HealthyHer

HealthyHer is a app that helps teenagers make healthier food choices! All you need to do is take a picture of your meal, and HealthyHer analyzes the calories, nutrients, and health benefits.

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HealthyHer App

Inspiration

I wanted to create a website that helps teenage girls develop healthy eating habits in a way that's simple and easy. These days, there is such an unhealthy focus on body image. Social media and fast food culture can promote bad eating habits and worsen this problem. According to research done at Tufts University, about 67% of adolescents suffer from poor diet. To combat this, I wanted to create a website that can help teenagers manage their food choices and make healthy decisions in a way that's not overwhelming or stressful.

What it does

HealthyHer uses Gemini API to analyze the meal in the uploaded image and provide the calorie count and advice on how healthy the food is and how many calories it has .

How we built it

I built it using the VS code IDE and used Python programming. I used three libraries: streamlit, google.generativeai, and python-dotenv. Streamlit helps with the creation of the web application, google.generativeai allows to access and implement Google's generative AIs, which in this case is Gemini image API . Python-dotenv helps to manage my environment variables.

Challenges we ran into The main challenge I ran into was trying to figure out a prompt for Gemini in order to produce a result that was not only accurate but also simple and easy to read. Too much information would be a problem, especially for younger users who are not familiar with specific terminology.

Accomplishments that we're proud of I'm proud of creating an app that can help empower teenage girls to make healthy food choices that can help them even later in life.

What we learned While making this project I learned a lot about implementing AI into code and our everyday lives. AI can sound like a confusing and overwhelming thing, but it's surprisingly easy to use.

What's next for HealthyHer Next, I'm thinking of making HealthyHer into a mobile app to reach a wider teen audience especially girls like me who struggle to eat healthy food all the time. I would also like to implement a social aspect into it, where users would be able to share their healthy food choices with other users and encourage their friends to make healthy food choices

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