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May 26, 2007

Camera Phones Offer Diet Advice

This article via IHT, related to using the cameraphone as a diet device, is getting some major attention around the web this week. The product and service offering described there sounds very much like LifeWatcher from Mobile Healthcare Inc. which we first covered here on WWJ back in Aug. of 2003 including a video interview with the company CEO James Nakagawa.

The Health Ministry estimated last year that more than half of Japanese men and about one in five women between 40 and 70 years of age — nearly 20 million people — were at risk of metabolic syndrome, a term for a cluster of conditions associated with obesity, high cholesterol and increased risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

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