I am back from Boston where I presented PhotoCalorie and AWLR data to Dr. Susan Roberts's research group at Tufts Human Nutrition Research Center. They were gracious hosts and I am very thankful for the opportunity. The main points of my talk highlighted how we believe PhotoCalorie could revolutionize the way dietary research is performed, by allowing the investigator to literally see what their study subjects are eating in real time, and objectively confirm that their description matches the foods depicted in the photo. Right now the gold standard in dietary research is a 3-day food record, which is scientific jargon for pen and paper. Check out a real copy of this incredible technology below!
Of course, when the researchers receive this piece of paper they have no choice but to trust that the study subject accurately portrayed the foods they ate, which massive amounts of research would refute. They tend to overreport healthy foods, under report foods deemed unhealthy, forget what they had for breakfast, etc.
The second portion of the talk dealt with AWLR and the huge amount of data we've collected. Over 3,100 people from over 55 countries, making AWLR one of the largest international databases of health and nutrition information to date.
Most surprising was when I was presenting all the randomized clinical trials supporting low carb, Dr. Susan Roberts stepped in and said "You are preaching to the choir. None of us believes low fat is the way to go at this point. Just too much evidence against it."
I couldn't believe my ears.
I was also told the 58 Native Americans who have registered (as of a few months ago) make AWLR probably the largest study of Native American diet in recent history. Interesting.
There was no video to share, but I gave a similar talk to the American Society of Bariatric Physicians last year that you can see here.
The second portion of the talk dealt with AWLR and the huge amount of data we've collected. Over 3,100 people from over 55 countries, making AWLR one of the largest international databases of health and nutrition information to date.
Most surprising was when I was presenting all the randomized clinical trials supporting low carb, Dr. Susan Roberts stepped in and said "You are preaching to the choir. None of us believes low fat is the way to go at this point. Just too much evidence against it."
I couldn't believe my ears.
I was also told the 58 Native Americans who have registered (as of a few months ago) make AWLR probably the largest study of Native American diet in recent history. Interesting.
There was no video to share, but I gave a similar talk to the American Society of Bariatric Physicians last year that you can see here.
More updates to come.... STAY TUNED!
With Adam Marcus PhD, PhotoCalorie co-founder and director of data at GoDaddy.
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