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The socioeconomic transformations in the last decades and its consequent changes to societies lifestyle have increased the incidence of chronic diseases. Genomic medicine has suggested that the exposure to risk factors since conception may influence gene expression and consequently induce the development of chronic diseases in adulthood . Scientific papers bringing up these discoveries indicate that...
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...
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 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...
Obesity has now become a national health problem for many countries throughout the world. It is thought to be the root of many other medical conditions such as high blood pressure, heart diseases and diabetes. Thailand is one of the countries affected by this so-called `obesity epidemic', having seen a dramatic increase in obesity in the past decade. According to the results published earlier this...
This paper was focused on obesity solutions. The obesity solutions were primarily in three areas: devices, materials, and information management. Biomedical engineering community developed devices for minimally invasive surgery for laproscopy to implantation and endoscopy with suturing device for gastric treatment and related applications. Signalling devices, implantable and wearable devices for monitoring...
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