66 results about "Lifestyle habits" patented technology

Methods and systems for providing a lifestyle companion system are provided. The lifestyle companion system can provide a platform to conduct a user interview. Based on the user interview responses, the system can suggest activities, references, and / or plug-in modules. During performance of activities, the system can provide audio and / or visual cues related to the activities and collect data indicative of the user's performance. Based on the collected data, the system can dynamically adapt the user's goals and / or activities the user is performing or will perform. In some embodiments of the present invention, the lifestyle companion system of the present invention can be applied to fitness, nutrition, and / or medical modules. The system also can be used to facilitate synchronous group activities.

A computerized system for scheduling at least one daily activity of a user. One or more sensors are attached to the body of the user which monitor one or more physiological parameters of the body Physiological data is produced representative of the one or more physiological parameters during a time period. A processing unit attached to memory, is programmed for the scheduling of activities based on the physiological data and on previously stored values. The scheduled activities preferably include eating of a meal, exercise or rest of the user. Physiological parameters include skin temperature and / or heart rate. When the scheduled daily activity is eating of a meal, the processing unit is preferably programmed to recommend to the user to eat the meal during a portion of the time period when the skin temperature is rising or when the heart rate is falling.

A remote interactive method, system and computer program product is provided for self-managing a person's regular lifestyle needs through controlled notification and feedback. The invention provides a simple, cost effective and flexible self-management and compliance scheme that does not require third party intervention or treatment options typical with immediate-response or alert-based systems. The invention also provides for long term management and analysis for the benefit of the individual. In implementing the invention in a healthcare environment, the individual will gain a better understanding of managing their lifestyle and behaviour. A related business model is also disclosed.

An algorithm and method to provide personal recommendations for nutrition based on preferences, habits, medical and activity profiles for users, and constraints. The algorithm can also be fed and takes into account real-time feedback from the user. The method allows creating a personal nutritional schedule based on a set of constraints, which are solved using an optimization algorithm to find the diet best fitting each user. The method also includes analyzing a single user by applying various statistical techniques, enabling the algorithm to infer the user's preferences and updating of the constraints, analyzing and clustering of the general user population based on statistical principles, giving the algorithm insightful information and allowing improved performance by means of “machine-learning,” and creating a list of recommended food items / recipes to help users live a balanced, healthier lifestyle.

A program for regulating a health condition. The program includes one or more assessments including a genetic test, biomarker test, and lifestyle assessment; a personalized intervention; and a follow up test for monitoring a subject's health condition.

Methods and systems for providing a lifestyle companion system are provided. The lifestyle companion system can provide a platform to conduct a user interview. Based on the user interview responses, the system can suggest activities, references, and / or plug-in modules. During performance of activities, the system can provide audio and / or visual cues related to the activities and collect data indicative of the user's performance. Based on the collected data, the system can dynamically adapt the user's goals and / or activities the user is performing or will perform. In some embodiments of the present invention, the lifestyle companion system of the present invention can be applied to fitness, nutrition, and / or medical modules. The system also can be used to facilitate synchronous group activities.

A method, system, and device for providing nutritional detailed dietary (menu planning), exercise, and life coaching guidance and nutritional supplements to maximize Wellness (health and fitness) to a person based on a portion of the person's genetic SNP profile, taking account of at least about 30 genes and variations therein. The person provides a tissue sample to a genetic analysis laboratory, which issues its SNP report. That report, together with the person's responses to a personal habits questionnaire, is analyzed by a nutritionist and also an exercise therapist and a monthly dietary supplementation plan and recommended lifestyle changes are provided to the person. A supplements box is provided to the person with daily and intra-daily doses of prescriptions and supplements, the box containing at least 4 weeks' worth of supplements. The box is filled and refilled monthly to the specifications of the nutritionist, exercise therapist, and lifestyle coach to assist the person in achieving optimum health and vitality, i.e., wellness.

A software program that allows an individual with a personal computer to develop and implement plans of action for achieving a preferred lifestyle that appears feasible based on the individual's current and probable future financial circumstances.

In an effort to reduce employer health insurance related costs, a state-governed fully-insured health insurance policy is provided for a group of employees. At least one benefit under the health insurance policy is conditional on the employee voluntarily participating in a wellness program. The wellness program could include wellness categories such as a tobacco free category, normal blood pressure category, regular exercise category and even a non-overweight category. In addition, the wellness program could condition coverage, or subsidize deductibles for, certain illnesses on employee submission to screening tests on a prescribed basis for the identified illness, such as cancer screening for early detection of cancer. The voluntary wellness program can also include a variety of other aspects including wellness education, disease inoculation, and injury prevention. The invention provides an incentive for employees to make healthier lifestyle choices.

A health condition determining device accumulates data measured or input by an evaluation subject for each index of a plurality of items including a lifestyle index, which is an index related to body activity or lifestyle habit, and a biomarker, which is an index related to physiological state of the body. The health condition determining device then selects one or a plurality of biomarkers that lowers the evaluation of the health condition of the evaluation subject as a problematic index, extracts one or a plurality of lifestyle indices having the highest correlation with the problematic index as an improvable factor by comparing accumulated past data of the lifestyle index and the biomarker, and displays the improvable factor along with the evaluation of the health condition of the evaluation subject.

