JP2000322388A - Intake calorie computer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To grasp the nutrient balance of the current intake calorie by changing a start display state according to nutrient balance included in a menu with which dishes are taken in on that day when power is supplied. SOLUTION: When a power switch 3 is pressed down, whether a taken meal menu is selected is displayed on a displaying part 2. The meal menu is made to be shown by using a cross key 4 and a decision key 5, and the quantity is inputted. All dishes taken in at the meal are inputted. The total intake calories are calculated and stored in a memory. The display states of an initial picture are changed according to the state of an intake calorie when power is supplied. When the intake calorie of each food group satisfies an allowable intake calorie, a design or a numerical number meaning the food group is not displayed. When a set key 9 is pressed down, a nutrient balance display mode appears, and the total intake calories for food taken in on that day and the intake calorie in each group are shown.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a calorie calculator for supporting a dietary life in which a dietary menu to be ingested can be properly taken from calories and balance.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, it has been reported from various aspects that obesity elimination is important for the prevention of adult diseases. In addition, among young women, diet-oriented spreads for the purpose of beauty,
He is interested in calorie intake and calorie consumption. Alternatively, some people are losing weight unnecessarily due to unbalanced eating. Calories must be calculated for these diets and diets, and portable calorie calculators have been provided that can be used on the go. These are, for example, by registering personal information such as the age, gender, height, weight, living intensity of the user, and by entering the food name or pre-assigned food number each time a meal is taken, The calorie calculator displays the total value of the calorie intake during the day, and compares and displays the calorie required for the day obtained from the personal information.

[0003]

The calorie calculator described above calculates the ideal permissible calorie of the person from the personal data, and inputs the meal menu actually eaten by the person. The calorie intake was calculated and compared, but when considering the nutritional balance, it was not immediately apparent which food group was overtaken or deficient. In addition, the nutritional balance can be recognized only by judging whether or not the intake status of each food group has been ingested based on the concept of a score, but the ratio of the intake calories to the target calories cannot be recognized.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and when using a calorie calculator, immediately
The nutritional balance of the current calorie intake with respect to the daily allowable calorie intake can be grasped, and the nutritional balance of each meal menu item can also be grasped.

[0005]

A calorie calculator according to the present invention comprises: input means for inputting personal information and a consumed meal menu; calculating means for calculating calorie intake based on data from the input means; It has a display unit that displays calorie calculation results, and a storage unit that stores the nutritional balance included in multiple types of meal menus. Shall be changed.

Further, the calorie calculator of the present invention comprises: input means for inputting personal information and an ingested meal menu; calculating means for calculating the calorie intake based on data from the input means; and a calculation result of the calorie intake by the calculating means. A display unit for displaying, and a storage unit for storing nutritional balances included in a plurality of types of meal menus, wherein when a meal menu is selected, the nutrients included in the meal are displayed in a graph for each food group. I do.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The calorie calculator of the present invention uses personal information (age, height,
The current calorie, target weight, gender, living intensity, etc.) calculate the permissible calorie intake (target calorie) of the person in the calculation unit, and the total intake of the day from the meal menu and the amount of meal inputted for each meal The calorie and the calorie for each food group are obtained, and the satisfaction rate of the calorie intake with respect to the target calorie is obtained and displayed. This display is performed by numerical values or graphs.

[0008] In the calorie calculator of the present invention, a number from 1 to 5 or a picture representing each classification classified by food group is displayed when the power is turned on. This display shows that day, 1
The displayed content is changed according to the calorie intake for each food group required from the meal menu ingested on the day. For food groups that already satisfy the allowable calorie intake per day set for each food group at that time, , The number or the picture which means the food group is not displayed. When the power is turned on at the beginning of the day, all the numbers or pictures are displayed because no food has yet been consumed and no food group satisfies the allowable calorie intake.

Further, the calorie calculator of the present invention, when selecting an ingested meal menu, displays the meal menu on the display section of the calculator one by one by operating a key, and confirms the corresponding item by the user and decides. Is what you do. Simultaneously or by pressing a key when displaying this meal menu one by one, the nutrients of the meal menu alone in one serving are displayed for each food group.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a display unit and an operation unit in the calorie calculator of the present invention. On the front of the calorie calculator 1, a display unit 2 for displaying various information such as a meal menu, a calorie intake, and a balance for each food group is provided. A power switch 3, a cross key 4, an enter key 5, a return key 6, a manual input key 7. A plurality of operation keys such as a recall key 8 and a setting key 9 are provided, a CPU for performing various calculations is built in the calculator, and a total memory per unit weight of each meal menu is previously stored in a memory unit. Calories and calories by food group are stored.

