Abstract
Exercise habits, smoking cessation, and healthy eating habits are very important for preventing lifestyle-related diseases including type 2 diabetes. However, it is difficult to change one’s lifestyle. Self-management plays an important role in treating type 2 diabetes, one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. Self-monitoring and other behavioral techniques are applied in diabetes treatment. Daily diet is usually monitored with a food diary in paper-and-pencil format although paper-and-pencil food diary has shortcomings such as burden of recording food items manually and difficulty in calorie calculation. In addition, it is not possible to know when meal was recorded, which is related to outcome of self-monitoring. There are some studies on food diaries with portable digital assistance (PDA), which may overcome these shortcomings. In the present article, we will overview PDA-based food diary and its possible application for self-care system for type 2 diabetes.
