Enhancing Dietary Assessments and Nutritional Monitoring Through Digital Health Monitoring and Intervention
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition Methodology & Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 November 2025 | Viewed by 66
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intensive longitudinal data; wearables; real-time behavioral tracking; dietary and health behaviors; citizen health science
Interests: eating patterns; meal timing; dietary composition; taste preferences; sleep patterns; physical activity; appetite; obesity; energy regulation; chronic disease risk; psychological factors; dietary assessment methodology; wearable technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Traditional dietary assessment methods face challenges such as recall bias and low adherence. Digital health technologies—including wearables, mobile apps, and AI—offer innovative solutions for real-time, objective monitoring of eating behaviors and nutritional intake. This Special Issue explores cutting-edge approaches for improving dietary assessment accuracy, usability, and intervention effectiveness.
Please consider submitting original research manuscripts regarding in vivo, real-time tracking of eating behaviors. Empirical studies are our focus; however, submissions are not limited to these alone, but can also include theoretical articles, conceptual models, novel and innovative technologies, and field-wide reviews of technologies and applications. Approaches incorporating artificial intelligence approaches for the identification of ingestive behaviors, the context of use, total caloric or energy intakes, and feedback are all of particular interest.
I look forward to your submissions.
Prof. Dr. Theodore Walls
Dr. Megan A. McCrory
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wearable devices
- dietary assessment
- eating behavior
- food images
- eating patterns
- chrononutrition
- chronic disease risk
- internet of things (IoT)
- ambulatory monitoring
- ecological momentary assessment
- food photography
- real-time measurement
- intensive longitudinal data
- multiple behavior monitoring
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