文和用戶的社會經濟背景進行對比後，科學家們發現了一個明顯的區別。

They found messages from poor areas were less likely to mention healthy foods while people living in dense areas were more likely to tweet about fast food.

來自貧民區的推文很少提到健康的食品，而人口密集區域的推文則常常討論快餐食品。

The study also found the areas which tweeted more about walking, dancing and running had fewer deaths and lower rates of obesity.

研究還發現，推文中經常討論散步、跳舞和跑步的區域，死亡率和肥胖率都較低。

Positive messages towards healthy foods were also related to reduced levels of chronic health conditions.

推文中積極討論健康食物的區域，慢性病的得病率也較低。

The 10 most popular foods

推文上的10大熱門食品

1. Coffee; 2. Beer; 3. Pizza; 4. Starbucks; 5. IPA; 6. Wine; 7. Chicken; 8. BBQ; 9. Ice cream; 10. Tacos

1．咖啡；2．啤酒；3．披薩；4．星巴克；5．印度淡啤酒；6．葡萄酒；7．雞肉；8．燒烤；9． 冰淇淋；10．墨西哥烤玉米餅