Patent ID: 7072791

Claim:
A pedometer for use with a pregnant woman, comprising: a number-of-activity step acquisition unit; an activity energy consumption calculation unit; a proper energy consumption storage unit; a comparison and assessment unit; and a comparison and assessment result output unit, wherein said number-of-activity step acquisition unit acquires the number of activity steps taken by the pregnant woman, said activity energy consumption calculation unit calculates activity energy consumption based on said number of activity steps acquired, said proper energy consumption storage unit stores a proper energy consumption for the pregnant woman, said comparison and assessment unit compares the activity energy consumption calculated by said activity energy consumption calculation unit with the corresponding proper energy consumption stored in said proper energy consumption storage unit for assessing the activity energy consumption, and said comparison and assessment result output unit outputs the result of comparison and assessment for the activity energy consumption made by said comparison and assessment unit; further comprising a fat deposition related factor acquisition unit for acquiring a factor related to fat deposition of the pregnant woman, and a term-after-pregnancy acquisition unit for acquiring a term that has elapsed after pregnancy, in which said proper energy consumption storage unit stores the proper energy consumption in the form of a proper energy consumption selection table in which the factor related to fat deposition and the term elapsed after pregnancy are listed in corresponding relation.