App for tracking food data, helps to lose weight

When you lose weight, some applications more reliable to do the work for you by the control diet data and prepare what your body the best researchers.

Smartphone users can over traditional methods an advantage when the data tracking system, found a team from Arizona State University.

For the study, researchers recruited healthy adults were randomly divided into groups according to their method of monitoring regime.

The groups were of those who formed the use of "Lose It!" App ingestion by memo function on their smartphones and with traditional paper and pencil to record their diet recorded.

Although the use of Smartphone has no effect on the total weight loss among the 47 participants who completed the study, researchers found a better monitoring of food for people in groups, the use of smartphones.

And groups of the memo paper and a pencil reported twice the number of days as the group with the application.

"The participants, the less frequently withdrew from the study than other groups an application on the market more systematically enrolled full days of dietary data compared to paper and pencil, and the group," said lead author Christopher Wharton.

"It is possible that the use of technology offers a less complicated data tracking tools by traditional method," he added.

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