Background Traditional psychological theories are inadequate to fully leverage the potential
of smartphones and improve the effectiveness of physical activity (PA) and sedentary …

Background Increasing healthcare costs related to lifestyle-related chronic diseases require
new solutions. Research on self-management tools is expanding and many new tools are …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of smartphone apps as tools to
promote healthy eating behaviors, especially when ordering food and drinks in restaurants …

Background: Young adults (aged 18 to 35) are a population group at high risk for weight
gain, yet we know little about how to intervene in this group. Easy access to treatment and …

Una aplicación móvil o app, es un software diseñado para funcionar en teléfonos
inteligentes y otros dispositivos móviles. En los últimos años, estas apps han sufrido un …

BACKGROUND: Built environment and health research have focused on characteristics of
home neighborhoods, whereas overall environmental exposures occur over larger spatial …

This article provides an overview of research regarding adult behavioral lifestyle intervention
for obesity treatment. We first describe two trials using a behavioral lifestyle intervention to …

Evidence has shown that the trend of increasing obesity rates has continued in the last
decade. Mobile phone applications, benefiting from their ubiquity, have been increasingly …

Introduction Smartphone applications (apps) facilitate the collection of data on multiple
aspects of behavior that are useful for characterizing baseline patterns and for monitoring …

Mobile food logging is important but people find it tedious and difficult to do. Our work
tackles the challenging aspect of searching a large food database on a small mobile screen …