Bloom Balance: Calorie Balancing Application With Scientific Validation

Abstract

This paper proposes the research project, called “Bloom Balance” that aims to develop the calorie balancing application. It is an alternative assistance for people who are willing to improve their health by controlling eating habits and doing more exercises. In the application, the calorie counters are separated into the intake-calorie and burned-calorie counters. For the intake-calorie counter, the users can select the consumed food daily from the database of the application, For the burned-calorie, it is calculated from the numbers of walking/running steps worked out daily. The steps are tracked using the accelerometer of the mobile device. This in-app calculation of burned-calorie is carefully validated scientifically in the sport science laboratory. Then, the tracked intake and burned calories can be visualized in days, weeks, or months. The Bloom Balance can provide the users with the health profiles (e.g., BMI, BMR and TDEE) and comes up with the suggested calorie balance plan which includes an expected calorie consumption and expected burnt calorie from the work out. It also daily notifies the users, regarding to their pre-set configuration, in order to encourage them to do more exercises.