It is necessary to make settings as initial settings. When the power switch 3 is pressed, the display section 2 displays the initial screen shown in FIG. 2A, and the setting mode is set by pressing the setting key 9 in this state. Four-way controller 4 which is an input device for inputting personal data of the user's date of birth, gender, height, weight, and living intensity
Enter with.

Next, a target weight and a target period are input as diet target settings. At this time, perform a safety check to see if there is any difficulty or danger to lose the weight in that period,
When there is a problem, the message "Impossible diet. Please re-enter." Is displayed on the display to prompt the user to reset. If you have a safe diet goal, CP
The age is obtained from the date of birth input in U. Nutritional requirements are calculated from age, gender, height, and living intensity. The current weight, target weight, and daily calorie intake to achieve from the target period must be calculated and displayed on the display unit 2. Then, the initial setting is completed. If the target weight is the same as the current weight, a calorie required for maintaining the current weight is set. Also, a person whose daily intake calories are designated by a doctor or the like can directly input the designated calories.

In the input mode of the ingested food, a menu actually taken in the meal is selectively inputted. Here, as an example, a case where one serving of “beef curry” is ingested will be described. First, use the cross key to search for the meal menu you consumed.
When the power switch 3 is pressed, whether or not to select the ingested meal menu is displayed on the display unit 2 as an initial screen as shown in FIG. 2A, and the enter key 5 is pressed here. As shown in FIG. 2 (b), the display unit 2 displays the Japanese syllabary “Aioka Okikukeko...” And selects the first letter of the menu name taken with the cross key 4. Here, we ate beef curry, so select "hi". Here, when the enter key 5 is pressed, the menu in which the first character is "hi" among the registered meal menus is sequentially displayed. Here, "Hijikigohan" (hijiki rice) is displayed first. By selecting the upper or lower part of the four-way controller 4 again, the food menu with "hi" is displayed in order.
"Beef curry" is displayed as shown in FIG. When the right side of the cross key 4 is pressed while the "beef curry" is displayed, the display is switched to the balance for each food group for one meal menu as shown in FIG. 2D.

The display of FIG. 2 (d) is a graph showing the nutritional balance of one meal menu for one person, divided into five groups. The five-group method used here is divided as shown in Table 1 below.

[0015]

[Table 1]

[0016] The five-group method is designed so that the nutrients necessary to maintain a healthy body can be taken evenly and equally. The pattern in Fig. 2 is shown in Table 1.
Corresponds to each of the 5 groups, where 1 group =
Milk, 2 groups = pork, 3 groups = vegetables, 4 groups = bread, 5 groups =
It is the image of each cake. In addition, here, the case where the food group is divided by the five-group method is displayed as the display for each food group, but there are several methods for dividing the food group, such as the four-group method or the six-group method, and it is well known that It is not binding on the invention. When the left side of the cross key 4 is pressed from the balance display state for each food group, the display returns to the meal menu name display state diagram 2 (c). If this meal menu is selected, pressing the enter key 5 terminates the selection of the food name.

After the meal menu is determined, the amount is input. At the stage when the meal menu is selected, the total calories when one serving of the food menu is set to 100% is displayed as shown in FIG. 2 (e). If you took half,
Enter 50%. Or, if you know the amount you took, enter the amount instead of the ratio. Since this input can be made by pressing the manual input key 7, the amount is changed using the cross key 4 thereafter. Now, one serving of “beef curry” has been consumed, and the amount of intake is also input by pressing the enter key 5 as it is. When the selection of the consumed meal menu and the input of the amount are completed, the display returns to the display state of FIG. 2A on the initial screen. If you have any other foods
Further, the dish is selected by the same operation and the calorie intake is added. In this way, when all the foods consumed by the meal are input, the total calorie intake is obtained and stored in the memory.

