Healthy lifestyle: A linear programming approach

Kateryna Marchuk

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The main purpose of the thesis is to define the best optimal solution of minimizing cost spend on healthy food and visiting gym or fitness club. The goal was achieved using a linear programming model and simplex method for diet and gym problem. This case consists of two main parts. The theoretical part contains information about food production, prices, diversity of food, the meaning of healthy lifestyle, different types of workout. It maintains the data of undernourishment and overeating, the scarcity of food in all over the world. Furthermore, this part comprises information about the linear programming method and data, which allows you to eat healthy food and visiting gym without spending a huge amount of money on.The practical part includes the understanding of diet and gym problem, constructing the linear programming models using constrains and given variables by a menu of healthy and proper nourishment. The duality problem for diet model was considered, besides, sensitivity report was analysed and recommendations were given. The gym problem was analysed through two models using different constraints, with the aim of comparison the final optimal solution.All the data used in the thesis was collected, analysing and distributed using previous scientific researches, online sources and own computation.

Keywords

health, linear programming, approach lifestyle, fitness, leisure, get fit, gym, stepping, physical exercises, yoga

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 14. 3. 2017

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: Ing. Petr Procházka, MSc Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme / odbor:
Economics Policy and Administration / Business Administration