Developed by researchers at UA, a wearable device called the Automatic Ingestion Monitor passively records a person’s caloric intake by monitoring the type and quantity of food a person eats! The device requires no self-reporting from the user; only compliance in wearing it, as it detects food eaten, characterizes the microstructure of the food and captures images of the food being eaten and estimates the caloric intake of the user. This technology may even assist in linking diet and chronic disease outcomes such as obesity and cancer! “This is a big project, so it’s exciting to get to this point where we can use a novel tool in a major nutritional study... One of our goals has always been for this to be used clinically, and inclusion in this study is further validation of the technology that helps us gain more ground in proving its usefulness.” -- Dr. Edward Sazonov, professor of electrical and computer engineering whose lab invented the technology at UA. For more info → link in b...