NUT nutrition software
Copyright (C) 1996-2014 by Jim Jozwiak.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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OVERVIEW
NUT allows you to record what you eat and analyze your meals for
nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 26.
This database of food composition tables contains values for
calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, total fat, etc., and
includes all the nutrient data in the USDA database, including the
Omega-6 and Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Nutrient levels are
expressed as a percentage of the DV or Daily Value, the familiar
standard of food labeling in the United States. The essential fatty
acids, Omega-6 and Omega-3, are not currently mentioned in these
standards, and a reference value has been supplied.
You may search this list of foods and view nutrient values for
different serving sizes; you may also rank foods in order of level
of a particular nutrient. You may change the daily calorie level to
correspond to your personal metabolism, and the levels for fat,
carbohydrates, fiber, and protein are automatically adjusted. You
may customize the ratios of carbohydrates to protein to fat to suit
your personal regimen. You may add your own recipes to the database,
by creating them from the foods in the database. You can also add
foods from the information on commercial food labels. The program is
completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
INSTALLATION
Note: NUT can modify your prior release database files automatically. Just
follow the steps below and make sure that the Makefile points to your
current ".nutdb". NUT will read in your recipes and match your meal
records to a changed food database, or else make other changes the new
version requires; however, NUT may be incapable of preserving your
former personal options or retaining meal foods that do not exist in a
changed USDA database.
1) Untar the nut archive:
tar xvzf nut-19.1.gz
cd nut-19.1/
2) If you want a graphical user interface, install fltk-1.3.2 or later from
the fltk-1.3.x branch.
The graphical user interface executable will be called "Nut" and the
console program executable will be called "nut" when they are installed.
FLTK only has to be installed to compile the NUT graphical user interface,
not to run it.
3) Issue the command "make install" as root. You can always issue the
command "make clean" before the "make install" if you want to be
absolutely sure everything will be freshly recompiled.
4) When you run NUT the very first time, it will take a few extra seconds to
come up because it is reading the file "sr26.nut", and creating the files
"food.db", "meal.db", "theusual.db", and "OPTIONS.txt". The USDA-format
files "FOOD_DES.txt", "NUT_DATA.txt", and "WEIGHT.txt" contain the
data for recipes and edits to the database. The USDA-format group in the
directory defined as FOODDIR are for installation-wide changes and the
changes that come in the NUT distribution. The group in the user's
database directory are personal changes to the database. Both
groups will be read only if there is no "food.db" when the program
starts, unless you are upgrading to a release which rebuilds the food
database and re-indexes the meals to it.
The source for the food database is:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2013. USDA
National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 26. Nutrient Data
Laboratory Home Page, http://www.ars.usda.gov/ba/bhnrc/ndl
When not specified, all PUFAs except 18:2, 20:3, 20:4, and 22:4 are
considered to be omega-3; the database does not yet distinguish between
omega-6 and omega-3 for many foods. The omega-6 and omega-3 totals may be
overstated for foods which contain significant trans- fats, such as those
which contain hydrogenated vegetable oils.
Note: There are no DVs for the Omega-6 and Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty
acids. Reference values shown may be more or less than your personal
needs. Under the Personal Options menu item are sub-items to change the
way the program computes essential fatty acid values.
Jim Jozwiak
http://nut.sourceforge.net/
av832@lafn.org, jozwiak@gmail.com
