101 results about "Calorie intake" patented technology

The present invention relates to a treatment of obesity, and in particular to a therapeutic method belonging to a surgical field for obesity wherein it is possible to reduce a calorie intake amount and to lose weight using a gastroscope used for endoscopic examination of the stomach in such a manner that a certain balloon is inserted in the interior of stomach of fat person for thereby decreasing the entire volume of stomach, so that a user feels a earlier fullness during eating food thus decreasing the amount of food intake.

A system and method for tracking longitudinal data for the maintenance and management of health of an individual. The method entails marking numerous groceries, drugs, beverages, etc., with labels that may be read by a scanner or reader embedded in a PDA or cell phone or similar small electronic device, and providing users with a suitable scanner or reader. Users scan the labels of the products they consume during the course of a day, and the system keeps track of calories, fat content, carbohydrate content, etc. of the food consumed, drug content of the drugs consumed, etc. The system can also be operated to track exercise levels and energy expenditure during the day. The system is operable to provide a comparative display of various databased information, such as calorie intake versus calorie expenditure during exercise.

A placemat is disclosed having a scale, a calorie calculator, a memory for storing calorie and other nutritive intake history, and an interface that allows for communication and synchronization with outside computer entities.

The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I); variants or derivatives thereof, or salts or solvates thereof. The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds to control appetite, feeding, food intake, energy expenditure and calorie intake, particularly in the treatment of obesity.

The invention features peptides for the treatment or prevention of obesity, diabetes or co-morbidities of obesity; for reduction of appetite, food intake, calorie intake, body weight, or body weight gain; and for increase of energy expenditure in a subject.

The invention belongs to the field of foods, and particularly relates to nutritive meal replacement powder and a preparation method thereof. The preparation raw materials of the meal replacement powder comprise a protein mixture, a fiber mixture, a plant extract, mixed powder A, a fat type mixture and functional oligosaccharide, wherein the plant extract comprises one or more of a potato extract,a white kidney bean extract and a coffee extract; and the mixed powder A comprises one or more of quinoa powder, chia seed powder, psyllium seed husk powder and konjaku powder. According to the nutritive meal replacement powder provided by the invention, through the synergistic reaction of components, the nutritive meal replacement powder has strong satiety, can restrain appetite, can reduce calorie intake, is comprehensive in nutrients, good in mouth feel and high in universality, has the effect of healthily reducing weight, and has good prospects after being launched into the market.

A weight management system comprises a cash register (CRS), a user client (UC) and a weight management module (WM), coupled via a wide area network (WAN). A user has a personal card (PC) with a code, the code identifying the user to the cash register and being related to a user ID. The cash register system (CRS) is arranged for sending, when the user pays the food item, corresponding food intake information and the user ID to the weight management module (WM). The weight management module (WM) comprises a food information system, a calorie intake component and a calorie balance component. The food information system stores a respective calorie content for a plurality of food items. The calorie intake component is coupled to the food information system and calculates an amount of calories taken by the user based on the received food intake information.

A weight management system comprises a cash register (CRS), a user client (UC) and a weight management module (WM), coupled via a wide area network (WAN). A user has a personal card (PC) with a code, the code identifying the user to the cash register and being related to a user ID. The cash register system (CRS) is arranged for sending, when the user pays the food item, corresponding food intake information and the user ID to the weight management module (WM). The weight management module (WM) comprises a food information system, a calorie intake component and a calorie balance component. The food information system stores a respective calorie content for a plurality of food items. The calorie intake component is coupled to the food information system and calculates an amount of calories taken by the user based on the received food intake information.

Disclosed is a visceral fat estimation apparatus, comprising: an input device: an estimation device; a target calorie intake determination device; a calorie consumption determination device; an allowable calorie intake update device; and a calorie consumption device. According to the present invention the input device enters at least height, body weight and body fat rate of a person to be measured, and the estimation device estimates a visceral fat area based in the input value entered by the input device. Furthermore, the target calorie intake determination device determines a target calorie intake for a day, and the calorie consumption determination device determines a calorie to be consumed due to an exercise for a day. The allowable calorie intake update device updates an allowable calorie intake for a day, and the calorie consumption update device updates a calorie to be consumed due to an exercise for a day.

Devices and methods for substantially reducing the caloric efficiency of the digestive tract by capturing food being digested in the stomach 10 and / or anywhere else in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, absorbing or encapsulating the captured food into multiple capturing members and moving such multiple capturing members containing the ingestible encapsulated food down the GI tract, practically out of reach of the GI absorption organs, thus excluding the entrapped ingredients from being involved in the digestion and\or absorption process. The device is designed for oral delivery. The system can be comprised of liquid, food bars or a capsule system. The capsule system is comprised of an external capsule that dissolves in accordance with a temporal or ph dependent preset, which allows the food intake to be at least partially fluidic. The capsule system is further comprised of a mechanism designed to capture and isolate a portion of the food being digested.

