IRJET- Virtual Dietitian: An Android based Application to Provide Diet

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
Volume: 07 Issue: 01 | Jan 2020 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
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Virtual Dietitian: An Android based Application to Provide Diet
Prof. Prajkta Khaire1, Rishikesh Suvarna2, Ashraf Chaudhary3
1Professor. Prajkta Khaire, Dept. of Information Technology Engineering, SSJCOE, Maharashtra, India
2Student Rishikesh Suvarna, Dept. of Information Technology Engineering, SSJCOE, Maharashtra, India
3Student Ashraf Chaudhary, Dept. of Information Technology Engineering, SSJCOE, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract - This application provides the user with a
complex algorithm which can provide the user with a diet
plan based on his/her characteristics like height, weight,
BMI etc. In Today's busy life everyone can just dream of
having a proper balanced diet. A balanced diet is
important because your organs and tissues need proper
nutrition to work effectively. Without good nutrition, your
body is more prone to disease, infection, fatigue, and poor
performance. Children with a poor diet run the risk of
growth and developmental problems and poor academic
performance, and bad eating habits can persist for the rest
of their lives. At the core of a balanced diet are foods that
are low in unnecessary fats and sugars and high in
vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. The following food
groups are essential parts of a balanced diet. Calories play
a vital role in our growth and energy. A good diet can help
you manipulate calorie intake based on your
requirements. The proposed application will provide the
user with a user-friendly User-Interface where they can
create an account, manage their account and get the diet
by the click of just one button. If the user is allergic to
some kind of food, it also has the feature to contact an
actual dietitian to consult. And there’s also a page where
the user can just read some interesting facts on health and
human body. This application will save a lot of user’s time
by not actually visiting a dietitian and getting everything
done on their phone.
Keywords: Health, Diet, BMI, Save Time
1. INTRODUCTION
Virtual dietitian android application is an application
which provides a generic diet to its users. It acts as a diet
consultant similar to a real Dietitian. This system acts in
a similar way as that of a dietitian. A person in order to
know his/her diet plan needs to give some information
to the dietitian such as its body type, weight, height and
working hour details. Similar way this system also
provides the diet plan according to the information
entered by the user. The system asks all his data from
the user and processes it to provide the diet plan to the
user. Thus, the user does not need to visit any dietitian
which also saves time and the user can get the required
diet plan in just a click. The system will give more
accurate results as it accepts the data entered by the user
and processes it depending on some metrics already
known to the application on the basis of which a diet
plan is generated and ask the user if the user accepts the
diet plan. If not accepted the system may also give and
alternative diet plan. This application not only provides
the user a proper & healthy diet but also provides the
user all the workout information. There is a card for
Work out details for all the workout programs for each
body part. If a user wants to stay fit and eat healthy, he
can surely follow the program provided to him. The
Application also has a card for Health Facts on the home
screen, which will provide all the general knowledge and
some amazing facts on our human body and body parts.
This Application can be a vital part of a user if he wishes
to maintain his health and body perfectly and follow the
diet plan & the workout plan provided to the user.
2. RELATED WORK
In the Literature Survey part, we observed the main goal
of our project which was to be made and started
searching for published papers on it which will help us in
building the application. We went across many IEEE &
Bayes Papers and found many papers which was some or
the other way connected to our project based on health.
We found many interesting papers as well as simple
ones, we gathered the data from them. In the existing
health care system, the primary requirement and
disadvantage is physical presence of patient and doctor
for every consultation. Also, there is a high chance of
misinterpretation of data as well as occurrence of errors.
Moreover, it is cumbersome and time consuming. With
the increase in volume of patients in the health care
institutes, traditional method of management has gone
out of phase. As a result of this, an advanced Health Care
Management System has been the demand of time. Some
Systems were built directly for sole purpose of a single
disease like Obesity, down syndrome etc. and some were
general purpose applications, some projects website
based and some were mobile application based. Our
project was to be built on android so that people can get
a good UI and also the app should be user-friendly. Some
of the applications were paid-to-use and some were free,
we wanted to build our project to be free to all. We
started gathering information on the existing system and
how it works and also a real dietitian works and
calculates a diet based on a person’s details like height,
age, weight, gender etc. Even the internet helped us a lot
for finding some basic formulas for calculating the diet
and total calories. A person’s diet totally depends upon
what kind of activity he does in a day. If he/she has a
hardworking job then they may lose more kcal as

