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Mobile Apps and Eating Disorders
The expansion of mobile monitoring applications for mobile phone coincides with increasing rates of eating disorders in America. of the almost 40 iphone applications currently available, almost a quarter are dedicated to weight-tracking (for example BMI, CalorieCheck, iScale, Fit 1.01, Fatwatch, Weightcharter). Micro-tracking of weight and caloric input could have negative effects for at-risk groups.