EatCORRECT – A Healthy Dieting System

Abstract

A meal planner can provide a list of recipes designed for a person to achieve a health goal such as reducing body weight. User can get a meal plan from a system and follow it but most meal plans are not tailored fit for a user. It might consist of foods or recipes that a user does not like to eat or with the foods that hard to find in some regions. Some meal plans are not built based on scientific facts. Apart from that following meal plan tightly is not always a possible task, if the user deviates from the plan it may not give expected results. User may not have a clear sight on achieving the goal. The EatCORRECT project provides a solution for this problem. It simply provides personalized meal plans with the recipes and foods that user loves to eat while tracking and informing user the progress powered by many supporting tools. EatCORRECT gets basic inputs such as weight, height, age, gender and meal preference as inputs from the user and calculates the total daily energy expenditure of the human body using most researched and scientifically proven methods. Based on the energy calculation, the EatCORRECT system generates a meal plan which consists with only the food that user likes to eat. The meal plans are well designed to address calorie requirement with well-balanced micro and macro nutrients that user required to achieve a healthy body. The meal plans are designed to achieve the weight goal of the user either to gain weight, lose weight or maintain the weight. EatCORRECT system provides an easy to use food database where user can find and record all the food nutrient information that consumed throughout the day. The system powered by a natural language processing based food nutrition search engine and activity tracker. Using these tools user can easily track the nutrition consumption, energy expenditure on activities and record the user progress on a digital diary. The EatCORRECT system always allow the user to get a meal plan whenever required. When user’s current weight is changed, user can generate a new tailored fit meal plan to help to achieve the ultimate weight goal. Overall the EatCORRECT system is a complete human wellbeing solution.