A Framework for Personalized Diet and Exercise Guideline Recommendation - Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence - page 273

A Framework for Personalized Diet
and Exercise Guideline Recommendation

Yu-Feng Lin 1 , Cheng-Hao Chu 1 , Bo-Hau Lin 1 , Yi-Ching Yang 2 , Vincent S. Tseng 1,* ,
Miin-Luen Day 3 , Shyh-Chyi Wang 3 , and Kuen-Rong Lo 3

1 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
2 Department of Family Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital,
Tainan, Taiwan
3 Telecommunication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
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Abstract. Due to the popularity of information sources on medical educational
sites, people are becoming to pay more attention on individual health care and
disease prevention. According to the report of regular comprehensive physical
examination or daily self-measurement using medical devices, now people can
clearly understand the vital signs and physiological changes in order to detect
the disease and treatment. Although a number of health management systems
provided from medical institutions have been developed for recording the daily
health measurements, users still have to take the record to medical institutions
and ask for self-care guidelines from health care providers. This paper thus
proposes a novel framework of virtual assistant system for personal health man-
agement, which can analyze the report of regular comprehensive physical
examination to calculate the health risk and provide personalized health care
services for users in terms of diet and exercise guideline recommendation.

Keywords: Personalized healthcare services, diet and exercise guideline rec-
ommendation, comprehensive physical examination, virtual assistant system.

1 Introduction

Due to the busy and high pressure modern life, many people cannot keep the healthy
living style and tend to be in lack of exercise with eating disorders. Consequently, the
populations of chronic illness ( e.g., hypertension, diabetes and metabolic syndrome )
are getting more and young [1]. If people can maintain a healthy lifestyle (e.g.,
through diet and exercise), as well as control their glucose, blood lipids, blood pres-
sure and waist circumference, chronic illness can be effectively prevented. Hence,
self-health management is very important in preventing chronic illness [1, 2, 3, 9].
With vigorous development of the Internet, public knowledge of self-health manage-
ment and individual health care have been put on the websites, and people can clearly
understand that how to manage self-health. However, even though a number of health
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