Assessing temporal eating pattern in free living humans through the myCircadianClock app.

ABSTRACT: The quality and quantity of nutrition impact health. However, chrononutrition, the timing, and variation of food intake in relation to the daily sleep-wake cycle are also important contributors to health. This has necessitated an urgent need to measure, analyze, and optimize eating patterns to improve health and manage disease. While written food journals, questionnaires, and 24-hour dietary recalls are acceptable methods to assess the quantity and quality of energy consumption, they are insufficient to capture the timing and day-to-day variation of energy intake. Smartphone applications are novel methods for information-dense real-time food and beverage tracking. Despite the availability of thousands of commercial nutrient apps, they almost always ignore eating patterns, and the raw real-

SUBMITTER: Manoogian ENC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9678076 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature