E-calories diary / Nurul Soffiah Abdul Aziz

Good food is important for the maintenance or restoration of health. A calorie used to measure body metabolism and it is not a nutrient or a substance but measure of food composition and heat energy. Most people especially in Malaysia lack of understanding of nutrition, digestion and the effects of the foods and other substances they consumes. Various ways of diet that has been tried but still failed in the process of losing, gaining and maintaining weight. This is because they do not know how to manage diet by taking the correct amount of calories needed in human body. The requirement need to be identified such as Body Mass Index (BMI) and Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) calculation, and amount of daily calories needed per person. The scope of this project is focused on population in Malaysia. Anyone can use ECalories Diary to BMI, BMR and daily calories need to control their diet to gain, loss or maintain their weight. Body Mass Index is calculated the same way regardless of height, weight, age and gender. However the results for children and teens interpreted differently than adults. Web based application used as a platform of the system by using the research approach of Web Development Life Cycle Methodology (WDLC). By implementing an artificial intelligence method in the system using knowledge representation, used to solve problems that requires knowledge and will be represented in the computer. The system can be enhance to the mobile application and add more features in the system. As a conclusion, ECalories Diary system could be a medium to give information about calories in foods and give benefits to person on diet.