Nutritional Monitoring and Advising Information System for Healthcare Support
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Several economical, social and cultural factors that took place in the last decades in developed countries have strongly influenced human diseases profiles. Among those factors, globalization and urban prevalent lifestyles are worth to mention. One of the reflexes turning out from those changes is related to nutritional (mis)behaviors (Lopes et al., 2006). Although other reflexes are also subject of research (e.g. smoking, pollution, etc.), nutrition is referred as one of the most important factors. The extent of many harmful reflexes (e.g. morbidity and mortality) caused by incorrect nutritional behaviors on health, have been estimated in several studies. World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 80% of cardiovascular disease cases, 90% of diabetes mellitus type 2 and 33% of all types of cancer could have been prevented by adopting healthier lifestyles, which includes correct nutriAbstrAct
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