MyDietAnalysis: A healthy approach to diet analysis

MyDietAnalysis 4.0 offers an accurate, reliable and easy-to-use program for your students' diet analysis needs and for you to track your class as a whole. MyDietAnalysis 3.0 has been developed by the nutrition database experts at ESHA Research, Inc. and tailored for use in college nutrition courses.

MyDietAnalysis 4.0 helps:

Students

create up to three profiles allowing you to analyze your own diet at three distinct points in time, or analyze the diet of friends or family members.
log daily food intake with a database of 20,000 foods including ethnic foods, name-brand fast foods, and convenience foods.
analyze diet and energy expenditure with a wide variety of reports based on your personal food intake and activity level for up to seven days.
submit reports to you right in the program.
begin the diet analysis project right away with an easy-to-use interface.

Instructors

create a course and track students progress on their diet analysis projects.
download students' submitted reports to your computer.

MyDietAnalysis
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Features of MyDietAnalysis 4.0:

How-to videos with quizzes help students set-up profiles, track their diet and activities, and generate reports accurately.
Automatic spelling correction makes finding hard to spell foods easy.
My Class allows instructors to create a class and students to join making turning in and tracking the diet analysis project simple and efficient.

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The ESHA database includes 20,000 foods including name-brand fast foods, convenience foods, and ethnic foods.
Designed to analyze food intakes and activity levels based on each student's personal profile information.
Easy-to-customize database for easy addition of foods.
Tracks the following nutrient categories:
Kcals, Protein, Carbohydrates, Dietary Fiber, Total Fat, Saturated Fat, Monounsaturated Fat, Polyunsaturated Fat, Cholesterol, Vitamin A, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Folate, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorous, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Alcohol, Caffeine, Water, Sugar, Trans fats, Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids, Selenium, Beta-Carotene, Soluble and Insoluble Fiber.
Tracks energy expenditure when students select specific daily activities.
Provides the latest RDA/DRI values based on current 2005 Dietary Guidelines for essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals.
Offers the options of analyzing your diet and energy expenditure by meal, day, or the average of multiple days.

Diet Tracker
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Generates easy-to-read and -analyze reports: Bar Graph, Single Nutrient, Spreadsheet, Calorie and Fat Sources (including Food Exchange), Nutrition Facts Panel, Activity Summary, Calorie Assessment, Dietary Recommendations, MyPyramid, MyFoodList, Comparison, and Energy Balance plus one new report: Meal Assessment.

MyPyramid Report
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Allows you to annotate your reports to provide more detailed information and commentary.
Generate Reports in three formats: HTML, PDF, or Spreadsheet
Prints clear, concise reports for easy grading and simplified comparison of nutrients.
Allows you to email reports to your professor.
Allows you to submit your reports to your professor from within the program.
Provides online help/technical assistance at http://247pearsoned.custhelp.com
Available for individual purchase or packaged at a discount with Pearson Benjamin Cummings majors and non-majors Nutrition titles.

PowerPoint Walkthrough

Pearson Benjamin Cummings offers a step-by-step PowerPoint® walkthrough of the MyDietAnalysis program, showing key screens and explaining the basic features: how to track your daily diet and activities, and how to generate multiple reports.

Download: Getting Started: A PowerPoint Walkthrough of MyDietAnalysis (PPT).