Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1988-05-02
1990-05-08
Smith, Jerry
Boots, shoes, and leggings
G06F 1542
Patent
active
049243896
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a device for implementing a method for feeding persons, in which method the recommended energy ration, for a given day, to a given person, is dependent upon the energy rations consumed by said person during the preceding day.
The inventive device allows then one to remain in good health thanks to a sound diet, balanced and adapted to one's morphology, and, in some cases, to follow a thinning or fattening diet.
To implement the feeding methods of the above-defined type, which have generally been elaborated by dieteticians, food scales can be found on the market that allow, on the one hand and in a conventional manner, to know the weight of the amount of food put down on the pan, and on the other hand to know the energy supply contributed by this amount of food.
Such a scale includes a mechanical-electrical module delivering an electric signal representative of the weight of the amount of food put down on the pan, and an electronic module capable of converting this signal so that it becomes representative of this amount of food's energy value. As is known, food can be subdivided into a number of categories, the food in one category having essentially the same energy value per mass unit. Taking care of only putting down at the same time on the pan food belonging to the same category, and controlling the electronic module so that it makes the conversion in grams in energy units (Kjoule, Kcalorie commonly called Calorie or Cal.) corresponding to that category, one obtains the energy value of the food.
But such a global evaluation proves inadequate for a good diet hygiene for it does not take into account the balance in the food's composition, nor the fact that the effects of overfeeding the human body differ according to the foods. This latter point is naturally particularly important when one has to recommend a food ration for a given day as a function of the food rations having been consumed during the preceding days.
The object of this invention is to obviate these drawbacks.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To this effect it relates to a device for implementing a method for feeding persons in which, the food being subdivided into a fixed number of categories the energy ration recommended for a given day and for each category to a given person depends on the rations consumed by said person during the preceding days in said category, this device being characterized in that it includes:
a first memory means to memorize each quantity, as anticipated by said person, of food belonging to each of said categories for his/her diet during that day,
a second memory means connected to the outlet of said first memory means, to memorize each quantity, as consumed by said person, of food belonging to each of said categories during at least one of said preceding days.
a first computer means connected to the outlet of said second memory means to determine each quantity of food in each of said categories which is recommended for said person, as well as said energy ration recommended to said person for his/her diet during said day,
a third memory means, connected to the outlet of said first computer means, to memorize said recommended quantities and said recommended energy ration,
a second computer means, connected to the outlet of said first memory means, to determine the energy ration anticipated by said person for his/her diet during said day,
a first comparison means connected to the outlet of said first memory means, to the outlet of said second computer means and to the outlet of said third memory means, to compare each of said anticipated quantities to each said recommended quantity in the same category, and to compare said anticipated energy ration to said recommended energy ration,
a first indicator means, controlled by the outlet of said first comparison means, and
controlling means for writing, in said second memory means, said anticipated and consumed quantities and then writing, in said third memory means, new recommended quantities of food in each of said categor
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Ferry Sonia
Gerbaulet Claude
Kibby Steven G.
Smith Jerry
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