compared to other person who doesn’t do much of hard
work, so we have to calculate the Kcal based on the
activity level of the person. The total calories to be
consumed should be balanced proportion of macro
nutrients like Proteins, Carbohydrates and Fats, with the
ratio of 2:2:1. In the existing health care system, the
primary requirement and disadvantage is physical
presence of patient and doctor for every consultation.
Also, there is a high chance of misinterpretation of data
as 4 well as occurrence of errors. Moreover, it is
cumbersome and time consuming. With the increase in
volume of patients in the health care institutes,
traditional method of management has gone out of
phase. As a result of this, an advanced Health Care
Management System has been the demand of time.
3. DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION METHODS
3.1 Design
In this, we design the overview and implementation of
the project was discussed. The modules discussed to be
implemented are listed with some details.
 User Dashboard
 New Diet
 Workouts
 Health Facts
In the Design Process, we first designed the flow of
events in which the application would work, which can
be seen in the flowchart below In the Design Process, we
first designed the flow of events in which the application
would work, which can be seen in the flowchart below.
We have to design a user registration system to be able
to gain user information to calculate their details, we
designed the registration and login system using
Google’s Firebase – A cloud-based system to store our
data and authentication. It has a very easy to use
interface and the Doc helps in implementing it. In the
Registration process the app will take the details of users
like age, height, weight, gender etc. and store it in the
firebase database.
There will be a dashboard card, where after the user logs
in can view his details and also edit/ update the data.
The Diet Plan card will give the user his data based on
the details provided by the user while registering. All the
calculations to get results was through research &
getting the right formulas.
The Workout card was designed with the recycler view
of the android’s design system, it provides a list of items,
we can change or update any items in the recycler view.
Figure 1. Class Diagram of the application
Figure 2. Flowchart of the application
3.2 Implementation
Implementation is done with the help of the reference
papers used and the internet, the application is built
using Google’s very own Android Studio. The Android
Studio Docs helped us to implement certain design
features to out app and also add API’s for the firebase

database & authentication. A few tutorials helped us to
create a stable application that can work properly.
The Formulas used for calculating the BMI (Body mass
Index) and to calculate the total calories to intake was
found on internet on some research.
Formula for BMI:
BMI = Weight / Height 2
Where,
Weight is in Kilograms,
Height is in Meters.
Formula for calculating Maintenance Calories:
Calories = (Weight * 22) * Activity Multiplier
Where,
Weight is in Kilograms,
Activity Multiplies refers to the amount of activity done
in a day; it ranges from 1.2 for moderate work to 2.0 for
extreme work done.
Calculating Diet & Providing Diet:
The Maintenance calories of the users has to be
calculated on the basis of his height, weight, age etc. The
Maintenance Calories are calculated with the help of the
formula given above, once the calories are calculated
then the system decides if the user is in a under-weight,
healthy or overweight category based on his BMI.
The User is then suggested which type of diet program
he / she should start, the user is still given the option to
opt for the diet category like, Gain weight, Maintain
Weight or Lose Weight. Based on the category selected
the diet is provided by the application to the user. The
Diet is based on the charts of diets calculated & created
by expert Dietitians and Nutritionists all over the globe.
The User still has to option to consult a physical dietitian
if he / she has some issues with the diet provided or has
some food allergies or irritations, for example some
people are Lactose Intolerant, so the dietitian will
suggest some replacement for the lactose-based
products in the diet.
Application UI:
Figure 3. Dashboard. Screenshot
Figure 4. Registration Page Screenshot

Figure 5. Diet Page Screenshot
Figure 6. Nutrition Tab Screenshot
4. CONCLUSION
With the proposed application on mobile phones, we will
be able to bring the Dietitian App on the palm of every
individual. The application can be deployed on the cloud
by integrating different servers through the cloud in its
future iterations. With respect to the feedback of the App
users’ further improvements can be incorporated within
the system to make it more users friendly. In our
approach for implementing this project is we have
implemented a virtual dietitian using android. Our
system comprises of main components such as of a user
login and an admin login. The software system allows
the user to create their profiles and upload all their
details and their BMI is calculated by the system. The
admin can check each user details and can remove faulty
accounts. People who are in need of a serious health care
but are busy with their schedules, can start using our
application and start following the diet and workout
programs. With the help of this application, user doesn’t
have to go to an actual dietitian he can have a dietitian in
the palm of his hands.
FUTURE SCOPE
 This application can be further improved by
feedback suggestions from the users.
 This application can be improved with the help
of an expert nutritionist who can help us
creating different types of programs for
different classification of users.
 The project is easily extensible and can be
improved by further incremental releases of the
same.
 We plan to focus on improving the overall
performance of the system. Also, interaction
between guider and dietitian through video
calling and secure prescription will be focused
upon.
 Some more ways to achieve dietitian will be
focused.
REFERENCES
Published Survey Papers:
[1] 2395-0056, Prof. DV Chandran, Sayali Adarkar,
Apoorva Joshi, Preeti Kajbajd,, “Digital Medicine:
An android based application for health care
system”, IRJET, Volume-4, 04Apr-2017.
[2] 16-0227, Hilde A.E Geraedts, Wiebren Zijlstra,
Wei Zhang, Sophie L.W. Spoorenberg,
“Home Based Exercise Program Driven By
Tablet Application & Mobility Monitoring, Public
Health Research”, Volume 14-E12, Feb-2017.
[3] 73-93, Jonathan Lazar, Caitlin Woglon, Jeanhee
Chunk, Alison Schwartz, Richard Moore, Co-

“Design Process of a Smart Phone App to Help
People with Down Syndrome“
Manage their Nutritional Habits, Journal of
Usability Studies, Volume 13, 02-Feb-2018.
[4] 305755235, Rodrigo Zenun Franco, Julie Anne
Lovegrove, Rosalind Fallaize, Foustina Hwang,
Popular Nutrition-Related Mobile Apps: A
Feature Assessment, JMIR MHEALTH &
UHEALTH, Volume-4 Issue-3, Aug-2016.
[5] 2456-3307, Talapanty Shweta, Vangari Sweta,
Singh Deepali, Prof. Shrikant Sanas, Gaonkar
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Documentations:
 1.Android Studio Documentations
 2.Java Documentations

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