Windows
IBM-compatible computer
486, 50 Mhz processor or better (Pentium 90 Mhz processor recommended)
16 MB RAM or better
Macintosh
PowerMac (90 Mhz processor or better recommended)
16 MB RAM or better
10 MB of available hard disk space
System 7.5 or newer
640 x 480 x 256 color display (or better)
CD-ROM drive (transfer rate of 300 kbs recommended)
Mouse
*If you do not have a CD-ROM drive the program is available on diskette.
Installation Instructions and How to Start the Program
If your system is Windows '95
If your system is Windows 3.1
If your system is Power Macintosh
Installation Instructions and How to Start the Program
If your system is Windows '95
If your system is Windows 3.1
Welcome to NutriQuestª! We're pleased you have chosen our product as your personal nutrition assessment program. You will soon discover the powerful capabilities of NutriQuest.
When first running the NutriQuest program, you will see a "Splash" screen. Click on the "Continue" button to begin or press the letter C on your keyboard.
TIP: Anytime you see a word with a letter underlined, you can press that letter on your keyboard as a shortcut.
A menu list containing the names of anyone who's saved a personal profile in NutriQuest will appear. If this is the first time the program has been used on your computer, the list will be blank. You must create a profile to use NutriQuest. To create your profile click on the "New" button.
Fill out all the various fields of information. Certain fields are required in order for NutriQuest to calculate personal data for you.
Required fields include:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Sex
- Birth Date
- Height
- Weight
- Activity Level
Very Light = typical seated and standing activities (e.g., driving, keyboarding, cooking, etc.)
Light = leisure walking, restaurant work, housecleaning, child care, golf, etc.
Moderate = walking 3.5 to 4 mph, gardening, cycling, skiing, tennis, dancing, etc.
Heavy = walking 4.5+ mph, stair and hill climbing, active sports such as basketball, mountain climbing, football, soccer, etc.
Performance/Exceptional = performance athletes training in professional or world-class events.
Optional fields include:
- School Name
- Class Name
- Student ID
- Instructor Name
- Class Days
- Class Time
- Profile Date
(This is the starting date for tracking your intake and energy expenditure. You can enter data for up to 120 days beginning with the date entered here.)
TIP: If you want to change the start date, return to the profile screen and edit this field to the new start date.
Your Personal Profile can be password protected. To add a password to your profile, select the "Save" option and you will be prompted as to whether or not you want to password protect your data.
Once a profile has been entered and saved, you will need to "Select" a profile to continue.
The interface for NutriQuest was designed for easy navigation. The navigation bar on the left remains fixed no matter where you are in the program. You shouldn't ever get "lost" in NutriQuest.
The food pyramid icon in the upper left corner behaves as a "home" button. Click on the pyramid whenever you want to clear your desktop of the various window overlays.
Other major button choices on the navigation bar include: Intake Analysis, Energy Expenditure, Weight Management, and Explore Center. More detailed descriptions of these areas are addressed later in this User's Guide. You can enter any of these areas by clicking on the appropriate button. You may also navigate to these areas through the pull-down menu under Activities.
Notice that you have access to the Personal Profile, Glossary, Help, and Exit from the navigation bar, too. A variety of navigation options were created to suit the preferences of various users. For example, you can access the Personal Profile from the button choice on the navigation bar or from the pull-down menu under Activities.
Now that you are acquainted with how to move around NutriQuest, you are ready to begin your journey. Start by building a day's worth of food consumption in Intake Analysis.
When selecting the Intake Analysis button, the program will automatically open up to the current date (as long as the system date on your computer is set properly). You should familiarize yourself with some important features of this area of the program. Notice the three tabs labeled "Your Intake," "Common Foods," and "Reports & Graphs."
Within the "Your Intake" tab you can build your daily food intake. Click on the down arrow next to "Meal" to select breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack. You will then add foods for a given meal or snack.
There are two ways to locate foods in the food database. On the left side of the screen you can click on the down arrow next to "Category," select the appropriate category, and the food items for that category will appear in the window below. You can also locate a food in the database by entering the food or the USDA code in the blank box next to the "Search" button. Then click "Contains," "Starts With," or "Code" (if you've entered the USDA code). For example, if you want to search for orange juice, type orange, click "Contains," and a list containing every food in the database with the word orange in it will appear Ñ including "juice, orange." If you type orange, and click "Starts With," you will get a list of all the foods in the database that are listed in the database beginning with the word orange. So even though you typed orange, "juice, orange" will not be listed because it does not begin with orange.
