NU12 #5: Submitted by Ermel Retuta food intake controller?

NU12 # 5 – More food options

Submitted by Ermel Retuta
MBA – MM, SPENTREP

Managing your food intake

It is ironic that even with the increase on the interest of people towards healthy lifestyle and physically wanted to be lean, slim and sexy, less can you find the supply of low calorie and healthy food options. What if we create a device that manages the body's input of food, most especially the calorie count?

I remember the movie entitled "The Island", wherein the supply of food is controlled depending on the condition of the person. If the person is found to be high in blood pressure, his food options will be more on fiber and even if he wants bacon for breakfast he will be deprived of it.

Sound difficult right? Depriving yourself of eating what you want is the same as depriving yourself the freedom to enjoy life.
Thus, we need a personal device that gives us options on what type of food we can eat and how much do we need to intake to reach and achieve the daily goal on calorie intake.

This is how the device should work, you need to input your body's condition, weight, height, sugar level, blood pressure, HDL, LDL, cholesterol level, triglycerides etc. everything that is impacted every time you eat food or drink any form of liquid. Also, you can input physical activities for the day like exercises performed etc.

Now here's how the device should work, given the said condition it will give you options on what type of food you need to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner and it will also give you how much calorie you can take for the day.

This might sound like a simple diet plan given by dieticians but the difference is that the device is flexible enough to consider everything you had for the day, if you exercise today it should give you more options on food that you can take as the body needs more protein and energy. The same idea if you just sit there and no physical activities done for the day less will be the food options you can have.

I believe this should work as compared to existing diet plans as this is more realistic as it involves our choices and our actions.

Lastly, the device should be able to assess what works for you and what doesn't work. If you love broccoli but hate apple, it will give you options on the substitutes that you can take so as to get the equivalent nutrients supplied by those foods that you do not like to eat.  4