Life Sciences
New life sciences study results from University of Udine described
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 14th, 2008
Fresh data on life sciences are presented in the report 'MOPET: a context-aware and user-adaptive wearable system for fitness training.' "Cardiovascular disease, obesity, and lack of physical fitness are increasingly common and negatively affect people's health, requiring medical assistance and decreasing people's wellness and productivity. In the last years, researchers as well as companies have been increasingly investigating wearable devices for fitness applications with the aim of improving user's health, in terms of cardiovascular benefits, loss of weight or muscle strength," researchers in Udine, Italy report.
"Dedicated GPS devices, accelerometers, step counters...
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