Health protection with ... phone

The Japanese have found a new solution to the ' devastating ' level of a food pattern for diet and health: taking ' subjects ' with mobile phones and sending them to an expert to distribute analysis and feedback.

This is a trial service of the Osaka Public Health Insurance Office aimed at 100 people with heart disease and intends to apply it to diabetic and obese patients later.

Nutritionists will review pictures of meals for weeks. After that, they will send the assessment results to the patient. In addition, participants in this program can also visit a website to get diet information and upload photos of meals.

According to nutrition experts, taking mobile meals is quicker and more effective than the traditional way of listing because patients may neglect or underestimate some diets. " Now with mobile phones everywhere, people can easily improve their diet, " said Osaka official Onishi.

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