1. Click Start > Programs > Courseware > Kine > Food Processor to start the Food Processor program.
2. In the Advisor Task box, choose to create a Personal Nutrient Profile.
3. Choose New from the File menu.
4. Click the Profile tab.
5. Type your name as the “New Profile Name” and press Enter.
6. Enter your personal information.  After each entry, press Tab to go to the next entry space.  Select an activity level by choosing the category that best describes your level of physical activity.
• Sedentary: Inactive, sometimes under someone else’s care.  Basal Metabolic rate plus 15% for minimal activities.
• Lightly Active: Most professionals, e.g., lawyers, accountants, office workers, teachers, etc.  This category includes 7 hours of sleep and 16 hours of standing, and 1 hour of moderate activity.
• Moderately Active: Most persons in light industry, many farm workers, active students, department store workers, soldiers not in active service, and weekend athletes.
• Very Active: Full-time athletes, dancers, unskilled laborers, army recruits, and individuals who exercise every day.
• Exceptionally Active: Lumberjacks, blacksmiths, construction workers, and marathon runners.
• 24-Hour Activity Detail: Fill in your personal activity schedule.
7. After you have completed your personal data, click OK.  If you want to save to your disk, click Change and select an alternate drive. Click OK, then click Save.  Otherwise, click Save.
8. The screen now shows your personal profile.  This tells you what nutrients you should be getting every day.  Select Print from the File menu and press Enter when the Print dialog box appears. Pick up the printout at the appropriate printer.

HINT: Leave this and all following windows open on the screen.  Do not close any windows after completing them.  They automatically “stack” on top of each other.

1. Choose New from the File menu.
2. Click the Foodlist tab.  Enter a name for your foodlist (i.e., Feb 2-4).
3. The Food Entry screen opens with the cursor in the Item field.  Begin to enter the food from your diet.  From the list of food you ate, type the first food on the list, then press Enter.  A list appears to help you select the best choice for the final entry into the foodlist. Click the food name in the list that is closest to the actual food you ate.  This highlights the food name in blue.  Press Enter, and the new food name should appear at the top of your screen in the Item field.

HINT:  When entering the food that you ate, if you had the same food on all three days (i.e., soft drink, milk), then add up all that you consumed and only enter that item once.  Type all food in singular form (no plurals).

4. Enter the AMOUNT of the food listed.  Amount indicates how many or how much of the unit you ate.  You may use fractions or decimals for fractions of units (0.5 or ½ for one-half).  Press Enter.
5. Select one of the UNITS listed.  Press Enter.
6. When finished entering all the food you ate, select Serving Size from the Foodlist menu. Click Average of ____ days under Divide Foodlist and enter the number of days used in your analysis. For example, enter “3” if you are analyzing three days worth of food.  Skip this step if you are using one day’s worth of food.
7. Select Compare to from the Foodlist menu.  In the COMPARE TO PROFILE RECORD box, scroll down and locate your name.  Click your name and then select Compare.
8. Select Analyses/Reports from the Foodlist menu.  Enter your name in the box marked “Heading”.  Four reports are listed in the AVAILABLE REPORTS window that you wish to view.  Select the “Spreadsheet”, “Sources & Amounts for Single Nutrients”, “Ratios and Percents”, and “Bar Graph” choices. When all four choices are highlighted blue, click View.  This opens all four reports.
9. Select the Window menu and six viewable pages should be listed.  Print the four reports you just opened.
• To print the “Spreadsheet”, “Ratios and Percents”, and “Bar Graph”, select that page from the Window menu. When it opens, select Print from the File menu.  Press Enter when the dialog box appears.
• To print the “Sources and Amounts for Single Nutrients”, select “Single Nutrients” from the Window menu and select Print from the File menu.  Click any nutrient to analyze and then click OK.  Click Print when the dialog box appears.
10. Select Exit from the File menu.  You may save data to your disk by clicking Change and selecting an alternate drive. Click OK, then click Save. 

If you need more assistance, please feel free to ask the CIS Support Staff in any Open Access Lab, or call Help Desk Central at (979) 845-8300.