Nutritional optimization method
First Claim
1. A method for proposing nutritional supplementation for a person comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving health and nutritional status information relating to a person;
(b) providing information relating to a plurality of available nutritional supplements, the information comprising contents and cost;
(c) determining economic constraints for the nutritional supplementation of the person;
(d) optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person based on the health and nutritional status information, economic constraints and nutritional supplement information to improve a predicted health status of the person by nutritional supplementation with a plurality of nutritional supplements; and
(e) outputting the proposed nutritional supplementation including amounts of the plurality of nutritional supplements.
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Abstract
A method for proposing and providing nutritional supplementation for a person comprising the steps of receiving personal information, e.g., relating to health and diet, about the person, determining a health model for the person, determining an effect on the health model for at least two nutritional supplements, optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person based on the personal information about the person and effect for the at least two nutritional supplements, through employment of the health model, and outputting a proposed nutritional supplementation including amounts of at least two nutritional supplements. The method may also receive economic considerations, e.g., a budget, for the nutritional supplementation, and further optimize the nutritional supplementation based on the economic considerations.
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41 Claims
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1. A method for proposing nutritional supplementation for a person comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving health and nutritional status information relating to a person; (b) providing information relating to a plurality of available nutritional supplements, the information comprising contents and cost; (c) determining economic constraints for the nutritional supplementation of the person; (d) optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person based on the health and nutritional status information, economic constraints and nutritional supplement information to improve a predicted health status of the person by nutritional supplementation with a plurality of nutritional supplements; and (e) outputting the proposed nutritional supplementation including amounts of the plurality of nutritional supplements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for proposing nutritional supplementation for a person comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving health and nutritional status information relating to a person; (b) providing information relating to a plurality of available nutritional supplements; (c) optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person based on the health and nutritional status information and nutritional supplement information to improve a predicted health status of the person by nutritional supplementation with a plurality of nutritional supplements; (d) outputting the proposed nutritional supplementation including amounts of the plurality of nutritional supplements as a proposal; and (e) transacting a sale of at least one proposed nutritional supplement with the person. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for proposing nutritional supplementation for a person comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving health and nutritional status information relating to a person; (b) providing micronutrient information relating to a plurality of available nutritional supplements; (c) providing at least one optimization procedure for optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person based on the health and nutritional status information and nutritional supplement mironutrient information to improve a predicted health status of the person by nutritional supplementation with a plurality of nutritional supplements; (d) peforming one or more step selected from the group consisting of; (1) selecting one of a plurality of proposed optimization procedures for optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person; and (2) providing feedback from the person relating to the proposed nutritional supplementation and reoptimizing based on the feedback to generate a revised proposed nutritional supplementation; and (e) outputting the proposed nutritional supplementation including amounts of the plurality of nutritional supplements as a proposal. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method for proposing nutritional supplementation for a group of persons, comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving health and nutritional status information relating to a group of persons; (b) providing information relating to a plurality of available nutritional supplements; (c) optimizing a proposed single nutritional supplementation regimen for the group of persons based on the health and nutritional status information and nutritional supplement information to improve a predicted health status of the group of persons by nutritional supplementation with a plurality of nutritional supplements; and (d) outputting the proposed nutritional supplementation including amounts of the plurality of nutritional supplements as a proposal. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30)
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31. A method for proposing nutritional supplementation for a person comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving health and nutritional status information relating to a person; (b) providing information relating to a plurality of available nutritional supplements, said information being obtained by reference to an encoding on a container of a respective nutritional supplement; (c) providing at least one optimization procedure for optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person based on the health and nutritional status information and nutritional supplement information to improve a predicted health status of the person by nutritional supplementation with a plurality of nutritional supplements; (d) performing one or more step selected from the group consisting of; (1) selecting one of a plurality of proposed optimization procedures for optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person; and (2) providing feedback from the person relating to the proposed nutritional supplementation and reoptimizing based on the feedback to generate a revised proposed nutritional supplementation; and (e) outputting the proposed nutritional supplementation including amounts of the plurality of nutritional supplements as a proposal. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A method for proposing nutritional supplementation for a person comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving health and nutritional status information relating to a person; (b) providing information relating to a plurality of available nutritional supplements, said information comprising at least nutritional value and cost of a respective nutritional supplement; (c) optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person based on the health and nutritional status information and nutritional supplement information to improve a predicted health status of the person by nutritional supplementation with a plurality of nutritional supplements; and (d) outputting the proposed nutritional supplementation including amounts of the plurality of nutritional supplements as a proposal. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41)
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