Instructions for Using the Diet Analysis Plus Program

1. You will need access to the Diet Analysis Plus Program by one of the following methods.

A. CD - Install the Diet Analysis Plus Program on your computer if you purchased a book with the CD.

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!

To save the file/profile, after you create a profile, go to the main profile page, select export profile. It will come up save file, select okay. Then choose your flash drive and name the file.

To view the saved profile, you must be in the program. Go to main profile, import profile, browse, select flash drive, then select your saved profile.

2. Watch the tutorial on how to use the Diet Analysis Plus Program.

3. Under track diet, on the calendar, choose the date of the month you recorded your food and drink 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.

6. Under track activity, select each of the same three days on the calendar and input the exercise you did on each of those days.

7. Once you have all three days worth of food and activity entered, go to view reports. Here you will see lots of reports listed on the left side of the page. Click on each one of those reports to view the information the computer tabulated based on your diet intake.

8. You will use the information generated from this 3-day diet in order to complete all of the diet analysis plus assignments.

Submission format:

9. The actual assignment (i.e. Carbohydrate and Fiber Intake Diet Analysis) must be submitted. Do not just put answers on a blank piece of paper or it won’t be graded.

10. The required reports, and no more, must be submitted.

A. At the top of the DAP program, click on print reports.

B. Choose custom average reports.

C. 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.

D. Uncheck the following: source analysis, intake spreadsheet and exchanges spreadsheet and click on print custom average.