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Obesity can be classified as one of the most dangerous diseases in the world, as the number of obese people keeps on increasing. Obesity is related to many chronic diseases such as cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, also to many factors such as eating habits and inactivity. This last can be caused by people’s addiction to Internet and especially social networks. This research introduces a new approach in the daily fight against obesity, by proposing a system that supports a community of overweight people, obese people, their families and friends, physicians, and anyone who might need help and support from this community or who can offer help to members of the community. In addition to the new system proposed a specific purpose social network to support this community was developed in order to help them discuss their problems, express their specific needs, share their experiences and motivate other members by sharing their experience with obesity… etc.
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Benatmane, A., Bouchachi, R., Akhrouf, S., Belayadi, Y. (2018). Social Networking for Obesity Prevention and Eradication for Algerian Teenagers. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning. IMCL 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 725. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75175-7_70
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