Electronic Publishers SLM-110 DIET & NUTRITION GUIDE User's Guide 22 License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE ELECTRONIC REFERENCE. YOUR USE OF THE ELECTRONIC REFERENCE DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE ELECTRONIC REFERENCE AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. ELECTRONIC REFERENCE means the software product and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. Limited Use License All rights in the ELECTRONIC REFERENCE remain the property of FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive licensed to use this ELECTRONIC REFERENCE. You may not make any copies of the ELECTRONIC REFERENCE or of the data stored therein, whether in electronic or print format. Such copying would be in violation of applicable copyright laws. Further, you may not modify, adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, create derivative works of, or in any way reverse engineer the ELECTRONIC REFERENCE. You may not export or reexport, directly or indirectly, the ELECTRONIC REFERENCE without compliance with appropriate governmental regulations. The ELECTRONIC REFERENCE contains Franklin's confidential and propriety information which you agree to take adequate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective until terminated. This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license. 1 Introduction Congratulations! You now own a portable powerful nutrition reference that you can take anywhere. This electronic Diet and Nutrition Guide can help you find the nutritional information of food and record your daily intake with ease. You can look up, count, and adjust calories all within the Diet and Nutrition Guide. With this guide you can · find nutritional information on generic foods, brand name foods, and restaurant foods; · keep a daily total and a weekly average of your calorie, total fat, calories from fat, and sodium intake; · create a list of personal meals to quickly add the nutritional information to your daily totals; · read special nutritional helps on Kitchen Tips for Healthier Cooking, Understanding Calories and Nutrients, and Nutrition Recommendations for Healthier Eating; · and much more. It's easy to do. This User's Guide shows you how. Have fun! 2 Key Guide BACK BRAND CLEAR ENTER FOOD HELP MENU LIST ON/OFF TEXT Returns to previous menu or erases letters. Selects the Brand or Restaurant list. Clears your entry, and goes to the top of the current menu. Selects a menu item, or enters amounts. Selects the Generic Foods list. Shows help messages for the current entry. Shows the Adjust Settings menu. Selects the Personal List. Turns the product on or off. Selects the Nutrition Text menu. Shows a full menu item. Scrolls up or down. Lightens the screen contrast. Darkens the screen contrast. . 3 Getting Started v Turning the Product On The first time you use this product, a brief demonstration appears automatically. You may choose to view the whole demonstration, or stop it at any time. 1. Press 2. Press ON/OFF CLEAR . to stop the demo. Help is Always at Hand You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing HELP . Press to read it. To exit help, press BACK . Changing the Screen Contrast You can change the screen contrast at any list screen by pressing repeatedly to lighten the contrast or repeatedly to darken the contrast. 4 Changing Settings v v Viewing the Tutorial There is a tutorial in the Diet and Nutrition Guide. The tutorial gives a list of the product's keys and their functions. 1. Press 2. Press 3. Press 4. Press . to select Tutorial. to read text. CLEAR when done. MENU ENTER Changing the Font Size You can change the type size to either small or large. With small font selected, you can view three lines of type; with large font you can view two. NOTE: Throughout this Guide, the large font will be used for the illustrations. 1. Press MENU . 2. Highlight Small Font . 3. Press ENTER to view the smaller font size. 4. Press ENTER to return to the larger font size, if desired. 5. Press BACK to return to the previous menu. 5 Changing Settings v v Setting the Shutoff Time The shutoff time is how long the product stays on if you forget to turn it off. 1. Highlight Set Shutoff. 2. Press ENTER . 3. Highlight a time. 4. Press ENTER to select it. 5. Press CLEAR when done. Disabling the Demonstration You probably do not want to view the demonstration every time you turn this product on. Here's how to disable it. 1. Press MENU from any screen. 2. Highlight Disable Demo. 3. Press ENTER to disable it. 4. Press BACK to return to the previous menu. About Auto-Resume This product has an auto-resume feature, that will work if the demo has been turned off. You can turn it off at any time. When you turn it on again, you return to the last screen you viewed. 6 Searching for Generic Foods The Generic Foods menu lists foods that do not have a specific product name. You can find the nutritional information for anything from lettuce to liverwurst. 1. Press FOOD . 2. Type the letters of the food you are looking for, until the word is highlighted (e.g., BREAD). To erase letters press BACK . 3. Press ENTER . 4. Highlight a submenu item if needed (e.g., WHITE). 7 Searching for Generic Foods 5. Press ENTER . 6. Press to read. CLEAR when done. 7. Press Another Way to Search for Food You can also search for food entries by typing the first few letters of the food; then press to move down until the food name you want is highlighted. Viewing Full Menu Items Some menu items are followed by ellipses (...), because they are too long to fit on one line. to view the full menu item. Press . What do "tr " and "-- " mean? If there is only a small amount of a particular nutrient in the food, the guide lists it as tr for trace. If a certain nutritional value has never been calculated, the guide lists it as --. Trace amounts are given in the Understanding Calories and Nutrients section of the Nutrition Text menu. 8 Searching for Restaurants You can also check the nutritional value of food items from national restaurant chains. 1. Press BRAND . 2. Start typing the letters of the desired restaurant (e.g., WENDYS). 3. Press ENTER once restaurant is highlighted. 4. Select a Submenu item if needed (e.g., SINGLE). 5. Select a sub-item if needed (e.g., PLAIN). 