Journal
FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2020.00080
Keywords
objective; assessment; eating; wearable; technology
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Funding
- UKRI Innovation Fellowship from Health Data Research UK [MR/S003894/1, MR/T018984/1]
- University of Bristol
- Medical Research Council [MC_UU_00011/6]
- Jean Golding Institute at the University of Bristol
- Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research a Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support fund
- MRC [MR/S003894/1, MC_UU_12013/7, MC_UU_00011/6, MR/T018984/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Established methods for nutritional assessment suffer from a number of important limitations. Diaries are burdensome to complete, food frequency questionnaires only capture average food intake, and both suffer from difficulties in self estimation of portion size and biases resulting from misreporting. Online and app versions of these methods have been developed, but issues with misreporting and portion size estimation remain. New methods utilizing passive data capture are required that address reporting bias, extend timescales for data collection, and transform what is possible for measuring habitual intakes. Digital and sensing technologies are enabling the development of innovative and transformative new methods in this area that will provide a better understanding of eating behavior and associations with health. In this article we describe how wrist-worn wearables, on-body cameras, and body-mounted biosensors can be used to capture data about when, what, and how much people eat and drink. We illustrate how these new techniques can be integrated to provide complete solutions for the passive, objective assessment of a wide range of traditional dietary factors, as well as novel measures of eating architecture, within person variation in intakes, and food/nutrient combinations within meals. We also discuss some of the challenges these new approaches will bring.
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