A dietary menu-generating system to promote healthy life

In Japan, it has been pointed out that the number of patients afflicted with lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipemia is rapidly growing. Theses lifestyle diseases are caused from Habitual excessive drinking/eating, biased nutrition, little physical activity, sleep deprivation or stress. It is well-known that bad lifestyle habit provokes lifestyle diseases. In other words, improvement of lifestyle habit prevents these diseases from progressing. To improve eating habits (alimentary therapy), knowledge of medicine and nutrition is required because it is very important to keep a daily calorie count and to get a balanced meal. There are many studies which are focused on health care however, none of them developed functions to assist planning balanced healthy meals. This paper describes a designing and implementation of alimentary therapy assist system. The system can record users´ individual data, such as gender, age, height, weight and so on. Also, this system has a function to accumulate clinical history. And this system calculates the moderate number of calories based on the individual information and medical information. Furthermore, this system has a function to accumulate user´s meal history and market information, and provides the user with healthy menu based on the meal history, individual information and market information