Starting with version 4.0 of our software, we incorporate a unique technology into all of our nutrition software products: the NutriGenie technology. With this technology, the user can specify a daily caloric consumption level and instruct the program to automatically generate menus that are well-balanced and meet the desired caloric requirement.
The task of menu preparation can be quite tedious to health professionals who need to recommend different diets to a large number of people; or to individual users who have to follow certain restrictive diet but don't know what and how much they can eat.
NutriGenie technology removes this difficulty: with a click of a button, a well-balanced menu is freshly created each time. None of the menus are pre-generated, and with a food database of approximately 8,000 items, users have literally millions of nutritious menus to choose from. [The menus generated for the evaluation version are not as varied because of the much smaller sample food database.]
The daily menus generated by NutriGenie, in almost all cases, are exactly at or within a few Calories of the requested caloric level. In addition, with the occasional exceptions in highly restrictive diets (below 1000 Calories/day), the menus generated are well-balanced and conform with the USDA Food Pyramid guidelines.
Characteristics of NutriGenie Menus
The generated menus are intended to show you the large variety of foods that you can eat even when you are on a diet. The menus also illustrate what a well-balanced diet should look like at different caloric intake levels.
In general, you don't have to deprive yourself of any particular food category so long as the amount you eat is appropriate for your optimal caloric consumption target. For example, even a low-calorie diet can include ice cream for dessert although the amount is more likely half a cup instead of a cup of ice cream.
NutriGenie menus are suggestions, not rigid prescriptions. Although we use a standard food database appropriate for the US population, our database also contains a number of food products from other parts of the world. This reflects the diversity of the American population as well as the culinary sophistication of our users. So you will see fruits like kiwi or mango; cheese like Camembert or Gruyere; etc. on our suggested menus. Feel free to substitute them by comparable foods that are readily available in your area.
How to Use NutriGenie Menus for Weight Control
NutriGenie menus are perfectly suited for use with our Weight Control Planner utility. You can use the Planner to determine the caloric intake level that maintains your current weight. If you desire to lose some weight, for example, you can tell NutriGenie to generate several menus at different lower caloric levels. Using these test menus in the Planner, you can find out the caloric intake level that helps you achieve your weight goal at the optimal rate. Once this figure has been obtained, NutriGenie can generate a week's or month's worth of menus for you to review and edit. The printed copies of these menus are a most convenient tool for you to monitor your diet.
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