Still, monitoring food intake has been shown to be effective for some people. An app won’t be everything you need to reach your goals. That said, a more recent review looking at randomized controlled trials, which was published in June 2020 in Frontiers in Endocrinology, concluded that apps may indeed be a tool for weight loss - but, the authors clarify, they are just one tool. What many apps don't do, another study, published in July 2019 in JMIR mHealth uHealth concluded, is provide users with behavioral change techniques, which is necessary to help people keep weight off in the long term. An article published in November 2015 in Obesity outlining research on young adults came to a similar conclusion. For instance, a study published in November 2014 in Annals of Internal Medicine concluded that while apps may be useful for a certain type of vigilant dieter, the average overweight patient will probably not lose weight on them. Of course, there are downsides to weight loss apps, too.

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