TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the effect of food intake and physical activity on body weight
AU - Prioleau, Temiloluwa
AU - Heng, Yuqiang
AU - Veeraraghavan, Ashok
AU - Sabharwal, Ashutosh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/4/11
Y1 - 2017/4/11
N2 - Body weight is an important measurement parameter towards management of obesity, diabetes and overall health. Previous research and society at large has primarily focused on long-term fluctuation in body weight to describe and quantify weight gain or loss. Meanwhile, little emphasis has been placed on the potential benefit of monitoring short-term body weight changes. Activities of daily living including food intake, excretion, and physical activities have a direct and measurable impact on short-term body weight in a day. Therefore, understanding the effect of these activities can provide insight towards development of a wearable system capable of detecting and quantifying daily intake, excretion and physical activities. In this study, body weight, intake, and physical activities were monitored intermittently for 7-8 hours on two separate days (sedentary and high activity). Results show that dietary intake always resulted in a positive change in body weight (mean error between measured body weight and amount of intake was ±0.24 feg). Meanwhile, high intensity physical activities (i.e. cardio) and excretion resulted in a negative change in body weight.
AB - Body weight is an important measurement parameter towards management of obesity, diabetes and overall health. Previous research and society at large has primarily focused on long-term fluctuation in body weight to describe and quantify weight gain or loss. Meanwhile, little emphasis has been placed on the potential benefit of monitoring short-term body weight changes. Activities of daily living including food intake, excretion, and physical activities have a direct and measurable impact on short-term body weight in a day. Therefore, understanding the effect of these activities can provide insight towards development of a wearable system capable of detecting and quantifying daily intake, excretion and physical activities. In this study, body weight, intake, and physical activities were monitored intermittently for 7-8 hours on two separate days (sedentary and high activity). Results show that dietary intake always resulted in a positive change in body weight (mean error between measured body weight and amount of intake was ±0.24 feg). Meanwhile, high intensity physical activities (i.e. cardio) and excretion resulted in a negative change in body weight.
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U2 - 10.1109/BHI.2017.7897231
DO - 10.1109/BHI.2017.7897231
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85018401839
T3 - 2017 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2017
SP - 165
EP - 168
BT - 2017 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2017
Y2 - 16 February 2017 through 19 February 2017
ER -