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INTRODUCTION TO FREE NUTRITION WIZARD/QUICK-TEST
+++ WELCOME TO NUTRITION WIZARD/QT
++ Where to Find Information
This document (file MANUAL.TXT) will get you started:
Installation information
How to start Nutrition Wizard/QT
How to use the help system
Basic instructions
The remaining documentation for Nutrition Wizard/QT is available via
the Nutrition Wizard/QT help system while you use the program.
Also supplied with this program are the following text files:
BROCHURE.TXT -- Exciting information about Nutrition Wizard Deluxe
QUICK.TXT -- Quick summaries of how to use Nutrition Wizard/QT
If you want or need more detailed printed information, we suggest you
upgrade to the complete Nutrition Wizard package which includes many
more features and capabilities plus a 200 page nutrition, health and
user guide.
++ What is Nutrition Wizard/QT?
Nutrition Wizard/Quick-Test is a free introduction to the ease and
value of computer-assisted nutrition-improvement using the Nutrition
Wizard family of products. It is a simplified version of full-featured
Nutrition Wizard Deluxe. You can obtain Nutrition Wizard Deluxe
(version 2.5) for only $29.95. See the information file BROCHURE.TXT
or the section in the Information menu of Nutrition Wizard/QT.
++ What Is Nutrition Wizard?
Eating right is essential to good health. A good diet makes you
healthier, feel better and live longer. Many, perhaps most, health
problems, including heart disease and cancer, are diet-related.
Experts believe a good diet can add four years to your lifespan.
Unfortunately, most of us still don't eat very well. For example,
nearly all of us eat way too much fat, making us susceptible to heart
disease. Fewer than 1/2 of U.S. women get enough calcium making them
targets for brittle bones. Lack of fiber is linked to colon cancer.
The list is almost endless.
Nutrition Wizard makes watching what you eat easy, enlightening and
fun. It's the high-quality nutrition improvement software that
provides long-lasting health insurance for you and your entire family.
It helps you and your entire family eat better, easily. Nutrition
Wizard lets you improve your eating patterns at your own pace,
without having to understand nutrition, read a food label or figure out
food groups.
Nutrition Wizard makes it easy to find out the nutrition in the
food you eat:
1. Tell Nutrition Wizard what you ate by selecting food items from
a menu. An entire meal takes less than a minute.
2. Nutrition Wizard immediately shows the nutrition on the screen
in plain English and in an easy-to-read "gas gauge" form.
3. Get a complete report including a personal evaluation and comments.
The report appears on the screen instantly. Press another key to print
it.
You don't have to know anything about nutrition to use Nutrition
Wizard. It quietly watches sources of calories (such as fats and
protein), cholesterol and fiber for you. But rather than forcing you
to swim through a sea of numbers, the Wizard simply tells you where you
need improvement and how to accomplish it.
If you are weight-conscious, Nutrition Wizard also counts calories
for you. But Nutrition Wizard is far more than a calorie-counting
program. It emphasizes eating WELL. Good eating habits are a key to
permanent weight loss. Nutrition Wizard will teach you to reduce
the empty calories and junk in your diet.
++ An Important Note about Using Nutrition Wizard/QT
Nutrition Wizard/QT does not give medical advice. Nutrition Wizard/QT
should be used only by healthy individuals seeking assistance in
improving their diets. It interprets data on the basis of the personal
information and meal information you provide. The basis for the
interpretations are U.S. government recommendations for nutrient
levels appropriate for healthy persons and its assessments of the
nutrients contained in individual foods. We have made every effort to
insure the accuracy of the information supplied by this program. But
ultimately, you and your doctor must determine if this information is
appropriate for you.
Good health is the most important thing you can own. Discuss any new
nutrition program with your doctor first. In particular, do not make
radical changes in your diet without professional guidance.
We urge you to eat a variety of good foods and stay in the mainstream
of the most thoroughly researched nutrition recommendations. Be wary
of wild, unsubstantiated claims and nutrition quacks. Some can be
harmful.
Pleasant and healthful dining!
++ Copyright Notice
Nutrition Wizard/Quick-Test is free software -- you can give it to
your friends. However, Nutrition Wizard/QT software and its
documentation are copyrighted and subject to both United States
copyright law and international treaty provisions. If you wish to
distribute the program to anyone, see the requirements for this at the
end of this document.
