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You can go ahead and delete that calorie counting

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...because soon a tooth mounted nutrition tracker could be monitoring what you

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...according to the new york post a device being developed by scientists

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at tufts university is able to track the intake of glucose salt and alcohol

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and researchers on the project believe that further iterations of the device will be able to track a

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much wider range of quote nutrients chemicals and physiological

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...the two square millimeter nutrition trackers bio responsive

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absorbs up it of what goes into your mouth before transmitting that data so what

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are the applications of a device like this according to one of the studies co-authors if

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you are somebody with an eating disorder it could be a checkpoint that

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monitors your diet a little more closely or it could be an early detection for disease

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or it could just make you feel a little more guilty about that second cooking.