Mobile calories calculator and advisor for healthy diet

Abstract

This is a WAP server application based project which provides the information on topic of health care by the theories like calorie, Body Mass Index (BMI), Resting Energy Expenditure (REE), food calorie, and healthy diet as well. The software is developed by Wireless Markup Language (WML) as the program language, Wireless Markup Language Script (WMLScript) as the scripting language, and Data Source Name (DSN) as the environment of databases. It can be accessed through the wireless handheld devices, such as mobile phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and wireless communicators as long as a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-enabled device. It will be a new service on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) application with the absence of the similarly service or idea in the market so far. The vision and mission of the project is to increase the awareness of citizens towards their lifestyle. It is designed to be user-friendly so that it may suite the standard in all levels of citizens. It is capable to deliver the health condition to the users based on user’s Body Mass Index (BMI) result. Besides, users can aptly control their daily intake calories by knowing their daily needed calories. Thus, they can avoid consuming the unhealthy food excessively. Hence, the social problem of obesity can be decreased.