Dietary Calculations and DietSoft

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1 Dietary Calculations and DietSoft What is Dietary Calculation? Dietary calculation basically involves Calculating and Measuring Quantity of Food Items and the Quantity of various Nutrients present in those Food Items (also known as Nutritive Values of Food Items). Since we are dealing with measurements, the first and the foremost thing that we need to know are the Manners and Units in which these measurements are carried out. Measurement of Food Items is done in following manner. a) In Weight (For e.g. Grams (most common), Kilograms, Ounce, Pound etc.) b) In Volume (For e.g. milliliter (most common), Liter, Fluid Ounce, Teaspoon, Tablespoon, Cup etc.) c) In Count (For e.g. 1 Apple, 2 Oranges, 1 Dozen eggs) It is possible to convert from Weight to Volume or from Volume to Weight if Density of the food item is known. It is possible to convert from Count to Weight if Weight of the Unit Quantity is known. Measurement of Nutrients is done in following Units, depending on the nutrient involved. a) Grams b) Milligrams c) Micrograms d) Parts Per Million e) Kilocalories (For Energy only) Typically, when quantity of nutrients is mentioned anywhere (for e.g in packet or container of the packaged food item or any other publication), it is given for per 100 grams of food items (for all solid food items and some liquid food items) OR for per 100 ml of food items (for liquid food items). This quantity is known as the Nutritive Value of that nutrient in the specified food item. Once you understand the explanations given above, we can actually move on to understand how DietSoft functions.

2 How DietSoft can help in Dietary Calculations? DietSoft can help in the following 4 areas of Dietary Calculations: 1) Maintaining and managing catalogs/directories of the following: a) Nutrients b) Food Items c) Nutritive Values d) Weight Measures of Unit Quantity of Food Item e) Density of Food Items f) Units in which the Food Items can be measured 2) Recipe creation 3) Intake analysis (24 hour recalls) 4) Diet Chart creation and maintenance Let s look how these features are implemented in DietSoft and how they can be used one by one. Important Note: Please use Up and Down Arrow Keys to scroll through or navigate through any dropdown list displayed and press Enter to select the highlighted item. Maintaining and managing catalogs Nutrients DietSoft has a built in/system defined catalog of 86 Nutrients classified under following Nutrient Groups. 1) PROXIMATE PRINCIPLES 2) NITROGEN AND AMINO ACIDS 3) VITAMINS 4) MINERALS AND TRACE ELEMENTS 5) SATURATED FAT/FATTY ACIDS 6) MONO-UNSATURATED FAT/FATTY ACIDS 7) POLY-UNSATURATED FAT/FATTY ACIDS 8) OTHER CARBOHYDRATES 9) OTHER FATS 10) NON NUTRIENTS 11) OTHER NUTRIENTS

3 To view/access the list of all built in or custom added nutrients please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Nutrients-> Nutrient List For adding/editing custom nutrients please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Nutrients-> Manage Nutrients

4 Food Items DietSoft has a built in/system defined catalog of all National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) defined raw food items as well as NIN Recipes. We are continuously updating our database with commonly available packaged food items To view/access the list of all built in or custom added food items in please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Food Items-> Food Item List

5 To add new food items please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Food Items-> Add Food Item To edit information of a custom added food item please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Food Items-> Edit Food Item

6 Nutritive Values To Add/Edit and View nutritive values food items please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Food Items-> View/Edit Nutritive Values This form displays all the nutritive values associated with a food item. To add a nutritive value/nutrient click on the Add Nutrient/Nutritive value button. More than one nutritive value can be added for a nutrient and one value per nutrient can be set as default. Every nutritive value added must specify a unique information source. Nutritive values can be added for 100g of 100ml of food items.

7 Density of Food Items To Add/Edit and View Density of food items please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Food Items-> View/Edit Density This form displays all the density values associated with a food item. To add a density value click on the Add New Density Value button. More than one density can be added for a food item and one value can be set as default. Every density value entered must specify a unique Information Source/Condition.

8 Weight Measures of Unit Quantity of Food Item To Add/Edit and View Weight Measures of Unit Quantity of food items please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Food Items-> View/Edit Weight This form displays all the weight values associated with unit quantity of a food item. To add a weight value click on the Add New Weight Value button. More than one weight can be added for a food item and one value can be set as default. Every weight value entered must specify a unique Information Source/Condition.

