Healthy Menu Scheduling for High Blood Pressure Patient with Optimization Method through Integer Programming

Abstract

High blood pressure or hypertension is a global public health issue. It may cause other diseases appear such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and others. The diet problem of high blood pressure patients has always been concerned by the field of operational research. Many previous and recent research have proposed that diet plays an important role in affecting the condition of high blood pressure. A balanced diet will provide essential nutrients for high blood pressure patients that help to control and lower blood pressure. The purpose of this study is to construct a diet menu that meet the nutritional requirements of high blood pressure patient as well as lower the food cost by developing a mathematical model. The model of this study involved 10 type of food groups with 100 variables based on the Malaysian recipes and developed by two programming techniques: linear and integer programming. The findings show that the solution produced by integer programming approach have achieved the constraints and the requirements of food group. The integer programming approach will provide the optimal and effective solutions for the diet problem of high blood pressure patients.