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About:
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the latest USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
Author:
Jim Jozwiak [contact developer]
Homepage:
http://nut.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/nut/nut-13.9.tar.gz
Debian package:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nut-nutrition.html
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freshports.org/misc/nut/
Trove categories:
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Dependencies:
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» Vitality: 0.89% (Rank 264)
» Popularity: 7.07% (Rank 410)
 
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merging databases
by George Y. McLean - Sep 27th 2005 18:47:17
Thanks, Jim, for the great software. I am finding myself wanting to record
meals on installations other than my home machine (e.g. on my laptop while
traveling, on my girlfriend's computer when I'm at her place, and so on.)
I would like to be able to collect meal.db files from various installations
and merge them. Is there a convenient way to do that?
--
George
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Re: merging databases
by Jim Jozwiak - Sep 27th 2005 20:31:09
> I would like to be able to collect meal.db
> files from various installations and
> merge them. Is there a convenient way
> to do that?
If you simply concatenated all the files, keeping the meals in order lifo,
NUT wouldn't know the difference; however, there is no sort in the function
that picks up meal.db so it wouldn't work if the order wasn't right. There
is an additional requirement that the different food.db's have to be
identical--if they are not, you have to erase food.db in order for the
indexes to be remade. Also, the food names are just keys in meal.db, so
that even if you added the same recipe on different installations, it would
probably not map to the same food, and indeed, if the food was missing, the
meal food would be silently dropped. I have thought about this but never
found a solution I liked because all these impediments to making it work
are actually what gives NUT its performance so the program can start up
instantly even with several years' worth of meals. On my trips to the GF's
house, I just wrote everything down on paper...
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Great program!
by Vasco Costa - Sep 17th 2005 17:10:30
I just wanted to thank Jim for this great piece of software. I have used
nut for a couple of years now.
The easy way I can visualize the main nutrients in foods in one screen,
backed with the USDA food database, has helped me change the way I
eat.
The sad truth is, we just do not know what we are eating and what we need.
It took me some short term food deprivation and careful use of supplements
before I could better understand the signals my body was giving me.
Guided with this information and nut, I managed to lose 20 kg and have
since stabilized my weight at the ideal level, while actually increasing my
intake of essential nutrients.
It also made me reconsider consuming several foods I had foolishly
discarded as a kid to never try again. For example, it turns out I actually
like ripe red tomatoes, rich in Vitamin A and C, and I had been stupidly
avoiding them for some silly reason I cannot even remember anymore.
I used to have very dry flaky skin, and something resembling body acne,
which has subsided since I decreased sodium, and increased my Vitamin A and
C intake. I am still in the process of improving my diet, but the positive
results speak for themselves.
Thank you.
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Re: Great program!
by Jim Jozwiak - Sep 17th 2005 17:38:47
Thank you so much for your kind words. You are using NUT the way I do in
order to "debug" your diet and subjective sense of well-being.
Jim
> I just wanted to thank Jim for this
> great piece of software. I have used nut
> for a couple of years now.
>
> The easy way I can visualize the main
> nutrients in foods in one screen, backed
> with the USDA food database, has helped
> me change the way I eat.
>
> Thank you.
>
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nut plans
by Nick - Oct 27th 2004 08:10:08
Jim, are there any plans, or has anyone already developed a web front end
to this in php or cgi?
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Re: nut plans
by Jim Jozwiak - Oct 27th 2004 09:57:54
> Jim, are there any plans, or has anyone
> already developed a web front end to
> this in php or cgi?
I am not planning it, nor am I aware that anyone has done it.
Jim
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Twilight Zone
by Richard Harris - Aug 29th 2004 06:50:14
Consider, if you will, the correlation of a person's concern for
nutrition and that person's proximity to obesity.... It's not
the food, Gomer.
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Re: Twilight Zone
by Jim Jozwiak - Aug 29th 2004 10:21:20
> Consider, if you will, the correlation
> of a person's concern for
> nutrition and that person's proximity to
> obesity.... It's not
> the food, Gomer.
>
NUT was not written primarily to address weight control, although it is my
opinion that an understanding of one's personal nutrition goes a lot
further than "will power" to achieve long-term calorie balance.
Jim Jozwiak
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Re: Twilight Zone
by understudy - Jan 27th 2005 05:18:05
>
> % Consider, if you will, the
> correlation
> % of a person's concern for
> % nutrition and that person's proximity
> to
> % obesity.... It's not
> % the food, Gomer.