A system and method for assisting with the maintenance of healthy lifestyle habits by generating tailored strategy messages within an expert system and then pushing those messages to the corresponding individual users of the cellular phones or other portable devices. The system and method allows diet and exercise plans to be tailored to individual users based on their preferences and provides consistent and appropriate strategy messages designed to encourage and motivate users toward successfully maintaining healthy lifestyle habits. Users complete initial assessments which detail individual food and physical activity preferences. The system uses the assessments to generate individualized messages that are pushed to user devices through a system incorporating cellular technologies. Tailored messages are pushed from the computer based expert system to user devices at predetermined times each day.

This application relates to methods and tests that allow for the establishment of personalized weight-loss programs for a subject based upon the subject's metabolic genotype in key metabolic genes. Kits and methods are disclosed for determining a subject's metabolic genotype, which may be used to select an appropriate therapeutic / dietary regimen or lifestyle recommendation based upon the likelihood of a subject's responsiveness to certain diets and activity levels. Such a personalized weight-loss program will have obvious benefits (e.g., yield better results in terms of weight loss and weight maintenance) over traditional weight-loss programs that do not take into account genetic information.

A method and a system for teaching and guiding an individual and changing the lifestyle and in building up a health or healthier behaviour includes the step of making a basic assessment of the individual and of defining at least one program to which the individual should attend on the basis of this assessment. The program includes at least teaching, guiding and actively involving the individual and individually gathering personal objective information represented by at least one health indicator. The individual is taught in accordance with a specific learning program in view of understanding a relationship between the objective information and a phenomenon or symptom caused by pathology or functional deficiency. The individual is further taught and guided to understand the effect of specific behaviour and lifestyle on the pathology or functional deficiency. Finally, actions are identified to be taken for changing the lifestyle and for building up a healthier behaviour in view of reducing health problems or health risks.

A state of health assessment device accumulates from a person being evaluated measurements or data inputs regarding each of multiple indicator items, including lifestyle indicators which are indicators pertaining to physical activity or lifestyle habits, and biological indicators which are indicators pertaining to the physiological state of the body. Next, the state of heath assessment device selects as an indicator or indicators of interest one or multiple biological indicators which are lowering the evaluation of the state of health of the person being evaluated and, by comparing past data for the accumulated lifestyle indicators and biological indicators, extracts as factors capable of improvement one or multiple lifestyle indicators which have the highest correlation with the indicator(s) of interest, and displays an evaluation of the state of health of the person being evaluated and the factors capable of improvement.

This application relates to methods and tests that allow for the establishment of personalized weight-loss programs for a subject based upon the subject's metabolic genotype in key metabolic genes. Kits and methods are disclosed for determining a subject's metabolic genotype, which may be used to select an appropriate therapeutic / dietary regimen or lifestyle recommendation based upon the likelihood of a subject's responsiveness to certain diets and activity levels. Such a personalized weight-loss program will have obvious benefits (e.g., yield better results in terms of weight loss and weight maintenance) over traditional weight-loss programs that do not take into account genetic information.

A method is provided for utilizing a personal monitoring device or other personal logging device, to assist an individual in a lifestyle control program. The method includes storing lifestyle data from a statistically large group of persons in a database, collecting, in a personal logging device, corresponding personal lifestyle data; feeding the data from the personal logging device to the database; performing a statistical analysis of the collected lifestyle data, and producing an output and providing feedback to the user based on correlations.

Provided is a lifestyle collecting apparatus that collects information for determining a lifestyle of a user, and includes: an object information detecting unit configured to detect object information representing an object around the user; a relevance degree calculating unit configured to calculate a relevance degree of the user to the object, using the object information; an appearance information extracting unit configured to extract appearance information from the object information, and add the relevance degree to the extracted appearance information, the appearance information representing an appearance of the object; and a lifestyle database which stores the appearance information to which the relevance degree has been added, as the information for determining the lifestyle of the user.

The present invention relates to methods of assessing disease susceptibility associated with dietary and lifestyle risk factors. The invention provides for analysis of alleles at loci of genes associated with lifestyle risk factors, and the disease susceptibility profile of an individual is determined by reference to datasets which further match the risk factor with lifestyle recommendations in order to produce a personalized lifestyle advice plan.

A method for combining real-time behavior data with previously-modeled data to prioritize media content is provided. The method includes: receiving at least one of a unique customer identification code data and a third party advertisement provider identification code data associated with a user from a content webpage with which the user is interacting; determining if the unique customer identification code or the third party advertisement provider identification code is known by a third party advertisement provider; determining if the content webpage exists with at least one associated key lifestyle indicator data that includes information indicative of the at least one characteristic of the user; obtaining a key lifestyle indicator data list associated with the content webpage; updating the key lifestyle indicator list with the key lifestyle indicators of the content webpage; and presenting updated media content on the content webpage based on the updated key lifestyle indicator list.

