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Good nutrition is an essential component of life. Undernutrition is the root cause of death of over 3.5 million children under the age of five in India. To address this issue of malnutrition, though overarching national policy is desirable, it may not be effective if the root cause of malnutrition varies across regions of the country. In this context, the attempt made in this paper is two-fold. First,...
Extant literature has largely not examined how users critically engage with their physical activity monitors, as objective data sense-making is often deemed superior to users’ subjective realities. Our research, however, examines how middle-school youth encounter the representation of their data, as it is converted and actionable in an online game. This ethnographic study illustrates how youth negotiate...
The aim of this position paper is to examine the case for supporting behaviour change in pre-diabetic obese people in order to improve their health. The paper sets out the background and motivation for supporting behaviour change before outlining the relevant literature in this health and wellbeing area. The paper then explores the feasibility of SmartLife — a patient-driven application involving...
This paper presents the results of the first phase in a multi-phase study developing an educational fitness application on mobile devices to help combat the growing levels of obesity among youth age 11 to 17. This first phase studies demographic differences across age and gender with regards to physical activities, computer games and mobile technology usage in order to develop an adaptive mobile fitness...
Obesity is a costly condition that can reduce quality of life and increase the risk for many serious chronic diseases and premature death. The rising rates, high prevalence, and adverse consequences of obesity call for the development and testing of new and innovative approaches that address weight loss barriers and bring help to those most affected by obesity. In this article, we examine the effectiveness...
Obesity is a common issue nowadays. The numbers of obese people are increasing every year. There are evidences that childhood obesity persists into adulthood. Predicting obesity at an early age is both useful and important because preventive measures and proper interventions can be applied if the children indicated a high risk of obesity. However, the prediction of childhood obesity is a difficult...
Internationally, at the population level, a review of overweight/obesity prevalence trends reveals consistent increase of the condition in industrialized nations, but considerable variability internationally in the magnitude of the change. Unlike other approaches to reduce obesity that rely in expert design of someone's strategy, the decision support model (DSM) proposed by this research goes beyond...
An eLearning model in prevention of nutrition-related diseases (NRD) was developed for the first time in Thailand utilizing innovative information and communication technology to deliver nutrition and health education to prevent the NRD diseases including obesity, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), diabetes and hypertension for senior working adults. It was developed following experts' opinions and then...
This technical paper summarizes the methodology used to design an interactive food and exercise reporting program, called CFC GetFit. The team designed the site for the Chilidren's Fiteness Clinic (CFC) in Charlottesville, VA, and the site includes health education, patient progress, and the ability to receive short message service (SMS) text messages from users. It is hypothesized that children who...
This paper examines the obesity and overweight problem in our society. This problem has reached epidemic proportions globally and is nowadays under study by most of developed countries. All solutions proposed are based on educating people to make them more conscious about the importance of a good nutrition plan. However, passive learning techniques performed and used until now have not been useful...
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