Scientific Health Device for Real-time Monitoring of Percentage Body Fats, Body Mass Index, Ideal Body Weight and Stored Energy with Suggested Meals for Proper Calorie Intake

People nowadays are being more conscious of their health which leads them to monitor their body progress and calorie intake. By monitoring their progress, different health complications are prevented. This also make people be at ease and confident with their own body. This study aims to design a device that can measure the Body Fat Percentage together with the Body Mass Index, Ideal Body Weight, and Total Energy Required of a user that are used to access a person's weight status. This paper also aims to develop a software application that can view a person's progress in terms of anthropometric measurements. With the use of the data gathered by the device, a suggested meal plan for the user is provided to help the user have a healthier lifestyle. The device developed utilized non-invasive electrodes to be placed in the hand and foot of the user. The electrodes transmit bio-electric impedance to the device for computations. The device then sends the results to the smartphone application, Keep and Eat, to present the anthropometric measurements and suggested meal plan of the user. For the accuracy of the Body Fat Percentage, Paired T-Test was used in comparing the results from the Keep and Eat application and the Caliper. The t-statistics, -1.19, was less than the t-critical value of 2.023 and the p-value, 0.2414, was greater than the significance which is 0.05. Null hypothesis was then not rejected by the gotten statistical data which shows that Keep and Eat shows accurate results.