{"id":159,"date":"2016-11-23T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/policy360\/?p=159"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:24:52","slug":"what-health-secrets-do-our-grocery-receipts-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policy360.org\/2016\/11\/23\/what-health-secrets-do-our-grocery-receipts-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 27: What Health Secrets Do Our Grocery Receipts Hold?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While Emily Oster was pregnant, she evaluated data behind many of the accepted rules of pregnancy. (Should you drink caffeine? Is sushi OK?) She says most advice given to moms-to-be is wrong. More recently, she’s been studying how grocery store purchases change once a person has been diagnosed with a health challenge like diabetes. The household scanner data “helps us look at people outside of a monitored health setting, and really see in the real world what are the changes people make, what changes are impossible to make, and who is able to change a lot,” she says.<\/p>\n