Journal
NUTRIENTS
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu13020422
Keywords
Nutrition app; smartphone; nutrition; COVID-19
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Funding
- Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
- Adelis Foundation
- Pearl Welinsky Merlo Scientific Progress Research Fund
- Lawrence and Sandra Post Family Foundation
- Daniel Morris Trust
- Park Avenue Charitable Fund
- The Hanna and Ludwik Wallach Cancer Research Fund
- Howard and Nancy Marks Charitable Fund
- Estate of Malka Moskowitz
- Estate of Myron H. Ackerman
- Estate of Bernard Bishin for the WIS-Clalit Program
- Donald and Susan Schwarz
- V. R. Schwartz Research Fellow Chair
- European Research Council
- Israel Science Foundation
- Israel Ministry of Science and Technology
- Israel Ministry of Health
- Helmholtz Foundation
- Else Kroener Fresenius Foundation
- Garvan Institute
- European Crohn's and Colitis Organization
- Deutsch-Israelische Projektkooperation
- Welcome Trust
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The global increase in COVID-19 cases has led to the adoption of social distancing and self-isolation, prompting the promotion of telemedicine by the CDC to reduce healthcare contact. While these changes may cause anxiety and hinder healthy living and seeking medical help, modern technology offers solutions to these issues.
The soar in COVID-19 cases around the globe has forced many to adapt to social distancing and self-isolation. In order to reduce contact with healthcare facilities and other patients, the CDC has advocated the use of telemedicine, i.e., electronic information and telecommunication technology. While these changes may disrupt normal behaviors and routines and induce anxiety, resulting in decreased vigilance to healthy diet and physical activity and reluctance to seek medical attention, they may just as well be circumvented using modern technology. Indeed, as the beginning of the pandemic a plethora of alternatives to conventional physical interactions were introduced. In this Perspective, we portray the role of SmartPhone applications (apps) in monitoring healthy nutrition, from their basic functionality as food diaries required for simple decision-making and nutritional interventions, through more advanced purposes, such as multi-dimensional data-mining and development of machine learning algorithms. Finally, we will delineate the emerging field of personalized nutrition and introduce pioneering technologies and concepts yet to be incorporated in SmartPhone-based dietary surveillance.
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