> %
>
>
> NUT was not written primarily to address
> weight control, although it is my
> opinion that an understanding of one's
> personal nutrition goes a lot further
> than "will power" to achieve long-term
> calorie balance.
>
> Jim Jozwiak
I am not familiar with the NUT program, however, I do wish to comment on
the "correlation" between nutrition and food.
Actually it is the food, nutrition values of organic food are far superior
to those of the standard supermarket purchase. "We are what we eat."
The fact or Untold Truth is: growth hormones given to the cows, chicken
etc. end up on the (human) food table. Genetically modified grains that are
fed to the animals end up on the human food table, hormones sprayed on the
fruits and vegetables end up on the food table. GM (genetically modified)
grain goes into all NON-organic breads, pasta, cereal, etc. Now add to that
the growth hormones (and huge amounts of anti-biotics) that are then given
to the livestock, humans get a double whammy.
This is just one aspect of "Running on Empty."
I have been studying the probable links between food/nutrition and
illnesses. Along with that the functioning or poor functioning of the
glandular system. I have modified my diet so far as to accomodate my
current lifestyle: regular yogurt daily, one to three meals per week
containing red meat, definately no (junk) snack foods, decreased coffee
consumption and replaced with green tea, purchase organic foods when
available and most importantly greatly decreased the use of sugar.
These simple modifications have allowed me to drop 8 pounds.
Sorry for the extensive comment, just wanted to give an example.
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Re: Twilight Zone
by Jim Jozwiak - Jan 27th 2005 07:33:30
>
> Sorry for the extensive comment, just
> wanted to give an example.
>
I enjoyed your comments and welcome you to run NUT if you wish.
Jim
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Almost what I want
by Mike Charlton - Jan 6th 2004 20:08:30
This program almost does what I want. It's somewhat maddeningly close.
Essentially, it appears to be a good calculator for meal nutrition and it
even keeps track of your nutrition over time. I'm not too keen on the menu
based UI, but I understand this is a style and I can live with it.
If I could have 3 features that would make the program good for me they
would be:
1) An easy way to override the serving suggestions with my own. For
instance, the database uses "1 package" as the serving size for
sugar. I usually measure in cups. It would be nice to be able to override
this without having to fart around with the .txt files.
2) A way to default the measurements to metric. The recipe screen
shows everything in oz, which are meaningless to me.
3) This is the big one -- a way to keep the recipes as recipes, and not
just foods in the database.
#1 and #2 are basically convenience, but I don't think I can use the
program without #3. I'll never remember what I put in each recipe, so I'll
just be retyping it over and over again.
But like I said, the program is *almost* what I want and it does what it
does pretty well
Mike
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Re: Almost what I want
by Jim Jozwiak - Jan 6th 2004 20:24:51
You could make a recipe that presents the sugar in cups rather than the
default serving unit.
I have been meaning to make the program default to grams on all screens
but have not yet got around to it.
Why not use the Customary Meals feature for those recipes in which you
often vary ingredients. This feature would retain the identity of the
individual ingredients.
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Re: Almost what I want
by Mike Charlton - Jan 7th 2004 10:09:42
Hmm... That works pretty well. I have only two complaints, then :-). The
usual menus only allow me 8 character identifiers. It would be nice if it
could be longer (say 80 chars). Also, I can't scale the menu. So if I
have a recipe for muffins that makes 6 muffins, the software will assume
that I've eaten 6 muffins. However, you've inspired me to play with the
program some more. Thanks for the quick response! BTW, if you enter more
than 8 chars in the usual identifier, I think there's a buffer overrun. I
managed to segfault it.
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Re: Almost what I want
by Jim Jozwiak - Jan 7th 2004 13:48:22
Thanks for finding this bug in the Customary Meals function. I will
release a fix as soon as I can.
Perhaps this following idea may be helpful to you. Because you can
subtract foods with NUT, you can modify actual recipes on the fly. For
instance, if you made a recipe for a beef meatloaf, but then actually
cooked the same recipe with ground turkey instead, you can add the beef
recipe to a meal, subtract the beef, and add ground turkey. Also, being
able to subtract foods makes it easy to create a new recipe that is a
modified version of an existing recipe.
Thanks for you interest,
Jim
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