The invention provides a dietary fiber dispersible tablet capable of satisfying the appetite and shortening the detention time of food in intestinal tract, so as to alleviate hunger sense which often occurs when obesity groups carry out weight loss plan. The dietary fiber dispersible tablet comprises the following materials by weight proportions: 1-60% of wheat bran powder, 10-40% of microcrystalline cellulose and konjaku flour. The dietary fiber dispersible tablet adopts the 'water swelling property' of konjaku polysaccharide to cause that a person eats a small amount and can quickly gets a full feeling, thus helping to inhibit excessive calorie intake; and the dietary fiber dispersible tablet combines the 'nonabsorbable property' of wheat bran crude fiber and the microcrystalline cellulose to help gastrointestinal peristalsis, thus causing the secretion of intestinal enzyme to be increased, accelerating the removal of deposits on intestinal wall, causing the deposits to be excreted to the outside of the body as quickly as possible and keeping digestive tract healthy. The dietary fiber dispersible tablet is convenient for taking and eating, can take effect by taking before dinner (full), and can achieve no 'pain' (hunger, diarrhea, weakness caused by great amount of exercises, fatigue and the like) weight loss.

The invention discloses an instant assistant system for fitness. The system includes a motion feature data acquisition unit, a communication unit, a storage unit, a data processing unit, a motion real-time guidance unit and a heat management unit. The motion feature data acquisition unit collects data, such as the heart rate, the body temperature, the blood pressure and the breathing frequency, from a user; the communication unit achieves data exchange with an intelligent terminal through a wireless transmission mode; the storage unit stores the collected data in the intelligent terminal and aserver; the data processing unit completes analysis and decision making based on the collected motion characteristic data of the user; the motion real-time guidance unit provides real-time motion feedback guidance for the user according to the decision-making result. According to the provided instant assistant system for fitness, when the user does fitness exercise, collection, analysis, decisionmaking and guidance of the motion characteristic data can be performed, a body builder can be guided for calorie intake management, the system can scientifically guide the body builder to do body building motion in real time, the fitness experience is improved and the risk of fitness is avoided.

The present invention relates to compounds of formula (1); variants or derivatives thereof, or salts or solvates thereof. The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds to control appetite, feeding, food intake, energy expenditure and calorie intake, particularly in the treatment of obesity.

A physiology and exercise management system based on body weight difference and heartbeat rate uses a common portable electronic device in line with a built-in APP imputation software program to impute a user's basal metabolic rate (BMR) and ideal calorie intake according to a difference value between the user's current body weight and an international standard body mass index (BMI) and then uses a heartbeat rate range to detect the user's calorie consumption situation and a concise balance chart to learn the relation between the user's calorie intake and total calorie consumption values, and increase or decrease of personal body weight, so that a specific user can manage and maintain the best physiological condition for a long term effectively according to the body type and exercise purpose.

A diet management system having a calorie consumption tracking mechanism, a calorie expenditure tracking mechanism, and a portable device, such as a wallet, comprising an area for bills and an area for coins. The area for bills and the area for coins are each divided into separate regions, such as by a divider. The calorie consumption tracking mechanism may utilize bills to track calorie intake, and the calorie expenditure tracking mechanism may utilize coins to track calorie expenditure. The system may include a water intake tracking mechanism to track the amount of water consumed. A user keeps track of the amount of calories consumed, and / or the amount of exercise activity the user engages in, by moving calorie consumption tracking bills and / or calorie expenditure tracking coins from a first region to a counterpart second section at or about the time calories are consumed and / or expended through exercise.

A system for measuring and tracking metabolic rate, physical activity and calorie intake. The metabolic rate is measured with a design that features an adaptive sampling mechanism for accurate breath sample collection, optimized flow rate measurement for minimizing backpressure while maximizing accuracy, humidity regulation and water condensation reduction mechanism for reliable performance, as well as breath temperature measurement for volume and humidity corrections. The system further comprises an improved algorithm for determining physical activity such as related energy expenditure, and a mechanism for tracking changes in food intake over time.

The invention discloses a low-calorie edible plant oil and a preparation method thereof. According to the invention, the saponification value of the oil is between 250mg / g and 400mg / g; and compared with the traditional oil, the calorie of the plant oil disclosed by the invention is reduced by 2%-50%. The preparation method of the low-calorie edible plant oil comprises the following steps: weighing 40%-70% of edible oil; and adding 30%-60% of triacetin in the edible oil and then evenly mixing, and heating to obtain a mixture; adding a reaction accelerating agent monoglyceride and catalyst sodium alcoholate into the mixture for ester exchange reaction; after the reaction is finished, washing, distilling and filtering to obtain the low-calorie edible plant oil. The plant oil comprises all of the edible oils, such as common plant oils, such as soybean oil, colza oil, peanut oil, palm oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, sunflower seed oil, tea seed oil, linseed oil, walnut oil, rice bran oil, acer truncatum oil and corn germ oil, or oil obtained by mixing the common plant oils in a proportion. By eating the low-calorie edible plant oil disclosed by the invention, the calorie intake amount of people can be effectively reduced, thereby reducing the probability of fat and reducing the generation of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

The invention relates to a composite sweetener composition. The compositions of the composite sweetener are APM, Ace-K, sucralose and fillers; and a plurality of fillers such as fructose, lactose, glucose, maltodextrin and so on are taken, and a small amount of anticaking agents can be added to prevent the product from being caked so as to be convenient for storage. Because the effective compositions comprise the APM, the Ace-K and the sucralose, the amount of the fillers is greatly reduced on the premise of equal saccharinity, the calorie intake index, the blood sugar index and the decayed tooth index are effectively reduced. The sweetener adopts a special formula and quickly tastes sweet after eaten; the mouth is filled with a soft and smooth feel; when the sweetener is added into drink for drinking, people can not feel poor after-taste and the time of the sweet taste staying in the mouth is long; and the sweetener has better mouthfeel compared with similar products.

