Toward Objective Monitoring of Ingestive Behavior in Free-living Population

Understanding of eating behaviors associated with obesity requires objective and accurate monitoring of food intake patterns. Accurate methods are available for measuring total energy expenditure and its components in free‐living populations, but methods for measuring food intake in free‐living peop...

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Published in:Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) Md.), 2009-10, Vol.17 (10), p.1971-1975
Main Authors: Sazonov, Edward S., Schuckers, Stephanie A.C., Lopez‐Meyer, Paulo, Makeyev, Oleksandr, Melanson, Edward L., Neuman, Michael R., Hill, James O.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Deglutition
Diabetes
Eating
Eating behavior
Energy
Etiology
Feeding Behavior
Female
Food
Humans
Male
Mastication
Models, Biological
Obesity
Overweight
Physiology
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Summary:Understanding of eating behaviors associated with obesity requires objective and accurate monitoring of food intake patterns. Accurate methods are available for measuring total energy expenditure and its components in free‐living populations, but methods for measuring food intake in free‐living people are far less accurate and involve self‐reporting or subjective monitoring. We suggest that chews and swallows can be used for objective monitoring of ingestive behavior. This hypothesis was verified in a human study involving 20 subjects. Chews and swallows were captured during periods of quiet resting, talking, and meals of varying size. The counts of chews and swallows along with other derived metrics were used to build prediction models for detection of food intake, differentiation between liquids and solids, and for estimation of the mass of ingested food. The proposed prediction models were able to detect periods of food intake with >95% accuracy and a fine time resolution of 30 s, differentiate solid foods from liquids with >91% accuracy, and predict mass of ingested food with >91% accuracy for solids and >83% accuracy for liquids. In earlier publications, we have shown that chews and swallows can be captured by noninvasive sensors that could be developed into a wearable device. Thus, the proposed methodology could lead to the development of an innovative new way of assessing human eating behavior in free‐living conditions.
ISSN:1930-7381
1930-739X
DOI:10.1038/oby.2009.153