Nur Rodiatul Raudah binti Mohamed Radzuan, Noor Hikmah binti Mohd Salleh,Sofi binYahya and Mohd Rizal bin Manan
Keywords: obesity, calories, quantity of food, calories detector
Abstract: In this modern era, people become more concerned in observing their weight and eating more healthily. Recently, the obesity cases increasing day by day and continues to be a severe health problem in our times. The major factor of this phenomenon is because the quantity of food intake and the energy consumed by the persons is imbalance. In order for the people to maintain their health in a correct way, daily food intake by the individuals must be measured as has been advised by the nutritionist. Unfortunately, majority of people who want to keep their health are facing common difficulties in measuring and estimating the quantity of food intake due to lack of food nutritional knowledge. Due to this case, meal calories detector device which stored some nutritional data information is very useful to the user to know the amount of calorie in their meal. The user just need to put their meal on this device and the weight of the meal will be detected. The calories information will be displayed on the LCD screen after the user enter the code number by using keypad. The code number is represent the type of the meal. This device’s system will determine the meal calorie based on the weight and the type of the meal. In addition, this system will help the user to estimate their ideal amount of calorie in their everyday meal intake.