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Obesity is one of the most serious and dangerous nutrition disorder around the world. Usually, people develop patterns of unhealthy eating that lead to increased body weight and accumulation of fat in the body. There are many reasons for that as suggested by researchers; one of the reasons is the imbalance between the energy intake from food and energy consumed in the body, which can possibly lead...
Childhood obesity has become a major problem around the world. In many cases children develop unhealthy eating patterns, resulting in excess energy intake, because they eat alone without their parents or teachers advice (e.g. at school). In this paper we present a mobile health architecture intended to prevent childhood obesity by promoting good health behaviors with a set of mHealth applications...
Social media is an interesting, relatively new topic in health and self-management, which is generating enormous amounts of data, but little is yet known about its effect on the health of participants. The goal of this study is to determine online interaction behaviours that predict weight loss performance. The problem is modelled as a binomial classification task for predicting whether a patient...
Today, more and more "things" have an IP identity and thus are able to communicate with each other though the Internet. According to the definition of WIKIPEDIA [1], The IP identity of things (or Internet of Things), refers to uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representation in an internet-like structure. Such "things" include home appliances (e.g. refrigerator, dishwasher,...
This paper outlines my doctoral research to date as well as describing areas for future research. The aim of my PhD is to explore the potential role that information and communication technologies (ICT) may have in motivating behaviour change relating to lifestyle behaviours. In particular the focus of my research are behaviours associated with obesity amongst those considered to be at high risk (families...
Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases have gradually become one of the world's top ten fatal causes of death for the past few years. As far as the diet is concerned, it is easy to find out how to eat healthily and which food is good for people on the Internet. The diet behavior is highly personalized and also associated with the culture and religion. In this paper, the property of fuzzy ontology is...
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...
Obesity is according to WHO one of the greatest health challenges of our time. The aim of the pilot project was to investigate the weight loss efficacy and the cost of individual dietetic internet-based consultations in a Danish medical centre in combination with an internet community. A total of 46 obese patients in general practice were offered participation in a cohort study during May 15th to...
The number of web based health communities has increased during the latest years, and so has also the number of users. Among these, we find the health communities for people who suffer from lifestyle problems. These communities aim at helping people change their habits, and thereby preventing them from getting severe illnesses later. The communities are used for conversations about everyday struggles...
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