HEALTHY FOOD FOR HEALTHY LIFE APPLICATION

This study examines on developing an application to reduce the number of
overweight people worldwide. This application will be using Facebook as a platform.
Since Facebook is now at the first ranking of Social networking, hence, developer
believed this application will be useful and helpful to all users especially who are
affected with this illness. By examining the previous studies, reports and journals on the
disease, Author clarifies the process by providing few suggestions on healthy meals to
users who use this application based on the calculated Body Mass Index (BMI).
The time period studied in this dissertation includes the researches on
joumals, studies from previous research papers, statistics on the disease by World Health
Organization (WHO), and the rise and fall of National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey (NHANES) programs. I use two major research strategies: (I) few case studies
and (2) a quantitative analysis of survey data.
Data have been collected from archives journals, newspapers, statistics,
survey and published reports.
In conclusion, there are relevancies in doing Healthy Food for Healthy Life
Facebook application. This is due to the results from the survey that had been done. In
future, development of product will be started and the final objective which is Usability
test will be conducted at the middle stage of development and final stages of
development to ensure users satisfies and meet the Human Computer Interaction
requirement i.e. Consistency, Easy to learn and remember etc.