The biggest task when it comes to dieting is not restricting yourself from eating your favourite food but rather continuing it without cheating. It is so difficult to keep track of what you ate and sometime for the sake of it you just let one slip. You may want to think twice now.
The Tufts University School of Engineering team has now developed tiny tooth- mounted sensors which will provide you with real time information about everything that you eat and drink. This technology will prove to be helpful in healthcare and clinical studies.
This chip is a flexible, 2 mm sensors that communicate wirelessly with any mobile device. It will send real time information and details about a person’s intake of sugar, salt and alcohol. With further developments in technology and science, this can be modified to identify and assess other chemicals too. Advanced Materials also published a paper that spoke about future upgrades of the tech that would data of a wide range of nutrients and chemicals.
The sensors are created and designed to overcome issues of regular diet monitoring devices. Some devices involve bulky wiring or a chunky mouth guard and they deteriorate rapidly. They are not devices that are a good investment. These new sensors are versatile and it can read and transmit information on it’s environment and it does not matter what surface it is attached to. You can put it on your tooth, on your skin or on any other surface.
This kind of technology is the future of health care. It will help to exponentially curb various health disease included obesity, heart problems and issues of cholesterol and diabetes. For the gym freaks who want to religiously maintain a diet, it just got much much easier. You can very easily track the contents of what you eat and regulate it accordingly. A small procedure to install it and you are good to go!