JP2008040778A - Portable nutrition guidance system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that it is difficult to guide many patients in a short time by conventional nutrition guidance systems, while health guidance for prevention of metabolic syndrome is obligated by revised health insurance law on the basis of results of health examinations and demand for nutrition guidance increases. <P>SOLUTION: A portable nutrition guidance system is provided in which one guide individually guides object persons for nutrition by putting a notebook personal computer having a nutrition diagnosis function of reading dish image groups having bar-codes attached thereto and the bar-codes and calculating the nutritive value of a selected dish and printing a calculation result, a bar-code reader, a printer, and the dish image groups in a bag having a capacity of 20000cm<SP>3</SP>and bringing this bag to a place where nutrition guidance will be performed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for instructing a meal carried by an instructor at a meal instruction site.

In recent years, the government policy has been said to reduce medical costs, and for this reason, strengthening guidance after a health check is regarded as important. One of the guidance is meal guidance. However, the subjects who are subjects of the lifestyle-related reserve army have a poor sense of health, and often feel burdened by the time constraints when they receive dietary guidance and the effort to fill out a meal survey form.

On the other hand, for the instructor, the opportunity to instruct the subject to eat increased, but it took about 30 minutes per person with the current questionnaire and recollection method, so it was not possible to instruct many people in a short time .

In addition, interest in health has increased, and demand for meal instruction classes has increased. However, the class was generally held by one instructor vs. a large number of students, and the one-way lecture format from the instructor was the mainstream within a limited time of about 2 hours. For this reason, the students lack a sense of realism, so it does not lead to an actual improvement in the actual eating habits, and often ends only by participation.

There is a tool that uses a food model with an IC tag as a tool for making an individual diagnosis of a student, but it is too large to be used when an instructor moves to a workshop and conducts it alone.
JP-A-9-101946 JP-A-7-308292

In the class of meal guidance, a place of business trip is selected, and a class of a form in which an individual instructor individually performs a meal diagnosis is realized.

In the dietary guidance after the health check, a large number of people can be taught in a short time.

Includes a notebook image, bar code reader, printer, and dish image group with a meal diagnosis function that reads the barcode, reads the barcode, calculates the nutritional value of the selected dish, and prints the results. A portable meal guidance system is provided that allows individual subjects to be given individual meal guidance by placing them in a bag with a product of 20,000 cubic centimeters or less and bringing them to a place where meal instruction is conducted.

In the guidance after the medical examination, the time restriction when the examinee receives the meal guidance is reduced, and the trouble of filling in the meal survey form is eliminated, and the guidance can be smoothly performed.

In the course, you can conduct a participatory class with participants in a form that allows individual instructors to conduct individual meal diagnosis, regardless of location.

Participants can listen to the instructor's story while looking at their meal diagnosis results and discover specific improvement goals for their dietary habits.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a portable meal guidance system and will be described. This portable meal instruction system is a system in which an instructor 1 who provides meal instruction carries a meal diagnosis portable set 2 alone, moves 3 to a place 4 where the meal instruction is performed, and performs the meal instruction.

In FIG. 2, the specific structure at the time of carrying of a meal diagnosis portable set is shown and demonstrated. This meal diagnostic mobile phone set is a group of paper dish images (with a laptop, printer, barcode reader and barcode attached to a bag such as a handbag, a travel bag with a top, an attache case, etc. 10).

