Functional Foods And Cancer On Pinterest And Pubmed: Myths And Science

The objective of this study was to identify the correlation between what Pinterest users share about food and cancer, and the scientific evidence on the relationship between cancer and consumption of specific foods. In order to do this, we used PubMed and studied 75 Pins published in Pinterest. We identified about 80,000 scientific articles in PubMed (US National Library of Medicine run by the National Institutes of Health)about cancer and those foods posted on Pinterest in Brazil. We observed that the Pins published in Pinterest have some relation to scientific information despite not being possible to establish if the correlation with the particular food and cancer involved prevention, cure or treatment.