TIP: You will be more successful in your searches if you type one word, like orange, rather than orange juice.
Once you've found the food you want, highlight it, then click on the > (right arrow) to open the "Amount" dialog box. (You can also add foods to your list by double-clicking on the food.) When the dialog box opens, it will automatically default to a serving size for the food you've chosen; however, you can change this so that it accurately reflects whatever amount you've eaten. When you're done, click OK; the dialog box will close, and the food will be added to your list. Food items that appear in your list on the right are automatically saved to the database. There is no Save button for you to press.
As you begin using NutriQuest more often you may find a pattern in your eating habits. As a time-saving device, you may want to build a list of common foods that you tend to consume every day. Click on the "Common Foods" tab. A drop-down menu displays "Breakfast." Build a list of common foods you tend to consume for breakfast. Don't mistake this list for all possibilities, but rather Ñ what does your typical breakfast meal consist of? Do the same for your lunch, dinner, and snacks by selecting the appropriate meal and then adding the food items to the list.
The "Reports & Graphs" tab contains useful tools to help you analyze your food intake by food item, meal, day, or daily average. There are eight different reports/graphs to select from to view or print out.
Nutrient Summary:
Shows the complete nutrient values.
Calorie Source Pie Chart:
Represents the percentage of calories from carbohydrates, protein, and fat from a specific food, meal, day, or average of days, depending upon the user's selection. The smaller pie chart represents a guideline for healthy individuals.
Fat Source Pie Chart:
Represents the percentage of saturated, monosaturated, and polyunsaturated fat from a specific food, meal, day, or average of days, depending upon the user's selection.
Nutrient Spreadsheet:
Shows the nutrient contribution for each food in a given meal or day. Manipulate the columns of nutrient categories using the click, drag, and drop functions of your mouse.
Food Pyramid:
Shows the nutrient values and servings within each part of the pyramid for a selected day.
Food Label:
Shows in standard government food-label format the actual and RDA nutrient values.
RDA/Adequate Intakes/Other Graph:
Represents the Recommended Dietary Allowance percentage for fifteen nutrients; displays the percentage of Adequate Intake for the nutrient Calcium; and includes those nutrients that do not have an established RDA or Adequate Intake, but for which there are recommended guidelines for maintaining a healthy diet.
RNI Graph:
Shows the Canadian RNI values. Shown as percentages.
After completing your daily intake, you will want to move on to the Energy Expenditure area of the program. Here you will select the types of activities you engaged in for the day to get a picture of how well you balanced your daily caloric intake with your daily caloric expenditure. Click on the Energy Expenditure button from the navigation bar.
The Energy Expenditure screen has two tabs: "Your Activities" and "Regular Activities." The "Your Activities" tab allows you to select activities that you engaged in for the current day. Select from the list of items on the left to add to the window on the right. The "Regular Activities" tab allows you to build a list of routine activities that you engage in every day. This serves as a time-saving mechanism for future days you enter into the program. Just as with the "Common Foods" tab in Intake Analysis, you may want to take a few minutes to build this list.
Your day consists of 1,440 minutes (24 hours) worth of time. Whether you are sleeping, eating, showering, working, or engaging in physical activity, you are expending energy. This is the one area of the program where NutriQuest monitors whether or not you have accounted for all your time. Should you elect to end this section of the program without entering 1,440 minutes of activities, you will be prompted with options for completing your day.
Notice the "progress meter" that provides a visual representation of how your day is being filled. Yellow stands for "Everday Activities" and red stands for "Physical Activities."
Click on the Weight Management button on the navigation bar to open the Weight Management window. Use this window to calculate the total Kcals, or number of weeks needed to reach the selected weight or BMI goals.
In the Explore Center you will find six different options, including recipes, a discussion of various nutritional myths, information about the standard government food label, major food sources, exploring Kcals, and the nutrients of various foods in the foods database, and accessing the NutriQuest home page on the internet.
From any location in the program, access the Glossary for definitions to numerous nutrition-related terms.
From any place in the program, access the Help function for detail on how to execute or use a specific part of the program.
You can exit NutriQuest by either clicking on the Exit button from the navigation bar, clicking on the X button in the upper-right-hand corner of the screen, or from the pull-down menus under File.