Project description
Personalised interventions preventing obesity in vulnerable age groups
Obesity is a health concern affecting over 30 % of EU citizens. Interventions targeting obesity have limited effectiveness as they focus on diet or physical activity while neglecting other factors such as socioeconomic aspects, host-biological factors, environment, dietary preferences, and fitness levels. The EU-funded HealthyW8 project aims to enhance the effectiveness of current and future obesity prevention initiatives across Europe. This will be achieved through the iterative development of a digital-based healthy lifestyle recommender, which will provide evidence-based, personalised interventions and tools. The project will engage various stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, food industries, policymakers, and EU citizens. HealthyW8 will specifically target three key demographics: children, young adults, and the elderly.
Objective
Over 30% of EU citizens at vulnerable stages and situations in life are at increased risk to transgress from healthy weight to overweight and further to obesity. Though many interventions to tackle obesity have been proposed, they have rarely been effective. The aim of HealthyW8 is to advance the efficacy of current and future efforts and investments in obesity prevention initiatives across Europe. Most interventions suffer from not adapting to personal context (e.g. socioeconomic aspects, host-biological factors, environment, dietary preferences, fitness level etc.), focus only on diet or physical activity alone, do especially overlook emotional aspects, and fail to engage and motivate the user. Thus, initiatives on obesity prevention in policy and practice are often of marginal impact. HealthyW8 will address these shortcomings by iteratively developing, together with stakeholders, a digital-based healthy lifestyle recommender for evidence-based, tailored interventions and tools including a human digital twin to bridge the gap between science, societal actors and stakeholders (e.g. healthcare professionals, food industries, policymakers) and EU citizens. The targeted populations are those undergoing transitions, i.e. schoolchildren (5-10 y, and their parents), young adults (18-25 y) and the elderly (>65 y). In the mid-term, we estimate that with 200,000 HealthyW8 users, we will prevent 10,000 obesity cases/y. In the long run, the impact will be maximized through adopting the project’s proposed methodology, platform and tools by as many EU institutions and entities as possible. HealthyW8 is a highly experienced, synergistic and complementary consortium that will built on a previously developed digital dietary app (LIFANA) and draw on transdisciplinary research in pan-EU multicentre pilots and long-term randomized control trials to achieve its overarching objective of increasing impact of current and future obesity prevention interventions and policies in the EU.
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4362 Esch Sur Alzette
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4362 Esch-Sur-Alzette
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67663 Kaiserslautern
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1784 Sofia
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28359 Bremen
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08011 Barcelona
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08860 Castelldefels
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12042 Bra
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00185 Roma
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50059 Zaragoza
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7000 803 Evora
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07120 Palma
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40138 Bologna
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40126 Bologna
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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7522 NB Enschede
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3004-531 Coimbra
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9002 Varna
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5612 AE Eindhoven
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54100 Massa Ms
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555300 Cisnadie
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1017 RR Amsterdam
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08021 Barcelona
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1411 DC Naarden
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.