Abstract: A health and wellbeing system is disclosed which has particular application to monitoring dietary intake. The system includes a user mobile telephone (15) which a user uses to transmit information relating to food products to be consumed by a user or other health related issues to a database (12) and processor (14) at a remote location. The database (12) maintains data relating to the user, and which is personal to the user, as well as general data which relates to dietary content of food products and other health and wellbeing parameters. Upon transmission of information from the user mobile telephone (15) by SMS message to the database (12), the processing section (14) determines an appropriate response based on the specific user data stored in the database section (12a) and/or general information stored in the database section (12b), and transmits a message back to the user by way of SMS message to the telephone (15).