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Method for evaluating and analyzing food choices

  • US 5,412,560 A
  • Filed: 10/20/1992
  • Issued: 05/02/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/27/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer system for evaluating and analyzing a user'"'"'s diet, comprising:

  • (a) a computing device having a memory;

    (b) an input device for entering information regarding the user'"'"'s actual dietary intake into the memory;

    (c) a data base in the memory for storing the information;

    (d) a nutrient base in the memory for storing consensus dietary guidelines relative to nutrients consumed by the user;

    (e) a knowledge base in the memory having rules for manipulating the information in the data base to provide an organized historical record of the user'"'"'s dietary intake and a recommended future diet for the user;

    (f) an application program, for execution in the computing device, for applying the rules in the knowledge base to the information in the data base and the guidelines in the nutrient base and for generating the organized historical record and the recommended future diet;

    (g) a result base in the memory for storage of the organized historical record and the recommended future diet by the application program; and

    (h) means for presenting the contents of the result base to the user, under the direction of the application program;

    (i) the organized historical record including an analysis of the user'"'"'s actual dietary intake categorized according to predictor nutrients; and

    (j) the recommended future diet including a listing of particular foods suggested for consumption by the user.

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