ue to the ever growing number of elderly peo-ple coupled with limited resources in terms of medical facilities and personnel in many countries, the burden that conventional healthcare systems carry is becoming heavy. On the other hand, tra-ditional human face-to-face communications are mostly replaced by networking in social and cyber spaces, which causes various unhealthy living hab-its, such as insufficient physical exercise, unhealthy diet, irregular sleeping, and more frequent “burn- ing the midnight oil.” All these factors are usually the keys to triggering chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, hyperlipemia, diabetes, tumor, obesity, and chronic respiratory disease

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