• DocumentCode
    3572065
  • Title

    Need for development of dietary assessment device for free living environment-a survey

  • Author

    Karthick, K. ; Ramasamy, Sudha ; Ramanathan, Prabhu

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., VIT Univ., Vellore, India
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    Currently more than 1 billion adults are overweight -and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Article from World Health Organisation mentioned that obese is the major cause for Diabetics, cardio vascular problem and cancer. Change in food habits and lack of physical activities are the main reason for obese. Daily food choices affect our short term and long term health. By monitoring food intake we can assess the person food habit, in this paper we discussed and analyse various method involving energy intake and energy expenditure and need for accurate long term dietary assessment technique for free living individuals.
  • Keywords
    cancer; cardiovascular system; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; World Health Organisation; cancer; cardiovascular problem; diabetic problem; dietary assessment device; food intake monitoring; free living environment; obese; Atmospheric measurements; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mechanical variables measurement; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Particle measurements; Visualization; Body worn sensor; Dietray Assessment; Doubly Label Water Method (DLWM); Human Tracking Sensor; Obesity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-6084-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICECCT.2015.7226135
  • Filename
    7226135