As is often the case when starting a new yearone of the main goals of humans is lose weight o improve our health by eating better; many try and succeed in achieving their goals, but others stay on the path.

Thus, to help us meet the goal to eat healthierhas developed a new application that guides people to reach their recommended eating goals five servings of fruit and vegetables a day.

This is a free application named SMART-5-A-DAYwhich guides users if they are eating the correct portions, as well as the correct foods, to comply with the guidelines recommended by the health authorities from great Britain.

The development of this tool is based on the investigation of Bournemouth Universitywho found that while most people are familiar with the message of eating five fruits and vegetables a day, very few know how many or what portions to stick to.

Katherine Appletona psychology professor at the institute, who led the study and development of the new app, said many people don’t know what counts for the purpose, don’t know portion sizes, and many don’t realize it. they need to eat five different things.

For this reason, app SMART-5-A-DAY created specifically to help people understand portion sizes and see how the amount of fruit and vegetables they eat contributes to their daily goals.

How to use the SMART-5-A-DAY app?

Researchers explain how the application works SMART-5-A-DAYwhere the user has to select the fruit or vegetable they just ate then they will be asked to enter the amount they ate.

Then application it will tell them if the amount is a full part or a part and how much more is needed to make it a full part. You also keep a total of your progress towards your “five day” goal.

Katherine Appleton emphasize it SMART-5-A-DAY, As well as tracking daily fruit and vegetable intake, it also teaches people about portion sizes, so they get to the point where they know what they need to eat on their own.

“We think this will be an effective method, a tool to improve people’s diets in the long term, not just for the short period of time they use the app,” the professor said.

The newly released version incorporates several updates after prototype testing, so it is now expected to cause further changes in eating behavior among its users.

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SMART 5-A-DAY Available in Google Play Store for cell phones Androids since December 29.