neo dietary analysis is a fresh, new, feature-rich dietary analysis tool due to go live at www.neodietaryanalysis.co.uk in summer 2011.
It has been designed by Zoe Connor, dietitian for dietitians, nutritionists, health and fitness professionals and people from all segments of the general public.
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Use neo to:
- Look up the nutrient content of over 3000 foods
- Count your calories, carbs, protein, iron, calcium or any other macro- and micro- nutrient intake and track your intake over time
- Check you are getting enough of the nutrients you need during training for a marathon or other sports event, pregnancy, breastfeeding, or just for day to day health
- Monitor your weight, waist size, activity levels and set your own nutrition and activity goals and track whether you are meeting them
- Rate your feelings and fullness when eating to become a more intuitive eater
- Check your child is eating well and monitor their growth too
- Connect with a registered dietitian for expert personalised advice
- Analyse recipes and menus
neo is:
- Own and developed by Zoe Connor, a UK dietitian with a wealth of experience in helping children and adults with many different diet-related issues, and a solid background of working in the NHS, privately and overseas
- Based on the most up-to-date UK national food and nutrient data, licensed from the government Office of Public Sector Information, with added USA data
- Designed to be easy-to-use and affordable
Features for health and exercise professionals:
- Analyse and track any number of clients’ diet, activity levels, weight, BMI, blood results, skin-fold measurements and more – customise your own measures
- Allow your clients to enter their own data at home and send it to you for analysis and feedback
- Export, print or email customised professional reports
- Access data that we’ve added for your convenience on specialist foods – medical nutrition products, sports nutrition products, weight loss company products and vitamin and mineral supplements
- Professionally analyse recipes – include weight and nutrient changes and generate GDA and traffic light data
- Let us know what else you need from us and we’ll do our best to help!
How it works
In a nutshell, here’s how neo works:
- Step 1: Enter a food and choose the best match from our database from a dropdown
- Step 2: Enter portion or serving size – using grams, household measures or food photos
- Optionally: Add more foods to create a day’s diet, recipe or menu
- Step 3: Our database does its calculations and shows you full nutrition data for your individual food, day’s diet, menu or recipe.
- Then customise your view and email, export or print your report
- Optionally enter your weight, age and sex to compare your day’s intake to your theoretical requirements
- For intuitive eaters, you have the option of hiding the nutritional data, but instead recording feelings, satiety levels and more around each meal and snack
- Subscribe to save your details and return to track your progress over time
- Options to track your activity levels, body measurements and blood tests – make neo your one-stop-shop for health monitoring
Our story
‘neo’ means new, and neo dietary analysis aims to be just that – a fresh new tool for analysing diets.
Dietary analysis tools are widely used by dietitians to assess dietary intakes. For example a dietitian will often ask a client to fill in a detailed food diary, which they will then enter into a dietary analysis programme to compare their averaged intake against their calculated requirements. Theis might reveal for example if a child is likely to be iron or calcium deficient, or if a patient on a highly specialised diet for a condition such as a metabolic disorder is getting adequate nutrients for health. The source of the food nutrient data is a database maintained by the UK government (McCance and Widdowson Composition of Foods), which is also widely used by nutrition researchers and food companies.
Zoe Connor has a decade of experience working as a dietitian – mostly in the NHS as both a hospital and community dietitian in London and the Midlands. She is currently based in South Warwickshire, and spends her time doing freelance writing work, seeing private patients, and helping out in the NHS as a part-time locum. She specialises in paediatric dietetics, and has particular interests in learning disabilities, autism, allergy, IBS, and intuitive or mindful eating. Zoe is registered with the Health Professions Council, and so abides by their codes of conduct, and is a full member of the British Dietetic Association.
When Zoe started working privately she saw a need for a web-based dietary analysis tool – one which could be used by patients as well as by dietitians, and by other professionals too – from caterers, and schools to personal trainers. One which was based on the full, and most up-to-date set of UK data, and was reliable enough to be trusted by professionals. One which would be accessible from any computer or smartphone. And so began an ambitious plan to develop her own tool.
In 2010, Zoe surveyed over 100 dietitians, exercise professionals and nutritionists to find out what they would most want and need from a new tool. In developing neo, Zoe has aimed to meet all those needs. She is committed to providing a tool that helps dietitians to spend time doing what they do best – spending time with their patients and furthering the field of dietetics, rather than in front of a computer, number crunching.
In making neo available to other professionals and the general public she hopes to help more people make informed choices about their dietary and lifestyle choices, with the option always there of accessing an expert dietitian if frther support is needed.
neo is due to go live in Summer 2011. It has been developed in conjunction with Image+ – a very clever web-development team based in Coventry.
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