Personal nutrition control method
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1. A method of monitoring or controlling a nutritional intake of a subject, the method comprising:
- (a) providing a plurality of food packages, said plurality of food packages containing a plurality of different types of foods, each of said plurality of different types of foods having a predetermined and substantially uniform content of at least one nutritional component; and
(b) monitoring or controlling a number of said plurality of food packages consumed by the subject per eating session or per a predetermined time period;
thereby monitoring or controlling the nutritional intake of the subject.
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Abstract
There is provided a method and a system for monitoring or controlling and recording a nutritional intake of a subject comprising providing a plurality of different types of foods packaged to contain a predetermined and substantially uniform content of at least one nutritional component; and monitoring or controlling the number of food packages consumed during a predetermined time period. There is also provided a food unit and an assembly of food units for use in effecting the method and the system.
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1. A method of monitoring or controlling a nutritional intake of a subject, the method comprising:
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(a) providing a plurality of food packages, said plurality of food packages containing a plurality of different types of foods, each of said plurality of different types of foods having a predetermined and substantially uniform content of at least one nutritional component; and
(b) monitoring or controlling a number of said plurality of food packages consumed by the subject per eating session or per a predetermined time period;
thereby monitoring or controlling the nutritional intake of the subject. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A food unit comprising:
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(a) a package;
(b) a type of food packaged in said package and having a predetermined content of at least one nutritional component;
(c) an indication in print on or in said package, said indication indicating;
(i) the predetermined content of said at least one nutritional component; and
(ii) an availability of other food units of a plurality of different types of foods, each of said plurality of different types of foods having said predetermined content of at least one nutritional component. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A food unit comprising:
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(a) a package;
(b) a type of food packaged in said package and having a predetermined content of at least one nutritional component; and
(c) a removably affixable label on or in said package indicating thereon the predetermined content of said at least one nutritional component. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A system for monitoring or controlling a nutritional intake of a subject, the system comprising:
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(a) at least one package;
(b) a type of food packaged in said at least one package and having a predetermined content of at least one nutritional component, said at least one package having therein or thereon information about said predetermined content of said at least one nutritional component; and
(c) a recording device for recording said information about said predetermined content of said at least one nutritional component such that said information on said package may be recorded in said recording device, thereby to monitor or control a nutritional intake of a subject. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. An assembly of food units comprising a plurality of food units, each of said food units comprising:
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(a) a package; and
(b) a different type of food packaged in said package and having a predetermined content of at least one nutritional component, said predetermined content of said at least one nutritional component is substantially uniform for all of said plurality of food units of said assembly of food units. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73)
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