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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. The road to the calorie counter began in our lab (the Human Performance Laboratory in the Stanford University School of Engineering ), where we study things like the metabolic cost of walking.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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William Clarke/University of Virginia. In 2007, our group at the University of Virginia proposed using computer-simulation experiments instead. Together with our colleagues at the University of Padua, in Italy, we created a computer model of glucose-insulin dynamics that operated on 300 virtual subjects with type 1 diabetes.

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