Instructions for Using the Diet Analysis Plus Program
1. You will need access to the Diet Analysis Plus Program (DAP) by one of the following methods.
A. Online Access Code - If you purchased the textbook at BC it came with a Online Access Code for the DAP. Follow the directions to access the DAP Program.
B. BC Library Computers - You can use the computers in the BC library (Go to programs, nutrition, diet analysis plus (or ESHA)). You must have an email account through BC (They are free, but have to be set up in advance.) to use the computers. You’ll need a flash drive to save your work. The files do not stay on the BC computers, so if you don’t save the file on a flash drive, you will lose the file!!!
To save your profile, once in the profile from the main screen, choose export file and save to your flash drive… If you need to open the saved file, you will need to be in the DAP program. From the main profile screen select import file and then choose the saved file from your flash drive. If a main profile is not already created, as is the case on the BC computers each day if no student has used the program that day, you will have to create a generic main profile before the option to import file shows up and you can select your file saved on the flash drive.
C. Purchase an instant access code online for $33(see syllabus for a link) or from the BC bookstore for $15 (only 50 codes available)
2. Watch the tutorial on the DAP on how to use the Diet Analysis Plus Program. This is within the program.
3. Under Track Diet, on the calendar, choose the date of the month you recorded your foods and drinks for day 1.
4. Input every food and beverage and the amounts from day 1 of your 3-day diet record.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for days two and three of your diet tracking.
6. Under Track Activity, select each of the same three days on the calendar and input the exercise you did on each of the days you tracked your foods.
7. Once you have all three days worth of food and activity entered, go to Track Reports. Here you will see lots of reports listed. Go to Advanced, Custom Averages.
8. Select the beginning date (day 1 of food from your 3-day diet) and step 2 - select an end date (day 3 of food from your 3-day diet). This will give you an average nutrient intake of the three days. No averages need to be calculated manually.
9. Under number three above (Choose Reports to Average), check the boxes next to the reports needed for each diet analysis assignment. The reports needed are listed at the top of each diet analysis assignment. For example, the carbohydrate diet analysis assignment requires the reports listed below
1. Profile
2. Macronutrient Ranges (Energy nutrient intake and DRI goal ranges compared)
3. Intake vs Goals (Intake and DRI goals compared)
4. MyPyramid Analysis
The screen print above shows these 4 reports selected.
Select print custom reports. This actually generates the requested reports, but doesn’t print them. Once the reports are generated, go to file and “print.” When the printer option shows up, choose Adobe PDF or Microsoft XPS Document Writer. All of the reports will be in one file. Name the file with the name of the assignment. In this example, the file name will be carbohydrate reports. This file of reports must be attached to the diet analysis assignment. Without the reports, the assignment can’t be graded! This will be the only attachment allowed for each assignment.
10. Do NOT submit additional reports or the assignment won’t be graded!
11. To see which reports are needed for future assignments that aren’t posted in Moodle, go to http://www2.bakersfieldcollege.edu/lcarter/assignments.html and look at each of the DAP assignments.
12. You will use the information generated from the 3-day average diet reports in order to complete all of the diet analysis plus assignments.
Submission format:
13. The actual typed assignment (i.e. Carbohydrate and Fiber Intake Diet Analysis assignment) must be typed in the posted Word document assignment, then copied and pasted into Moodle under edit submission for each assignment! Do not just put in the answers without the questions or the assignment will not be graded.
14. The reports must be submitted and attached as described in number 9.