9 Units in which the Food Items can be measured To Add/Edit and View Units in which the Food Items can be measured please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Food Items-> View/Edit Measure The system defines many Weight, Volume and Count Measures. Custom Weight, Volume and Count Measures can be added through this form.

10 To add food items in bulk please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Food Items-> Import Food Item Using this feature all the information of one or more food items (Name, Unit Weight,Density and Nutritive Values) can be added in a single step.

11 Recipe Creation To Create New Recipe please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Recipe-> Create New Recipe To create a recipe you select the ingredient food item from the drop down list, enter a quantity and click on Add To List. Please use Up and Down Arrow Keys to scroll through or navigate through any dropdown list displayed and press Enter to select the highlighted item.

12 Subsequently you can add any number of ingredients to the recipe in the same manner. As the ingredients are added the nutritive value of the recipes can be checked both on the basis of Individual Ingredient basis and Food Group wise. By default the screen shows only the energy value. Other nutrients can be selected from the list. You can also press the Clear button to display nutritive value for all nutrients. Once all the ingredients have been added you can save the recipe by entering its name and group. The weight of the ingredients gets automatically calculated. The cooked weight of the recipe is by default set to the weight of ingredients. It can be set to a value more or less than the weight of ingredients. The cooked volume of the food items is set to the sum of volume of all the ingredients (if present). The recipe can be then saved. When a recipe is saved its nutritive value is saved on the basis of Weight of Ingredients, Cooked Weight, and Cooked Volume. One of them can be set as default.

13 To view the list of recipes created/present in the system please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Recipe-> Recipe List Click on Edit Recipe Button to edit the recipe Click on Create New Recipe Button to create a new recipe based on existing recipes ingredients. Click on Export Recipe Button to Export the Ingredient and nutritive values of recipe to an excel file.

14 To Edit a custom created recipe please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Recipe-> Edit Recipe To republish nutritive value of all recipes please use the following menu item in DietSoft Directory Data -> Recipe-> Republish All Recipes Republishing of a recipe is required when nutritive value of ingredients of the recipe gets changed.

15 To search recipes based on ingredients use Directory Data -> Recipe-> Recipe Search To Export all recipes as a single zip file containing individual recipes in an excel file use Directory Data -> Recipe-> Export All Recipes

16 Intake analysis (24 hour recalls) To record intake details of a subject, please click on the following menu option Intake Analysis-> Intake Calculator To record the Intake, Select the food Items take by the patient/subject, enter the quantity, select the meal type and click on Add To List. You can add any no. of Intakes for a record.once you enter all the intake details, You can enter details of the Patient/Subject and Save the intake record.

17 To view the list of all intakes please use the following menu item in DietSoft Intake Analysis-> Intake List Click on Edit Intake Detail Button to View/Edit the Intake details of the corresponding Intake Record. Click on Export Intake Detail Button to Export the Intake Details of corresponding record to an excel file.

18 To Edit an Intake Detail use the following menu item in DietSoft Intake Analysis-> Edit Intake Detail To search an Intake record based on Intake food Item please use the following menu item Intake Analysis -> Intake Search

19 To view summary of nutrient intake for all intakes of a particular project please use the following menu item Intake Analysis-> Intake Summary->By Nutrient To view summary of food group intakes for all intakes of a particular project please use the following menu item Intake Analysis-> Intake Summary->By Food Group

20 To Export all intake details of a particular project as a single zip file containing individual intakes in excel files use Intake Analysis-> Export All Intakes To republish all intake records Intake Analysis-> Republish Intake Records

21 Intake records must be republished when the nutritive values of the food items pertaining to the intake records are changed. Diet Chart creation and maintenance To create a new Diet Chart, please click on the following menu option Diet Chart-> Create Diet Chart Creating Diet Chart is similar to that of entering an input record. Once all the input food items are entered, enter the Diet Chart name and save the Diet Chart.

22 To view a list of all Diet Charts created, please use the following menu option Diet Chart-> Diet Chart List Click on Edit Diet Chart Button to View/Edit the details of the corresponding Diet Chart. Click on Export Diet Chart Button to Export the details of corresponding diet chart to an excel file.

23 To Edit a Diet Chart Please use the following menu option Diet Chart-> Edit Diet Chart To search an Diet Chart based on food Item present in it please use the following menu item Diet Chart-> Diet Chart Search

24 To Export all Diet Charts as a single zip file containing individual Diet Charts in excel files use Diet Chart-> Export All Diet Charts