If the consumed food is not registered in the storage section of the menu, it is possible to directly input the consumed calories. In this case, the display is switched by pressing the manual input key 7 in a state where FIG. 2A is displayed, and only the calorie is displayed.

The recall key 8 has a function of calling the previously selected meal menu. If the same menu as that of the previous time is taken, by pressing this recall key 8 in the display state of FIG. 2A, the previous input menu is displayed. This function can be selected with the cross key 4 because not only one item is stored but ten recently entered meal menu items are stored. This saves time and effort for searching the menu from the Japanese syllabary.

In the calorie calculator of the present invention, the display state of the initial screen changes depending on the state of the calorie intake when the power is turned on. This means that when the calorie intake for each food group satisfies the allowable calorie intake, a picture or a number indicating the food group is not displayed. When the display as shown in FIG. 2F is made when the power switch 3 is pressed, the pictures meaning the second and fifth groups have disappeared from the normal initial screen. This indicates that the food group already satisfies the allowable calorie intake for the day. If all food groups satisfy the allowable calorie intake, or do not satisfy the calorie intake of all food groups, but the total calorie intake is satisfied because only one food group is taking too much, Naturally, all the pictures meaning each food group will disappear. If you have not entered the meal menu you ingested at all,
Naturally, there is no food group that satisfies the allowable calorie intake, so that a normal initial screen shown in FIG. 2A is displayed.

When the setting key 9 is pressed once in the display state of the initial screen, the setting mode is set.
Press to enter the nutrition balance display mode. In this mode, the total calorie intake and the calorie intake for each group of the food consumed on the day are displayed. At this time, if the allowable calorie intake calculated from the personal data is assumed to be 100%, the current intake calorie line and the total daily calorie intake are displayed in a graph so that the current calorie intake can be understood. 2 (g). In this figure, the four groups indicate that the calorie intake has been exceeded, indicating that the total calorie intake is 128% of 1680 kcal.

When the setting key 9 is pressed in the nutrition balance display mode, a weekly balance display mode is set. In this mode, the total calorie intake up to one week before that day is displayed in chronological order as shown in FIG. In this case,
The left side is a graph showing 7 days ago, and the right side is a graph showing today.
And expressed in calories. By switching the display, it is also possible to display the calorie intake by group in a specific day up to one week before. In each of these cases, the allowable calorie intake is set to 100%, and the line of the allowable calorie intake for each group and the calorie intake for each group are graphically displayed on the display unit 2 so as to understand the amount of calorie intake at present.

[0023]

According to the calorie calculator of the present invention, when the power is turned on, the display of the picture or the number provided for each food group is changed depending on the calorie intake at that time, so that it is necessary to perform various operations by pressing various keys. Without having a glance, it is possible to grasp the state of intake of the food group at a glance and to have an advice effect of immediately thinking about the contents of the meal thereafter. Therefore, the user is made aware that it is necessary to eat a meal containing a large number of missing food groups, which also helps to easily decide the next meal.

In addition, the calorie calculator of the present invention displays the nutritional balance for each food group in a single meal menu stored in advance in a graph. When reviewing the eaten meal menu, etc., it is possible to grasp the nutritional balance for each meal menu. Therefore, it will help to take a well-balanced nutrition in the future diet or to suppress excessive calorie intake.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an appearance display surface of a calorie calculator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing display contents of a calorie calculator according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1, Calorie calculator 2, Display 3, Power switch 4, Cross key 5, Enter key 6, Return key 7, Manual input key 8, Recall key 9, Setting key

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An input means for inputting personal information and a consumed meal menu, a calculating means for calculating calorie intake based on data from the input means, and a display for displaying a calculation result of the calorie intake by the calculating means. What is claimed is: 1. A calorie calculator having a storage unit in which a nutritional balance included in a plurality of types of meal menus is stored, wherein when the power is turned on, the calorie calculator rises and changes the display state according to the nutritional balance included in the menu taken on that day. 2. An input means for inputting personal information and an ingested meal menu, an arithmetic means for calculating calorie intake based on data from the input means, and a display unit for displaying a calculation result of the calorie intake by the arithmetic means. A calorie calculator having a storage unit in which a nutritional balance included in a plurality of types of meal menus is stored, wherein when a meal menu is selected, a nutrient included in the meal is displayed in a graph for each food group.