Billed as the ‘easiest food diary’ you’ll ever keep, Tweet What You Eat aims to make it simple. It is notoriously difficult for patients to remember to take their tablets. Having been a participant in a clinical trial before I realise this. It must be even harder if you have to keep track of what you eat without a dedicated nurse there to do it for you. Sunshine is the best disinfectant and openness is essential for transparency. From a trial diary of what you have been doing, it is not possible to see if entries have been made days after when patients may have ‘forgotten’ or indeed genuinely forgotten what they have eaten. It is not possible to edit what has already been posted on Twitter unless you are some kind of super hacker. Once information is there, it is there, and in the public domain. Although looking at what people are eating at the moment, I don’t feel that encouraged…
- Dom
