HEALTH CALCULATOR
Submitted by:
Sheikh Hady - 6/18/2010 10:46:29 PMNo doubt that health is very important to human. Kidney, lungs, blood, heart, skin and every human part have risk to get a disease, and one of the main factors for human chronic disease is by food they eat. Malaysia is like the heaven of food, name it, we have all type of food from east to west. But we also among the country that have many disease that caused by food.
Why don't we put an application inside YTL 4g Network that more concern on health aspect. Create a database that showing the ingredients of most Malaysian foods. For example, how many energy, cholesterol, fat and other data for a plate of fried mee. How many sugar that an adult can take for a day. Most of this database is already in the doctor database or inside encyclopedia, just use it and apply it for a new application. The database can be found in many method , internet, healthy food practioneer , medical text, research that have been done by medical professional.
Don't think that all people read the sign or labels on the food packing, not all of Malaysian people know about the meaning of the ingredient at the package labels. And what about other food that we eat and don't have the table that showing the ingredient? Ignore and just eat the nice and delicious food? By right, we should also know about it, why don't we create an application that can teach Malaysian people to have more understanding on what they swallow in their mouth daily.
Also we can include a chart or bar or index that showing what do we take daily, it is simple. The bar start with 0% in the morning, it start increase when you key in what did you take for breakfast, then to lunch until the food or drinks you take before sleep. It can determine which is the most things you take daily, wether it is good, less benefit or bad for your health. It can diagnose what is the result for today, wether you have follow the rules or not.
We can also included the water section where the ideal water we should take daily, wether we have reach the minimum or not because water is important for our body digesting system, with less water, it can expose our body to other sickness.
The first step is to know what the ingredient is, next step is how to control it. The second phase is to get know the right way to have better life and health. Many people usually don't go to seek a medical advise when they feel not well, they would take it easy and think it is normal sickness, but what that they don't know, the minor symptom could lead to a high risk disease such as kidney failure, high blood, over sugar in the blood or any else major disease. Just name it, all human part is expose to any danger if no earlier prevention was taken. That's why I suggest an application like this to be added in our technology, it was like an advise from the doctor in our cell phone that we can bring anywhere, use anytime and unlimited. It is like a personal touch from the doctor, it is also can be use as an alarm when we should seek a professional medical advise from a doctor. What is the right medicine we should take for a sickness that we are facing. How to control sugar in our body, how to burn fat, how and why. That is most common question that we should seriously consider.
We can also include food fact, like
1.Carrots really can help you see in the dark (Vitamin A is known to prevent "night blindness," and carrots are loaded with Vitamin A).
2.There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water
3.Sometimes frozen fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than fresh! The longer that fruits or vegetables sit around waiting to be sold or eaten, the more nutrients they lose. But fruits and vegetables grown for freezing are usually frozen right after they're picked. Therefore, they have less time to lose their nutrients
4.Have a tomato with your burger - When a source of Vitamin C (orange, lemon, grapefruit, strawberry, tomato, potato, etc.) is eaten with meat or cooked dry beans, the body makes better use of the iron in the protein food.
5.It takes 3500 calories to make a pound of fat - So, as long as you're active, and burning of calories, calories shouldn't have too much of a chance to turn into fat
In this modern era, we know that technology is everything, with technology we can conquer the world, but don't forget with technology also we are getting lazy and weak, we don't move, we don't jogging anymore. For example, kid don't go to park anymore, they rather play Playstation at home while the teenagers dont interest in sport, they would really like to hang with friend at 'Mamak' stall and enjoyed Wifi. This has nothing wrong, that is the way we should enjoy technology, but try to imagine what we can do with this application in this technology? We get two benefits at the same time, we can explore and enjoy the technology and maintain our healthier life at the same moment.
Im not saying the application that is already out there is not good, but I would really like to see an application like this in the technology that YTL is implement right now. Use for benefit for all Malaysian. The number of patient can be reduce and we can save human life, what is more wonderful rather than enjoy technology and get the benefits of a healthier lifestyle?
I believe this is a very simple application that can be apply into YTL technology, but yet it is the most useful innovation and creation. There is still millions of tips and health fact that many of Malaysian people still don't know. Let's educated them!!!