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A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone

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A 2017 study looked at seven such typical devices, and found their counts were off between 27 and 93 percent , depending on the device. Our Python scripts are available for download from a public repository.) The problem is that smartphones and smartwatches do a terrible job at calorie counting.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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Only in 1970 did ambulatory blood-glucose testing become possible; in 1980 it became commercially available. Our model described the interaction over time of glucose and insulin by means of differential equations representing the best available estimates of human physiology. The system was cleared by the FDA for clinical use in 2017.

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