Mobile Application Design to Develop a Healthy Lifestyle with Balanced Nutrition for Young Adults

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211228.059How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Telehealth; Mobile Application; Technology; Nutrition; Design Thinking

Abstract

Covid-19 creates new challenges for the health world besides the risk of being exposed to the virus. Our eating habits are one of the new challenges that need to be resolved, especially for the young adult. This new eating habit appears triggered by stress, anxiety, boredom or just to feel happy. Generations of young adults are aware of the need for healthy food and are starting to get used to eat supplements and avoiding certain foods that are felt to have a negative impact on the body. All of this is done to build immunity to prevent Covid-19. However, now is not the right time to run a diet program with a fear, it is time for us to focus more on a better diet and make sure we no longer eat foods that can trigger cholesterol, diabetes and obesity, because all these diseases are the biggest risk factor for someone is having a high level of severity when exposed to Covid-19 infection. Now, we need to know exactly what, when and how to focus on what goes into the body to have a good and fit immune and most importantly happy. Therefore, an innovation is needed to help the young adult in growing awareness for healthy living. The use of smartphones is a technology that cannot be separated, smartphones are able to be present in every aspect of daily life in young adults, as a means of communicating, seeking information or just entertainment. The author analyzes several health applications based on healthy eating and living on smartphones using the Design Thinking Method. The purpose of writing this article is to build and start healthy living habits for young adults. With the hope that in the future young adults can avoid various chronic diseases caused at old age.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Trezanor Fadli Munandar
AU  - Intan Rizky Mutiaz
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/28
TI  - Mobile Application Design to Develop a Healthy Lifestyle with Balanced Nutrition for Young Adults
BT  - Proceedings of the ICON ARCCADE 2021: The 2nd International Conference on Art, Craft, Culture and Design (ICON-ARCCADE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 453
EP  - 459
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211228.059
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211228.059
ID  - Munandar2021
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