6. Press 7. Press CLEAR to read. when done. 9 Comparing Brand Names Now, you no longer have to go to the store to check nutritional values between products. In this next example you will compare peanut butter. 1. Press BRAND . 2. Start typing JIF until it is highlighted. 3. Press ENTER . 4. Highlight CREAMY and press ENTER . 5. Press to read. 6. Press BRAND . You can also press BACK twice to return to the Brand and Restaurant menu where you left. 7. Start typing SKIPPY. 8. Press ENTER . 9. Select Reduced Fat Creamy. 10. Press to read. 11. Press CLEAR when done. 10 Recording Your Nutritional Intake You can also record your daily nutritional intake. By entering all of the food that you consume in a day, you will be able to measure your Calories, Total Fat, Calories from Fat, and Sodium levels. You can use the Generic Foods menu or the Brand or Restaurant menu. For this example we will use the Generic Foods menu to enter a serving of bacon. 1. Press FOOD . 2. Start typing BACON. 3. Press ENTER when Bacon is highlighted. 4. Press ENTER at nutritional value screen. 5. Press Y to add this entry to Today's Total. 6. Press N . If you want to adjust the portion size, see "Adjusting Portions" (on pg 12). to read. 7. Press 8. Press CLEAR when finished. 11 Adjusting Portions Often, the serving size that appears on screen is different than the amount that you consumed. In this example we will adjust the portion from three strips of Bacon to six strips. 1. Press FOOD. 2. Highlight Bacon and press ENTER. 3. Press ENTER at nutritional value screen. 4. Press Y. 5. Press Y to adjust the portion. 6. Type 2 to add two, three-strip portions (i.e. 6 strips) to your daily total. If you consumed 12 slices of bacon, then you 1 _ would type .5 to add a 2, three-strip portion. 7. Press CLEAR when finished. Typing Numbers To type numbers, press the numbered keys (the top row of letter keys). NOTE: If you adjust the portions with a decimal the results may be rounded off. 1 _ 12 Using the Personal List The Personal List menu centers on the Today's Total that was created in the previous section. v v v Viewing Today's Total To view the calories that you have consumed that day, press LIST and select Nutrition Counter. Select Today's Total from the Nutrition Counter menu. You will then see the Calories, Total Fat, Calories From Fat, and Sodium that you have consumed that day. Starting a New Day To begin totaling a new day's nutritional values, select Start New Day from the Nutrition Counter menu. Then press Y . This will clear the daily totals entry and include the values in the weekly average. Viewing Weekly Average Once you have started a new day, you can view your nutritional average for the week by selecting Weekly Average from the Personal List menu. Weekly Average will average the last seven days recorded, not including today's total. If less than seven days were recorded, then only that many days will be averaged. 13 Using the Personal List v v Adding to Total If you eat something that is not on any of the lists, and you know the nutritional values, you may enter the information yourself. Select Enter Total from the Nutrition Counter menu. You will then be able to enter totals for Calories, Fat Total, and Sodium. The guide will automatically calculate the Calories from Fat. Clearing Your List & Totals If you want to clear both your daily total and the weekly average, then highlight Clear Totals and press Y . This will erase all of your totals. 14 Using the Personal Meals Menu If you have meals or recipes that you eat often, you may want to combine them into a personal meal. You can store up to 15 meals depending on the length of their name. You can create a meal using both generic foods and brand names in the meal. Then you can add those meals to your daily total, saving you much time. NOTE: If you create personal meals with shorter names (e.g., mac instead of macaroni), you will be able to store more meals. v Adding a Meal LIST ENTER 1. Press 2. Press , and select Personal Meals. to select Add a Meal. 3. Type a name for this meal. 4. Select Generic or Brand depending on which list you want to choose from. 5. Highlight a food item, and press ENTER . 6. Press Y to add it to the meal. 7. Press Y to adjust the portion, if needed. 8. To enter more food, press Y and repeat steps 4 -7. 15 Using the Personal Meals Menu 9. Press N to end the meal. 10. Enter the number individual servings for this mean, and press ENTER . v v Showing a Meal The purpose of having personal meals is to add those meals to your Daily Totals. 1. Select Show a Meal from the Personal Meals menu. 2. Highlight the desired meal, and press ENTER . 3. Press ENTER again. 4. Press Y to add the meal to today's total. 5. Press Y to adjust the portion. 6. Press CLEAR when finished. Deleting a Meal If you no longer eat a specific meal, then you may want to delete that meal from your list. 1. Select Delete a Meal from the Personal Meals menu. 2. Highlight the meal you wish to delete. 3. Press ENTER . 4. Press CLEAR when finished. 16 Using the Nutrition Text Menu The Nutrition Text Menu has four submenus that describe ways to change your diet and answer many questions you may have about nutrition. v v Nutrition Recommendations The Nutrition Recommendations for Healthy Eating section contains four sections describing healthier ways to live. 1. Press T E X T . 2. Select Nutrition Recommendations for Healthy Eating. 3. Select an item. to read. 4. Press 5. Press BACK to go back. Understanding Calories and Nutrients The Understanding Calories and Nutrients section describes the nutritional values given in this guide. 1. Press T E X T . 2. Select Understanding Calories and Nutrients. 3. Select an item. to read. 4. Press BACK to go back. 5. Press 17 Using the Nutrition Text Menu v v Kitchen Tips for Healthier Cooking The Nutrition Guide also gives several good ideas on how to lower fat, cholesterol, and sodium in your cooking. 1. Press T E X T . 2. Select Kitchen Tips for Healthier Cooking. 3. Select a menu item. 4. Press to read. 5. Press BACK to go back. Twenty Common Nutrition Questions The Nutritional Guide has also included 20 commonly asked questions about nutrition. 1. Press T E X T . 2. Select 20 Most Asked Nutrition Questions. 3. Select a menu item. Remember, if you ...