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Comment author: DanArmak 14 February 2014 09:02:54PM 0 points [-]

the amount of food people eat correlates with the number of people they eat with

That's interesting. Does it correlate positively or negatively? And how strongly, with what other assumptions or conditions?

Comment author: mbitton24 14 February 2014 09:29:00PM -1 points [-]

"Nudge" says more people means more eating.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/90/2/282.full.pdf

http://devpsychopathologyru.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2009-Modeling-of-palatable-food-intake.-The-influence-of-quality-of-social-interaction.pdf

http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2276563/reload=0;jsessionid=pcefhmQohIp1CPVmEpqG.2

https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/231463/original/Vartanian%252Bet%252Bal%252B%2525282008%252529.pdf

This article suggests it's more complicated:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14599286

It's also believed that obesity is contagious across social networks:

http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3710802/Christakis_SpreadofObesity.pdf?sequence=2

But this article suggests otherwise:

http://medicine.yale.edu/labs/fletcher/www/ccf.pdf

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