Diet Studio Reference

The Diet Studio Reference provides information on general structure and main features of the application. Use this portion of the documentation to learn user interface elements used to input required data as well as how and where these data are used.

General Description

Whether you follow specific diet or general nutrition recommendations you need control over multiple factors. Diet Studio application is designed to help you manage data that have influence on your diet. The application does not target any specific diet but provides set of tools and features that help with common tasks. Here is how it works. You define diet input parameters such as consumed foods and nutrients you want to control or observe. The application retrieves additional data associated with this input from data source file, performs some calculations and represents it in order to provide information for further decisions.

Diet Studio represents data as set of Views. Each View contains data related to the certain diet aspect. There are five views available at the moment.

• Personal View
  Everyone is unique and diet must take this into account. The Personal View of the application dedicated to this purpose.

• Energy View
  Energy is required to sustain body's various functions. The Energy View of the application reflects energy requirements, composition, etc.

• Ingredients View
  Most of energy and nutrients required for our body we receive from food and drinks. Diet Studio provides Ingredients View to select different type of food from USDA database.

• Nutrient View
  Important part of a diet is nutrients balance. Diet Studio allows selecting set of nutrients to control or observe within Nutrient View

• Diet View
  The view provides Ingredients vs. Nutrients table for evaluation of an ingredient impact on a nutrient in the diet.

Diet Studio has expandable Report extension to store, print or transform results. That opens possibility to create custom reports to satisfy exigent users.

Application Update Checker allows current user stay up to date with new developed features, data updates, etc.

You can use Settings Manager to adjust Diet Studio to your needs. It makes application more flexible, easy to use and suitable for wide audience.