Diet Generator Based on World Health Organization Recommendations

Scientific advances in the last years have helped to clarify the role of diet in the prevention of premature mortality resulting from noncommunicable diseases. In particular chronic diseases, thus like obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension between others have become a significant cause of premature death. The World Health Organization (WHO), have a analyzed this problem and elaborated some dietary guidelines to follow, specifically, in WHO technical report #916, establish some ranges for population nutrient intake goals. That consider fats, carbohydrates and proteins as main parameters, but also specify limits for Cholesterol, sodium, fruits and vegetables, and fibre. This paper focuses in automatic diet generation following the rules established in this report, in order to do this a genetic algorithm is developed.