An Implementation of Interactive Healthy Eating Index and Healthcare System on Mobile Platform in College Student Samples

Abstract

This research focuses on designing and structuring a smart healthcare system for college students in Taiwan. It is expected to utilize the method of technology for assisting college students in controlling their dietaries and physical activities by establishing an interactive healthy diet evaluation and healthcare system. Due to the rapid development of smart phone applications, the users can easily record the dietary contents, nutrients, and exercise process anyplace and anywhere. This system contains diet module and exercise module. It can automatically supply the proposal with accordance to the users' basic information of age, gender, favorite food, and exercise. Students can observe the taken nutrients or calories and then regulate their dietary and exercising habits. This can protect them from chronic diseases that might happen in future as well.

Keywords

• Daily eating habits
• smart healthcare system
• technology assist
• interactive healthy diet
• smart phone APP