FIG. 3 shows a schematic configuration of the meal diagnosis portable set and will be described.
The food image group has about several tens of images, and the subject selects a plurality of food images frequently eaten by the subject for a limited meal from morning, evening, noon, and snacks. An input unit 13 for inputting the image data 9, a dish-specific nutrient amount storage unit 14 that stores the nutrient amount in advance in association with the dish name (number) of the dish image group, and the dish-specific nutrient amount storage unit 14, the intake nutrient amount calculation unit 15 that reads the intake nutrient amount based on the dish image data 9 and calculates the intake nutrient amount of the subject, and the personal information input unit 10 that inputs the physical information and the physical activity level of the subject A dietary intake standard amount storage unit 11 in which physical information and physical activity level and a dietary intake standard amount meaning this are stored in advance, and the body of the subject inputted from the personal information input means The dietary intake standard amount corresponding to the information and the physical activity level is read from the dietary intake standard amount storage unit 11, and the required nutrient amount calculation unit 12 that calculates the amount of nutrients to be consumed by the subject, and the intake nutrient amount calculation unit 15. The meal diagnosis unit 16 that determines the meal content from the nutrient amount of the subject's cooking image data calculated in step 1 and the nutrient amount calculated by the required nutrient amount calculation unit 12, and the result of the meal diagnosis are stored And a meal diagnosis display unit 18 for notifying the result of the meal diagnosis stored in the meal diagnosis storage unit 17.

In FIG. 4, the specific structure at the time of the meal diagnosis implementation of the meal diagnosis portable set mentioned above is shown and demonstrated. This meal diagnosis mobile set uses a notebook computer 7 and has a bar attached to several tens of food image groups 5 that can be selected by the subject and the food image group 5 selected by the subject. From the bar code reader 6 for reading the code information, the keyboard 29 for inputting the physical information and physical activity level of the subject, the memory 20 for storing the above-mentioned nutrient amount by food, the reference amount of meal intake, and the result of the meal diagnosis, for example from the CPU The calculation / judgment processing unit 19 that generates the result of the meal diagnosis and the memory 20 that stores the result of the meal diagnosis obtain the result of the meal diagnosis from the calculation of the required nutrient amount of the subject and the calculation of the intake nutrient amount. A CRT 21 for reading and displaying and a printer 8 for printing out the meal diagnosis result 22 are configured.

FIG. 5 shows an example in the class of the portable meal guidance system shown in FIG. The instructor 1 carries the meal diagnosis portable set 2 alone, moves 3 to the place 23 where the meal instruction class is held, and uses the meal diagnosis portable set for a plurality of students 24 for individual meals. Make a diagnosis. The student 24 can listen to the story of the instructor 1 while looking at the meal diagnosis result 22 of each person, and can find a specific improvement target of his / her eating habits.

FIG. 6 shows an embodiment in the meal guidance after the health check of the portable meal guidance system shown in FIG. Medical checkup is a dietary guidance given to a subject who is determined to require dietary guidance, for example, as a result of a health checkup by group screening or mail. It is something to teach. The instructor carries the meal diagnosis portable set 2 alone and moves 3 to the place 25 of the meal instruction after the health check, and performs an individual meal diagnosis for the examinee 26 using the meal diagnosis portable set 2. After the meal instruction for the examinee 26 is completed, the meal diagnosis time required for one person is shortened in the order of the examinee 27 and the examinee 28, thereby enabling a large number of meal instruction within a limited time.

With reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 5, the process by the meal diagnosis portable set comprised in this way is demonstrated. First, at least one dish image frequently eaten by the subject is selected from the dish image group 5 to which the subject of the meal diagnosis has attached the bar coat, and the dish image data 9 is obtained. (Step S1).

Next, personal information such as the physical information and physical activity level of the subject is input from the keyboard 29 (step S2), and the corresponding food intake standard is read from the food intake standard storage unit based on the input personal information (step S2). S3) The required nutrient amount calculation unit 12 calculates the required nutrient amount required for the subject using a preset mathematical formula (step S4).

The barcode pasted on the dish image data 9 selected in step S1 is input by the barcode reader 6 (step S5), and the corresponding nutrient amount for each dish is read from the dish-specific nutrient amount storage unit 14 (step S6). The ingested nutrient amount calculation unit 15 calculates the ingested nutrient amount using a preset mathematical formula (step S7).

The meal diagnosis unit 16 calculates a ratio of the ingested nutrient amount to the required nutrient amount by a mathematical formula set in advance, and performs a meal diagnosis of the subject (step S8).

