Apollo SHINE foundation partners with health platform to drive preventive care for college students

Apollo SHINE Foundation, a not-for-profit inaugural of the Apollo Hospitals group, has announced a concern with an AI-driven wellness and nutrition platform, to beforehand preventive healthcare efforts among students astatine DG Vaishnav College, Chennai.

The inaugural aims to enactment students identified arsenic ‘at-risk’ for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) done a screening programme by Apollo SHINE and providing them aboriginal entree to ‘EatGPT’ integer wellness level by Tweak & Eat.

Early NCD hazard markers

Indira Jayakumar, Medical Director, Apollo SHINE Foundation, said that findings from screening of implicit 1 lakh assemblage students crossed India highlighted a increasing prevalence of aboriginal NCD hazard markers, including obesity, pre-diabetes, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome, among young adults. “This needs urgent request for timely, actionable interventions beyond diagnosis,” she said.

Narayanan Ram, CEO, Tweak & Eat, said the platform, integrated with EatGPT, provides coaching solutions, enabling users to upload photographs of their meals for instant nutritional investigation and actionable tweaks related to information size, nutrient substitutions, and balance. The level besides provides personalised repast plants, consultations with certified nutritionists, customised workout routines, and tracking of cardinal wellness parameters.

S. Santhosh Baboo, Principal, DG Vaishnav College; Kishore Manohar, Director, Apollo SHINE Foundation, were present.