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Chapter: 11th 12th std standard Class Nursing Health Care Hospital Hygiene Higher secondary school College Notes

Computer Applications In Nutrition And Dietetics

Development and use of software package in nutrition education and diet counselling:

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS

 

Development and use of software package in nutrition education and diet counselling:

 

Computers can be used as a tool to teach menu planning and food service management. A computer software package - computer aided learning in dietetics (CALID) was formulated and standardized by Arunmozhi Balaji.

The actual instruction as the user sees is divided into:

 

1.     Master file which stores patient information like age, sex, address, height, weight and patient number and condition.

 

2.     Food site which stores information on food items with their calories, carbohydrates, protein and fat value. The food items are arranged alphabetically under the meal times. The quantity per serving and amount of individual serving will be displayed. Provision for adding and deleting food items is built in

 

3.     The diet counselling system begins with patient personnal information. The counselling program is divided into 3 sections.

 

a)  Analysis of food intake for a day.

 

b)   Summary

 

c)     Printout

 

Analysis of the food intake

 

This assists the subject to sequentially list all the food items at meals and estimate quantities.

 

Summary

 

The summary would give the intake for the day for energy, carbohydrate, protein, fat along with the recommended dietary intake.

 

Printout

 

The printout would give the list of foods to be avoided and recommended along with the quantity per serving.

 

 

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