Family-Personalized Dietary Planning with Temporal Dynamics

arXiv1703.07932MaRDI QIDQ6284707FDOQ6284707

Publication date: 23 March 2017

Abstract: Poor diet and nutrition in the United States has immense financial and health costs, and development of new tools for diet planning could help families better balance their financial and temporal constraints with the quality of their diet and meals. This paper formulates a novel model for dietary planning that incorporates two types of temporal constraints (i.e., dynamics on the perishability of raw ingredients over time, and constraints on the time required to prepare meals) by explicitly incorporating the relationship between raw ingredients and selected food recipes. Our formulation is a diet planning model with integer-valued decision variables, and so we study the problem of designing approximation algorithms (i.e, algorithms with polynomial-time computation and guarantees on the quality of the computed solution) for our dietary model. We develop a deterministic approximation algorithm that is based on a deterministic variant of randomized rounding, and then evaluate our deterministic approximation algorithm with numerical experiments of dietary planning using a database of about 2000 food recipes and 150 raw ingredients.

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