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The increase of obesity and overweight is alarming, and has major human and financial detrimental consequences. The problem of obesity and overweight is caused mainly by an increase in physical inactivity, for which one of the main reasons is the long hours spent every day in front of the TV. The system proposed in this paper targets individuals who are overweight or subjects for whom doctors have...
Recent advances in mobile devices have made profound changes in people's daily lives. In particular, the impact of easy access of information by the smartphone has been tremendous. However, the impact of mobile devices on healthcare has been limited. Diagnosis and treatment of diseases are still initiated by occurrences of symptoms, and technologies and devices that emphasize on disease prevention...
Introduction: Despite all the efforts to promote physical activity, there is a decline of its level from childhood to adolescence. To create attractive physical activity programs it is important to consider a new generation of video games: the active video games. The aim study protocol is to describe an experimental design trial protocol to verify if the use of active video games can increase physical...
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 paper was focused on the human energy expenditure and metabolism. Since EE ends up as heat, direct or indirect physiological calorimetry was used to measure heat lost. For indirect calorimetry, metabolic carts, portable calorimeters and whole-room indirect calorimeters were used. Physical activity and heart rate monitoring were conducted.
To improve our understanding of the role(s) that genes and environmental factors play in a complex disease, we need statistical approaches that model multiple factors simultaneously in a hierarchical manner that aims to reflect the underlying biological system(s). We present an approach that models genes as latent constructs, defined by multiple variants (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) within...
Interest in studying human posture, movement, and physical activity is growing due in part to the increasing prevalence of obesity. Accelerometers are commonly used in motion analysis systems to enable researchers to conduct studies outside of the traditional laboratory environment; however the available systems tend to be bulky and unsuitable for long-term studies. Therefore, a need exists for a...
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