When the result of the meal diagnosis, the personal information, and the dish image data 9 are registered in the meal diagnosis storage unit 17 and displayed on the CRT 21 (step S9), whether to print (step S10) and printed (YES) Uses the printer 8 to print the meal diagnosis result 22 including the items as shown in FIG. (Step S11). When not printing (NO), oral meal guidance is performed while watching the CRT with the subject.

It can be used in food education at kindergartens and schools.

A registered dietitian at a hospital can use it for nutritional guidance for patients.

Can be used as a nutritionist's portable tool.

It can be used for dispatching leaders to meal instruction classes.

It is a figure which shows the schematic structure of a portable meal diagnostic system. It is a figure which shows the specific structure at the time of carrying of the meal diagnosis portable set. It is a figure which shows the schematic structure of a meal diagnosis portable set. It is a figure which shows the specific structure at the time of the meal diagnosis implementation of the meal diagnosis portable set shown in (FIG. 2). It is a figure which shows the Example in the class of the portable meal guidance system shown in (FIG. 1). It is a figure which shows the Example in the meal guidance after the medical examination of the portable meal guidance system shown in (FIG. 1). It is a flowchart for demonstrating the meal guidance process by a meal diagnosis portable set. It is a figure which shows an example of a meal diagnosis result.

Explanation of symbols

1 instructor 2 meal diagnosis mobile set 3 move 4 place to provide meal instruction 5 dish image group 6 bar code reader 7 notebook computer 8 printer 9 dish image data 10 personal information input part 11 meal intake standard storage part 12 required nutrient amount calculation Section 13 Input section 14 Food-specific nutrient amount storage section 15 Intake nutrient amount calculation section 16 Meal diagnosis section 17 Meal diagnosis storage section 18 Meal diagnosis display section 19 Calculation / judgment processing section 20 Memory 21 CRT 22 Meal diagnosis result 23 Meal training class Venue 24 Participants 25 Place of meal guidance after health check-up 26 examinees 27 examinees 28 examinees 29 keyboards

Claims (3)

A group of cooking images are arranged, a dish that is frequently eaten by the subject is selected from the group of images, and the physical information and physical activity level of the subject are input in a meal guidance system that performs a meal diagnosis. Personal information input means, physical information and physical activity level and meal intake standard amount storage means correspondingly stored, and the subject's input from the personal information input means A dietary intake standard amount corresponding to physical information and physical activity level is read from the dietary intake standard amount storage means, and a required nutrient amount calculating means for calculating the amount of nutrients to be consumed by the subject, and a dish selected by the subject An input means for inputting image data; a dish-specific nutrient amount storage means for storing dish image data and the nutrient amount meaning of the dish image; The nutrient amount of the dish corresponding to the dish image data input from the above-mentioned nutrient amount storage means for each dish is read out, the intake nutrient amount calculation means for calculating the nutrient amount of the dish image selected by the subject, and the intake nutrient amount calculation Meal diagnosis means for judging the meal content from the nutrient amount of the subject's cooking image calculated by the means and the nutrient amount calculated by the required nutrient amount calculation means, and the result of the meal diagnosis is stored Contents of a dish image group on a paper medium pasted with a printer, a barcode reader, and a barcode, together with a notebook computer having a meal diagnosis storage means and a meal diagnosis display means for notifying the meal content obtained by the meal diagnosis means Bring the meal diagnostic mobile phone set in a bag with a product of 20,000 cubic centimeters or less by yourself to the place where the instructor conducts the meal instruction. Portable meal guidance system which is characterized in that the meal diagnosis Te.   2. The portable meal instruction system according to claim 1, wherein the place where the instructor performs meal instruction is a meal instruction class. 2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the place where the instructor conducts the meal instruction is a place where the individual meal instruction is performed for a person who is determined to need the meal instruction as a result of a health check. Meal guidance system

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