Mobile Food Tracking Apps: Do They Provoke Disordered Eating Behavior? Results of a Longitudinal Study.

Background: Some studies connect the popularity of food-tracking apps to an increase in restrictive eating and other disordered eating behaviors and find those apps harmful for psychological well-being, but there is a lack of empirical studies, especially of Russian samples.

Objective: To examine the connection between disordered eating symptoms, psychological well-being, and the use of a mobile food-tracking application.

Design: The participants were 26 women aged 18-30 ( = 21.