A web-based diet management system using web scraping technique / Nurul Khairah Shahairi

Due to busy lifestyle, following a healthy diet is quite challenging. People nowadays are very concerned about their health but, most of them lack knowledge about how to choose and what kind of food servings that is suitable for their body. Rising cost of living make people to eat fast food rather than healthy food. The number of people diagnosed with obesity and other non-communicable diseases increasing year by year. The diet management system was developed to give user recommend food based on their calorie needs or single food recommendation with calorie stated with it where they can organize their own diet. This system also intended to help users who concern with their weight or want to live in a healthy lifestyle. Users will require different calorie intake based on their body needs because have variations in height, weight, age and daily activity level. In this paper, the proposed work is implemented with PHP, HTML and CSS by using Laravel while web scraping technique used to extract food name and calorie data from other websites. Diet Management System are expected to potentially improve the overall health and reduce the risk of chronic diseases of individuals. In future work, I will implement a sophisticated auto-help tools applications or web applications to the end users to maintain their weight while enjoying Malaysian food.