ABSTRACT
Most people are concern about what they eat every day. People tent to search information about the things that they eat or what related to their diet. Diet is the sum of food consumes by a person. The diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons. A particular diet may be chosen to seek weight loss or weight gain. Some food are specifically recommended or altered for conformity to the requirements of a particular diet .
Nowadays, there are systems which help people to manage their diet. However, the systems are not specifically focusing on the user’s needs. Different people will require different dietary needs or nutrition for their body. This is due to variety of weight, daily activity level on so on. So, they need something that will help them with their own personal body needs. The system that has been developed is a Low Carbohydrate Dietary Planning System. Low Carbohydrate Dietary Meal Planning System is a web-based system designed to provide dietary menu plans for Malaysians. There will be dietary recommendations for the user based on what they need. The meals in the system are referred to Atkins diet .The Atkins diet allows the dieter to consume as much protein and fat as desired, while severely limiting carbohydrate consumption .
Rule-based system method are used to store and manipulate knowledge to interpret information in a useful ways. Hence, rule-based system method is implemented in the system to generate the diet plans and health guidelines for user.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
Low Carbohydrate Dietary Planning System is a web based application system. It is responsible to develop diet plan and health guidelines of diet for people that want to lose weight through the concept of burning carbohydrate and fats in body. Low-carbohydrate diets have claimed to promote weight loss .
It is a system which can help the user in Malaysia to manage their daily diet or food intake that is suitable for their body needs. The system is one of the effective and efficient alternatives to reduce the weight loss and change to healthy lifestyles which benefit people in many ways. The dietary menu plans are generated based on user health conditions which are activity level phases of diet, and body mass index (BMI). The system will suggest the suitable dietary intake for the user. This is based from their needs. So, it will help the user to choose what kind of food servings those are suitable for their body. It will be easier for the user to plan their daily diet better. While diet plan suggestion are referring to Atkins Diet. The Atkins diet allows the dieter to consume as much protein and fat as desired, while severely limiting carbohydrate consumption . According to Atkins research the less carbohydrate and high protein a person take can loss their weight.
The system is developed using PHP for web development and MySQL as the database platform. Artificial intelligence methods are implemented in the system by using rule-based system in order to produce diet plans and guidelines of low carbohydrate diet.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
- People nowadays are very concern about their health. They care about what they eat. However, most of them lack knowledge about how to choose and what kind of food servings that is suitable for their body. This is because, different people will have different needs of dietary . Due to variety of age, weight, height, gender, and lifestyle.
- In this modern day, people live in a hectic world and always on the go. So, some of them just do not have the time to go very details about what they should eat. They just eat without knowing what is actually suitable for their body. In this case, they need something that can help them quickly without having to cost them much in their eating habit. They need something that can help them quickly like in just a few clicks.
- There are online diet systems in the Internet, mostly Western, just want to gain profit and make money. Even though at first it looks like the system want to provide useful information for the user, but then it will promote their product such as slimming patch and weight loss drink.
OBJECTIVE
- To design a dietary planning system for people who want to lose weight via low carbohydrate concept.
- To develop a system that can recommend appropriate diet plan for low carbohydrate diet people.
- To implement rule-based method in Low Carbohydrate Diet Planner.
SYSTEM FRAMEWORK
Admin will login into the system then admin can manage the health condition, guidelines, food and generate report.
Admin is responsible in updating the guidelines and food (diet plan).
Users need to register the login into the system to able to manage their personal details and health condition. Then the system will generates the suitable menu diet.
All the information will be stored in the database.
Admin will login into the system then admin can manage the health condition, guidelines, food and generate report.
Admin is responsible in updating the guidelines and food (diet plan).
Users need to register the login into the system to able to manage their personal details and health condition. Then the system will generates the suitable menu diet.
All the information will be stored in the database.
ALGORITHM AND TECHNIQUES USED
RULE-BASED METHOD
Rule-based systems are used to store and manipulate knowledge to interpret information in a useful way.
A rule-based system consists of a set of IF-THEN rules, a set of facts and some interpreter controlling the application of the rules, given the facts. Rule-based system are the simplest form of artificial intelligence . |
RESULT
CONCLUSION Low Carbohydrate Dietary Planning System is a web based application system. It is responsible to develop diet plan and health guidelines of diet for people that want to lose weight through the concept of burning carbohydrate and fats in body. It is a system which can help the user in Malaysia to manage their daily diet or food intake that is suitable for their body needs.
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