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AI demonstrated promising applications in the nutritional management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with evidence suggesting benefits in dietary pattern recognition, treatment response prediction, personalised patient support, and identification of patient needs, according to a recent scoping review. 

Obesity is a chronic, adiposity-based disease with increasing global prevalence and multiple, competing definitions. Traditionally, body mass index (BMI) has been the primary tool for diagnosis, although it does not completely reflect adipose tissue mass, distribution or associated organ dysfunction. In the past 2 years, major professional societies (including the European Association for the Study…

Wearable devices such as smartwatches are often used to monitor glucose at a glance. But by tracking physical activity, sleep quality, signs of stress, and other measures, they can monitor and encourage habits that can help improve diabetes management and overall health. 

In observance of Diabetes Awareness Week, we are reminded that diabetes has quietly become one of the country’s most serious public health threats. Ranked among the leading causes of death among Filipinos in 2024 and 2025, diabetes affects millions of people and contributes to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, nerve damage, and lower-limb amputations.…