Lessons from Smart Cart 2.0: Considerations for Integrating Purchasing Data into Healthy Eating Interventions with AI Approaches☆
Maya K Vadiveloo, Alison Tovar, Anne N Thorndike · 2026
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Maya Vadiveloo, Alison Tovar, and Anne Thorndike drew lessons in 2026 from Smart Cart 2.0, a digital tool that uses shopping data to nudge healthier eating. Poor diet drives long-term disease, high care costs, and early death in the United States and worldwide. Eating habits grow from body, mind, setting, and social forces acting together.
Digital tools cut both ways, since targeted ads and pricing can push poor choices. The authors argue that gains hinge on careful rollout, not speed. Guards against early, unproven use should sit beside the promise of personal help at scale. Purchase data, they contend, can improve such tools if privacy and fairness are handled with care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maya K Vadiveloo, Alison Tovar, Anne N Thorndike |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |