10 Feb 2020 --- Social media users are more likely to eat fruit and veg – or snack on junk food – if they think their friends do the same, a new study has found. The research, by Aston University's School of Life and Health Sciences, found that participants ate an extra fifth of a portion of fruit and vegetables themselves for every portion they thought their social media peers ate. Interestingly, if they believed their friends got their “five-a-day” of fruit and vegetable, they were more likely to consume an extra portion themselves.
