Personalized Nutrition Guidance for Women
Keywords:
women's health, personalized nutrition, tailored meals, menstruation, custom, dietary mealAbstract
The scarcity of applications pertaining to women's nutritional health highlights the dearth of digital tools created with women's unique health needs in mind. Applications for health and wellness are growing in popularity, but not many of them address the nutritional needs, general well-being, or reproductive health of women. This disparity is particularly notable in light of the range of physiological changes that women experience during their lives, including menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. It is unclear how common smartphone apps are for encouraging lifestyle changes in this demographic, despite the growing interest in mobile health interventions. Rapid technological advancements have made it easier to employ cell phones for study and practice in health promotion. Large smartphone platforms offer a wide variety of nutrition and food-related programs (apps), but very few of these have been tested in research to determine how effectively they improve health. In order to enable women to take control of their health and promote a holistic approach to wellbeing, the abstract highlights how women's nutritional health apps require more attention and development.
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