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A Systematic Review of Nutrition Recommendation Systems: With Focus on Technical Aspects

Background: Nutrition informatics has become a novel approach for registered dietitians to practice in this field and make a profit for health care. Recommendation systems considered as an effective technology into aid users to adjust their eating behavior and achieve the goal of healthier food and diet. The purpose of this study is to review nutrition recommendation systems (NRS) and their cha...

Nutrition and neurodevelopment in children: focus on NUTRIMENTHE project.

There is growing evidence that early nutrition affects later cognitive performance. The idea that the diet of mothers, infants, and children could affect later mental performance has major implications for public health practice and policy development and for our understanding of human biology as well as for food product development, economic progress, and future wealth creation. To date, howev...

ATVB In Focus Nutrition and Atherosclerosis

Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) is the energy expenditure of all physical activities other than volitional sporting-like exercise. NEAT includes all the activities that render us vibrant, unique, and independent beings such as working, playing, and dancing. Because people of the same weight have markedly variable activity levels, it is not surprising that NEAT varies substantially be...

Trends in nutrition transition: Pakistan in focus.

The world ‘is experiencing an accelerated epidemic of diet-related non-communicable diseases. Unbalanced and excessive food and nutrient intakes, often closely associated with other changes in lifestyle that include less physical activity, stress, tobacco smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, underlie a range of these diseases. These include coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke,...