NUTRITION IN THE DIGITAL AGE - How digital tools can help to solve the personalized nutrition conundrum

Conclusions: We outline how a conceptual self-learning expert system could implement this approach, based on multifactorial lifestyle interventions, and give specific examples in the contexts of diabetes and obesity. Combining behaviour and physiological responses into a single entity removes the requirement to measure food intake, enabling users to map their individualised ‘path of least resistance’ to specific health outcomes. This new approach could be provided at minimal cost by leveraging users existing mobile devices, e.g. smart phones, watches, fitbits etc. The novelty in this concept is that the methodology purposely does not attempt to understand the complexity of the underlying physiological, metabolic and psychological responses. Despite requiring scientifically validated biomarkers, understanding the discrete influences of each of these factors is not required to drive improved individual-level outcomes.
Source: Trends in Food Science and Technology - Category: Food Science Source Type: research