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Researchers develop new method using smartphones to track food consumption A team of researchers has devised a method using smartphones in order to measure food consumption an approach that also offers new ways to predict physical well-being. We ve harnessed the expanding presence of mobile and smartphones around the globe to measure food consumption over time with precision and with the potential to capture seasonal shifts in diet and food consumption patterns, explains Andrew Reid Bell, an assistant professor in New York University s Department of Environmental Studies and an author of the paper, which appears in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Food consumption has traditionally been measured by questionnaires that require respondents to recall what they ate over the previous 24 hours, to keep detailed consumption records over a three-to-four-day period, or to indicate their typical consumption patterns over one-week to one-month periods. Because these methods as

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