The present invention discloses a data processing-based health management system. The system comprises a data acquisition module, a nutrition statistics module, an exercise statistics module and a result feedback module, wherein the data acquisition module is used for acquiring the body data information of a user, the nutrition statistics module is used for putting the nutrition information of food taken by the user daily into statistics, the exercise statistics module is used for putting the daily exercise consumption information of the user into statistics, and the result feedback module isused for formulating a health management result based on the physical data information of the user, the nutrition information of the food taken by the user daily, and the daily exercise consumption information of the user and feeding back the result to the user. According to the data processing-based health management system of the present invention, the daily calorie consumption condition of theuser is calculated according to a preset consumed calorific value, the daily intake calorific value of the user and a calorie value daily consumed by the user, exercise suggestions can be formulated for the user according to the above daily calorie consumption condition, and therefore, the balance of calorie intake and expenditure of the user can be ensured, and the physical health of the user canbe ensured with the help of exercises, and as a result, the intelligent management of the physical health of the user can be realized.

Disclosed is a calorie management apparatus for calculating and managing a calorie intake, comprising: an input unit; a storage unit; a display unit; and a control unit. According to the present invention said input unit enters the name and the amount of food ingested, and said storage unit stores the name and the calorie per unit amount of each of the foods in corresponding relation, and further stores the category to which each food belongs. The display unit displays the result of calorie intake calculated and other information about the food of which name is entered. Furthermore, said control unit controls calculation of calorie intake, based on the calorie per unit amount of the food stored in said storage unit corresponding to the name of food entered by said input unit and the amount of food also entered by said input unit. If the name of food entered by the input unit is one that represents the category of the food stored in the storage unit, then said control unit causes a list of the foods belonging to that category to be displayed on the display unit so that a user selects and enters the food ingested from among the list of the foods displayed.

In order to promote longevity and a healthy vitality of a pet, the pet's condition is assessed. For a pet that is overweight, a recommended food regimen is determined that takes into account the pet's lifestyle and pet feeding preferences of the pet's owner. The recommended food regimen reduces the daily calorie intake of the pet without significantly reducing the quantity of food consumed by the pet on a daily basis. The owner may select from a plurality of options for satisfying the food regimen. In this way, the owner can have an enhanced pet feeding experience by being able to provide the pet with a variety of different foods that help the pet to lose weight.

The invention discloses a composite sweetener. The compositions by weight percentage of the composite sweetener comprise 2 to 5 percent of aspartame and 95 to 98 percent of fillers. A plurality of fillers such as fructose, lactose, glucose, maltodextrin and so on can be selected in order to obtain different flavors, and a small amount of anticaking agents can be added to prevent the product from being caked so as to be convenient for storage. Because the effective compositions comprise the aspartame, the amount of the sweetener is reduced, the calorie intake index, the blood sugar index and the decayed tooth index are effectively reduced. The sweetener adopts a special formula and quickly tastes sweet after eaten; the mouth is filled with a soft and smooth feel; when the sweetener is added into drink for drinking, people can not feel poor after-taste and the time of the sweet taste staying in the mouth is long; and the sweetener has better mouthfeel compared with similar products.

The invention provides measuring devices for managing the weight of animals and methods of using the measuring devices. In a general aspect, the measuring devices comprise a container having a first side with a cavity and a second opposing side having a cavity that is larger than the cavity of the first side. The first side cavity is sized to hold an amount of food that restricts calorie intake of an animal. The second side cavity is sized to hold an amount of food that provides daily requirement for weight management of an animal.

The invention relates to compositions and methods for controlling food, energy, and calorie intake a combination of a Mulberry leaf extract and CissusQuadrangularis extract or plant powder.

The study is different from other studies in the prior art, and a biological method is used to explore the mechanism of action of AdipoRon on the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Liver cells are used asan experimental subject for construction of an experimental group blocking a P13 / Akt signaling pathway, then the AdipoRon acts, and expression of related carbohydrate genes of the liver cells is analyzed to investigate the cellular mechanism of the AdipoRon on the treatment of the type 2 diabetes. At present, the study is not reported at home and abroad. Almost all methods for treating the type 2diabetes require proper diet and exercise, and produce adverse effects such as hypoglycemia and weight gain, by oral administration of the AdipoRon, excess calorie intake can be safely reduced, and consequence caused by a sedentary lifestyle can be reduced, so that the AdipoRon provides a novel treatment method, a lot of money for purchase of db / db mice and double gene knockout mice can be saved.