Patent ID: 6356940
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: G06Q,G16H,Y10S

Abstract:
A nutritional planning system operational on a host server connected to a computer network, the computer network providing communication between the host server and a plurality of remote individual users, the nutritional planning system comprising:a nutrition database in communication with the host server, the nutrition database comprising dietary components of a plurality of food types; a user diet database in communication with the remote users and in communication with the host server, the user diet database receiving dietary information from the remote users, the dietary information comprising foods consumed by the remote users; a recommended diet database in communication with the host server, the recommended diet database comprising recommended dietary information; the host server comprising: a nutritional analysis program for determining a nutritional composition of the dietary information of the remote users by retrieving the dietary components of food types within the nutrition database which correspond with the foods consumed by the remote users; means for automatically communicating through the computer network to each of the remote users the nutritional composition of the dietary information of the remote user; a nutritional suggestion program for generating suggested modifications of the remote user's diet to improve a dietary composition of each remote user's diet based upon the dietary information of the remote user and the recommended dietary information stored within the recommended diet database; and means for automatically communicating the suggested modifications of the remote user's diet through the computer network to the remote users.