Background

As a beginner to use a nutrition system, firstly, you need to know several things here:

General Function Terms

1.?????? Journal

Food Journal

In the food journal window, you need to add each kind of food you’ve eaten on daily basis. In action, please do the selection from general to specific description of meal, such as if you’ve eaten saute rice with egg, first select rice, then you should have seen the saute rice with egg record from our database, finally you just select it and add to the food journal. The food journal will automatically fulfill the nutrition facts’ part and calculate the total nutrients you’ve got.

Workout Journal

In the workout journal, you need to add each type of sports you’ve made on daily basis. In action, please select the sport name plus the time duration, such as firstly select jogging, secondly 30 minutes, you’ll have done all the user required entries. The workout journal will automatically fulfill the calories you’ve expended totally.

Supplement Journal

In the supplement journal, you need to add each supplement you’ve taken on daily basis. In action, please select the name of supplement and the quantity, such as Vitamin C, 2 pills. Then the record would be added into the supplement journal.

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2.?????? Goals

In the goals window, you could set up your ideal weight, wrist and hip circumstances, daily calories intake constrain, and other medical measurements by entering the number.

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3.?????? Analysis

Statistics

In the statistics window, the last week’s journal total nutrients statistics will be shown by default. You can also select the time period such as last two weeks or last month on your preference.

Charts

It is the graphical view based on statistics you’ve made. Also, charts can be adjusted by selecting the time durations.

Reports

If you want to know how many rice you’ve eaten for last two weeks, you can first select rice, then last two weeks as user entry, then the list of record related to rice and the total amount will be generated in a report on the screen. The report can be adjusted based on your preference.

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Nutrition Terminology

1.??????? Standard academic nutrition formulas, based on which our system doing calculation are:

l??????? BMI (Body Mass Index)

l??????? Human Daily Calories Needs

l??????? Suggested Nutrition Facts Daily Needs

2.??????? Standard academic nutrition rules, based on which our system giving health advices are:

l??????? Food Pyramid

l??????? RDA (recommended dietary allowances)

l??????? Diseases and Medication Food Constraints

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Databases

Our database is created from bellowing reliable data sources:

1.??????? USDA (provided by US government)

2.??????? FEHD (provided by HK government)

3.??????? Major Food Suppliers

4.??????? Restaurants

5.??????? Supermarkets

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Our nutrition system will give nutrition advices from a balancing healthy diet perspective, which is observing comprehensive useful nutrition facts from various kinds of foods, and disputing all the harmful effects by calculating users’ personal health information.