System for Control and Loss of Fat Weight

• US 20110151414A1
• Filed: 12/10/2010
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Indices Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Indices Incorporated
• Inventors: McCarty, Mark F., Gustin, John C., McCarthy, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US12/964,981
• Publication Number:
  US 20110151414A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/127
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

The present invention provides a single score (or point value) that can be derived for each foodstuff from the glycemic score (or estimate) and/or the insulin score (or estimate) for the foodstuff combined with one or more macronutrient variables for the foodstuff. This single score, which encompasses many qualities of a foodstuff is called the Smart Score. The Smart Score is useful, for example, because it provides a marker for the relative healthfulness of each foodstuff. The present invention also provides that foodstuffs can be ranked according to the Smart Score for each foodstuff, thereby creating an index. This index is called the Smart Index. The Smart Index is useful, for example, for knowing how one foodstuff compares to another in terms of health benefit or adversity.

Claims

1. An index, comprising:

a ranking of foodstuffs wherein the foodstuffs are ranked according to a score for each foodstuff, wherein the score is calculated by an equation that includes a first component which includes one or more of a glycemic score and an insulin score and a second component which includes one or more of a fat score and a protein score.

2. The index of claim 1, wherein the equation further includes a term for a caloric density score.

3. The index of claim 1, wherein the equation includes a glycemic score, a fat score, and a protein score.

4. The index of claim 3, wherein the equation further includes an insulin score.

5. The index of claim 3, wherein the fat score includes one or more of a total fat term, a saturated fat term or a trans fat term.

6. A system for calculating a smart score, comprising:

an outcome calculated using an equation including a first component which includes one or more of a glycemic score and an insulin score and second component which includes one or more of a fat score and a protein score.

7. The smart index score of claim 6, wherein the equation further includes a caloric density score.

8. The smart index score of claim 6, wherein the equation includes a glycemic score, a fat score, and a protein score.

9. The smart index score of claim 8, wherein the equation further includes an insulin score.

10. The smart index score of claim 8, wherein the fat index score includes one or more of a total fat term, a saturated fat term or a trans fat term.

11. A method of ranking a list of foodstuffs, comprising:

calculating a ranking score for each foodstuff and sorting the list of foodstuffs according to the ranking score;

wherein the calculating step is performed according to an equation which includes a first component which includes one or more of a glycemic score and an insulin score and second component which includes one or more of a fat score and a protein score.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the equation further includes a caloric density score.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the equation includes a glycemic score and one or more of a fat score and a protein score.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the equation includes an insulin score.

15. The method of claim 11, the equation includes the fat score, and wherein the fat score includes one or more of a term for total fat, a term for saturated fat or a term for trans fat.