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Personal Nutrition Planner
 

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About This Tool

The Personal Nutrition Planner is designed to provide individualized nutrition information unique to the user's situation.

The tool provides you with:

 
  • Recommended daily amounts you should consume from each food group, based on the USDA's MyPyramid tool

  • Information about nutrients provided by each food group and their functions in the body

  • Your total calorie requirement and Body Mass Index

  • Individualized resources for additional information on specific topics

Recommendations are based on:

 
  • Your age, gender, activity level, ethnicity, risk for chronic disease and current medical conditions

  • Conditions such as lactose intolerance

  • Preferences such as vegetarian or supplement use

 

The output suggestions are different for all of these variables. Thus you will receive highly individualized responses relevant to your specific situation. Note that the output you receive will vary depending on the factors you enter.

References used to create this tool include:

Allaying fears and fallacies about lactose intolerance. J Amer Dietetic Association 1998;98:671-676.

American Dietetic Association www.eatright.org

American Dietetic Association. Sports Nutrition: A Guide for the Professional Working with Active People, 3rd edition. C. Rosenbloom, ed. ADA, Chicago, 2000

American Heart Association www.americanheart.org (for risk factors, prevention of heart disease)

Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. Nutrition During Pregnancy. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1990.

Heaney, RP, et al. Normalizing calcium intake: Projected population effects for body weight. Jrnl of Nutrition 2003; 133: 268S-270S.

International Life Sciences Institute. Present Knowledge in Nutrition, 7th edition. EE Ziegler and LJ Filer, ed. ILSI Press, Washington, D.C. 1990.

Kaiser Permanente health encyclopedia website, http://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/healthency/entrypage.do.

National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Protein and Amino Acids (Macronutrients). Washington DC: National Academies Press, 2002.

National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride. Washington DC: National Academies Press, 1997.

National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and Carotenoids. Washington DC: National Academies Press, 2000.

National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline. Washington DC: National Academies Press, 1998.

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (for info on weight management, risk factors and health consequences of obesity): www.niddk.nih.gov/health/nutrit/nutrit.htm

National Osteoporosis Foundation www.nof.org (for risk factors and prevention recommendations)

Prochaska, James. Changing for Good, Pennsylvania: Avon Books, 1995.

The seventh report of the joint national committee on prevention, detection, evaluation and treatment of high blood pressure. The JCN 7 Report. JAMA 2003;289(19):2560-2572.

Tolerance to the daily ingestion of two cups of milk by individuals claiming lactose intolerance. Amer J Clin Nutr 1997;65:1502-6.

U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dietary guidelines for Americans (6th ed). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Government Printing Office, 2005. http://www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines.

United States Department of Agriculture. Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. MyPyramid, 2005. http://www.mypyramid.gov/index.html

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy people 2010: understanding and improving health. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Government Printing Office, 2000.

Zemel, MB, et al. Dietary calcium and dairy products accelerate weight and fat loss during energy restriction in obese adults. Obesity Research 2004; 12(4): 582-590.

 

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