Tracking physical activity can help people set goals and learn new behaviors, but it shouldn't be a reason to change healthy eating patterns. Michaelides added that no nutrition app should tell people to consume extra calories because they've exercised. ' A lot of the calories in food are buried inside their meal.'

' Most people, without the assistance of a food database, would not be equipped to know the big picture,' Michaelides said. Unless someone has a clinical diagnosis and needs to track their micronutrients, he said, it's more important to form healthy, lifelong habits. 'I t's really about changing your behavior.' ' Weight loss is a lot more than just writing things down,' said Andreas Michaelides, Noom's chief psychology officer.

The app provides users with 'coaches' who motivate them to meet their nutrition goals. Noom is different from the other apps in its focus on wellness as opposed to traditional dieting. The Noom app doesn't show users their levels of micronutrients (like calcium, iron, and vitamin C) or macronutrients (carbs, protein, and fat), but its overall calorie estimates are pretty spot-on.

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