Foodscanner: No Monster in My Tummy
Meilia Dwi Cahyani
AMSA Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia
The metabolic syndrome is a combination of several abnormalities, including
abdominal obesity, glucose intolerance, hypertension and dyslipidemia that
usually share insulin resistance as a common underlying pathophysiological
disturbance. The metabolic syndrome is associated with the risk of type 2
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality on the daily caloric intake
and nutrient composition. According to the data from the World Health
Organization (WHO) in 2011, the rate of obesity in the world has more than
doubled since 1980. In fact, nearly 43 million children under five are overweight
in 2010 and the prevalence was significantly higher in female than male especially
for central obesity. It is a fact that is very worrying because from the higher rate of
this obesity you can suffer from many disease especially type 2 diabetes with
insulin resistance. Diabetes patients always have to maintain their glucose intake
every time they are eating something and sometimes if the resistance is too severe
so they have to inject insulin everyday before eating something. As the future
thinking goes on, we think about something that can prevent all of that problem
from the early phase before the diseases come to us. We have an idea to make a
Food Scanner application that can scan all of the nutrition fact from the food that we
will eat. We can know about the glycemic index, protein level, lipid concentration,
vitamins and their mineral. So, for diabetic patient this tool can help them
manage their disease because they can know how many the glucose intake before
they will eat so they can control their blood glucose near the normal line. Our main
goal is to make people know what they are going to eat clearly so they can choose
the best healthy meal to maintain their health. So, scan the monster in your
food now, because you are what you eat.
Contact Person;
Meilia Dwi Cahyani
[email protected]
+6281249466762