A process for evaluating a persons individualized nutritional supplementation needs based on preselected criteria. The process comprises the steps of having a prospective patient obtain a confidential history form and having the prospective patient complete the confidential history form which includes preselected medical information, family history, and preselected lifestyle criteria. This is followed by a step of having the patient authorize review the information that was provided in the previous step by the patient by a preselected assigned doctor and a step of having the patient consent to being treated by the preselected assigned doctor. Ordering laboratory testing of the patient by the preselected assigned doctor is a step in the process which includes providing the patient with a requisition slip for laboratory testing along with directions to a preselected laboratory. This is followed by a step of having at least one of such patient's blood and urine tested at the preselected laboratory and a step of reviewing and evaluating results by the assigned doctor of the tests and a step of providing the patient with a health assessment report by the assigned doctor.

Provided is a mobile health and wellness motivational system in which users specify times and / or locations where they know they will need help with lifestyle challenges. Using the smartphone's clock and geo-fencing technologies, a motivational message arrives at the specified time and / or location. Highly personalized, this system provides motivation in the form of text, photo, video, music or launched text or call; using inspiration, deterrent, tips or distraction at the specified time and / or location that the motivation is needed.

The present invention related to the area of lifestyle devices, particularly to pedometers used for exercise tracking. This invention aims at accurate recording of steps, speeds, distances, type of motion (walk and run) and calories expenditure, independently of the personal characteristics (age, gender, weight and height). The invention uses sub-band decomposition filters that produce non-distorted sine wave regardless of personal traits and the type of walking or running. Low-complexity zero-crossing step detection is subsequently applied, and the step length and energy expenditure information is then extracted. The method for goals tracking is included for independent types of goals: steps, energy, distance and duration.

An algorithm and method to provide personal recommendations for nutrition based on preferences, habits, medical and activity profiles for users, and constraints. The algorithm can also be fed and takes into account real-time feedback from the user. The method allows creating a personal nutritional schedule based on a set of constraints, which are solved using an optimization algorithm to find the diet best fitting each user. The method also includes analyzing a single user by applying various statistical techniques, enabling the algorithm to infer the user's preferences and updating of the constraints, analyzing and clustering of the general user population based on statistical principles, giving the algorithm insightful information and allowing improved performance by means of “machine-learning,” and creating a list of recommended food items / recipes to help users live a balanced, healthier lifestyle.

A software and hardware system is described that enables effective lifestyle management by providing a dynamic assessment of a user's physical and behavioral metrics via a high feedback ratio interface.

A platform and application provide for micro-coaching on healthy eating and lifestyle. Clients log meals using a mobile application by taking a picture of the meal and / or optionally describing the meal using text. Clients may also log workouts, exercise, and activity details. The client's coach can view the logs in the client's activity log and add a comment. The coach's comment on a logged meal may be displayed in association with the meal in the client's activity log. Optionally, the client can reply to the coach's comment, and the reply is displayed in the same meal message thread. Accordingly, the platform and application enable the client to conveniently log meals, exercise, and activity data and obtain feedback from a coach on a meal or exercise log.

A system and method are disclosed of exemplary embodiments for activating, navigating and controlling wellness protocols generated by expert systems algorithmic analysis of user qualitative and quantitative input data parameters in nine lifestyle areas: food, drink, movement, mind, wear, space, rest, self-care and social collaboration using a graphical systems interface and a user input device (mechanical pointing or touch) for displaying and navigating lifestyle / wellness protocols and purchasing related products and services and conducting social collaboration. The system operates on smart phones, tablet computers and desktop computers where lifestyle / wellness protocols are generated based on expert systems algorithmic analysis of qualitative and quantitative input data parameters (lifestyle data and bio-medical data). And, a method is disclosed for receiving qualitative and quantitative input including, but not limited to, wellness and health history questionnaires and bio-medical data and protocols and accessing and integrating wellness data and protocol content and social interactions within the system.

Systems and methods for determining if a user's experience is in common with the experience of a larger number of individuals. A user's data relating to the user's lifestyle and wellness is received at a database. Candidate data, again relating to a candidate's lifestyle and wellness, is then selected from the database based on a comparison profile. The selected candidate data is analyzed in real time in conjunction with the user data. The results are then sent to the user on his or her data computing device or to someone working with the user on his of her health, wellness and lifestyle.

Techniques are disclosed to calculate a “life script.” The life script may include various behaviors and / or monetary allocations required for a user to meet one or more user-defined objectives. These objectives may indicate various lifestyle habits desired by the user such as where to live, a maximum commuting time to work, how often to travel, etc. Because each of these objectives requires the user to allocate his funds in a certain way and to live in accordance with a particular set of restraints, user information may be collected and aggregated from several sources to generate a user profile indicating the user's financial information, demographics, psychographics, and lifestyle information. The user profile may then be analyzed to calculate a constraint framework that guides the generation of a life script to allow the user to achieve the desired objectives.