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Interactive platform for preventing obesity in adolescents

Roberta Frontini, researcher at ciTechCare, is co-author of the chapter “Interdisciplinary interactive platform for the promotion of healthy behaviors and the prevention of physical inactivity and obesity (Teenpower)” (pp. 83-91) of the book “Development of Sport and Quality of Life – Education, Research and Intervention”(doi: 10.34633/978-989-54743-4-9), published in 2020 by the Network of Schools with Training in Sports in Public Polytechnic Higher Education.The chapter presents the TeenPower mobile application (app), which aims to promote healthy behaviors and prevent overweight in adolescents. The mobile application includes several thematic educational resources (e.g., videos, infographics, menus, daily tips). Among these, the team highlights

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Synergies between technology and care for a better health

Maria Guarino, coordinator of the ciTechCare at the Polytechnic of Leiria, gave an interview where she spoke about the mission and vision of ciTechCare, its team and the privileged relationship that the research unit has with the Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, EPE and with the Agrupamento de Centros de Saúde (ACeS) Pinhal Litoral. The interview is available in the supplement ‘Information, Communication and Electronics Technologies’ (TICE) 2021, published with the February 25 edition of the newspaper Região de Leiria.Maria highlights the plans for the future: “We believe in the differentiation of this project. With all the challenges that ciTechCare, with

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Path to more customized nutritional therapy

Marlene Lages, Nutritionist and PhD Student at ciTechCare, published on February 24th an opinion article in the Diário de Leiria on the importance of researching new nutritional strategies that allow a more individualized nutritional therapy.The researcher highlights that, in order to prevent and fight diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, “the search for innovative, scientifically-based strategies that can complement the current guidelines is necessary.” For this, she is developing a study where she intends to “personalize and optimize the time interval in which meals are ingested, based on the evaluation of the individual “biological clock” markers. Biological clocks

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Health literacy is an extraordinary and powerfull weapon

Rui Fonseca-Pinto, an integrated member of ciTechCare and the current Director of the School of Health Sciences of the Polytechnic of Leiria , was interviewed by Jornal de Leiria on January 14th, where he spoke about the challenge of teaching during the pandemy and the future of the School. Rui emphasizes that “There is an extraordinary ingredient whichis the region. Here we have industry, partners providing healthcare, research, research-related companies and spin-offs, there is a huge potential for our training to have this differentiating framework”, and that higher education should also include the dimension of research – “Currently we have

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Mixed meal tolerance test as a screening methods for gestational diabetes: a narrative review

Caroline Pragosa, graduated in Dietetics and Nutrition by the School of Health Sciences of the Polytechnic of Leiria, co-authored with Marlene Lages, Cidália Pereira and Maria Guarino, researchers at ciTechCare, published the article “Mixed meal tolerance test as a screening method for gestational diabetes: a narrative review” in the Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição.The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test is the gold standard method for the diagnosis of diabetes, however, the use of a standard mixed meal may better represent the actual postprandial metabolic responses. In this article the authors compared the standard mixed meals that have already been tested as an

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The miracle of the wonderful science

Sónia Gonçalves Pereira, researcher at ciTechCare, published an opinion article on February 20 in Jornal de Leiria about the miracle of science and the discrimination that still exists in this area, not only because of gender, but also because of institutions and regions where science is conducted.Sónia highlights that «The International Women’s Day in Science was recently celebrated. A rising nurse-scientist, for whom I have both respect and admiration, told me that “it is a pity that these days are still needed, and that they criticize us when we leave the children, husband and home to do science”. But it

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