+++ HOW TO INSTALL NUTRITION WIZARD/QT
Nutrition Wizard/Quick-Test has TWO full installation programs:
* If you NEVER use Microsoft Windows, use INSTALL.EXE.
* Otherwise, we suggest you use SETUP.EXE. This is a program that runs
in Microsoft Windows.
To install Nutrition Wizard/Quick-Test do either one of the following:
* In DOS, type A:\INSTALL (or B:\INSTALL) on the command line.
* In Windows, using either the Program Manager or the File Manager,
select RUN from the FILE menu. Type A:\SETUP (or B:\SETUP) and select
the OK button.
Both installation programs tell you what to do.
If you do not want to use an installation program, you can manually
copy Nutrition Wizard files to the disk drive and directory of your
choice. If desired, you can then run the program MAKEGRP from Windows
to create a Nutrition Wizard program group and program icon for you.
+++ HOW TO START NUTRITION WIZARD/QT
To start Nutrition Wizard/QT from Windows, simply double-click on the
Nutrition Wizard icon.
To start the program from DOS, specify the disk drive and path to
Nutrition Wizard/QT on the command line. Examples:
A:\NWQT
C:\NUWIZARD\NWQT
NWQT {if NWQT.EXE is in the current, logged-in directory}
If you used either installation program to copy the program files, you
can also start Nutrition Wizard/QT another way. First make sure that
you have logged-in the root directory of the disk drive on which you
have Nutrition Wizard installed. You will do something like
C:
CD \
Then type
NWQT
+++ HELP ON THE HELP SYSTEM
The Nutrition Wizard/QT help system provides information on
Basics
Commands
Dialog boxes
While using Nutrition Wizard/QT, press F1 at any time to see help
concerning the active window, menu item or dialog box. Press ALT+H to
get help on the basics of using Nutrition Wizard/QT.
To view a different portion of help text use the up and down arrow keys
to change the text viewed by one line. Or press PAGE-UP or PAGE-DOWN
to move the view by a full window of text.
Press ESC to make the help window disappear.
Most help screens have highlighted items that lead to additional help.
Use the TAB and SHIFT+TAB keys to move from one highlighted item to
another. Press ENTER to see help on the highlighted item. Using a
mouse, click on an item to highlight it and double-click to activate it.
Press ALT+F1 to see a previously-viewed help screen. Nutrition Wizard/QT
remembers a series of up to 20 topics.
Press CTRL+F1 to obtain a quick summary of how to enter information in
Nutrition Wizard/QT dialog boxes.
+++ GETTING STARTED
To use the main menu system, do one of the following:
* Press the F10 key. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to select the
desired menu item or press one of the highlighted shortcut letters for
the desired item. Then press the ENTER key.
* Hold down the ALT key and press the highlighted first letter of the
menu. For example, the Personal menu is selected by pressing ALT+P.
Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to select the desired submenu item
or press the highlighted shortcut letter for the desired item.
* If you have a mouse, move the mouse cursor to the desired menu item
and click the mouse button.
To dismiss the menu system press the ESC key or move the mouse cursor
to a spot not on a menu item and click the mouse button.
To obtain help on a feature of Nutrition Wizard/QT, press F1.
Press ESC to make the help screen disappear.
++ You Will Do Three Basic Things with Nutrition Wizard/QT
There are three major activities you will perform as a Nutrition
Wizard/QT user:
1. First, you give the program some personal information (Personal
Profile dialog). You do this only once.
2. Use the food menu in the meal screen to tell Nutrition Wizard/QT what
you eat. The Nutrition window gives an easy-to-use summary of your
nutrition and tells you how you are doing.
3. Whenever you want, you can create a full report. A report includes
an evaluation of your nutrition.
++ Help Topics for New Users
Here are some topics of interest to new Nutrition Wizard/QT users on
the Nutrition Wizard help system. You can reach them by entering ALT+H
G.
* Display screen basics -- information on the basic pieces of the
Nutrition Wizard/QT display screen.
* Personal Profile dialog -- As part of becoming a new user, Nutrition
Wizard/QT displays this dialog to let you tell the program about
yourself. This only needs to be done once.
* Meal screen -- This is the screen you use most of the time.
* Food menu -- You select items from the food menu in a meal screen to
tell Nutrition Wizard/QT what you have eaten.
* Food Amount dialog -- Use this dialog to tell Nutrition Wizard/QT
how much you have eaten of each food.
* Meal Item window -- As you select food items, they form a list here.
* Nutrition window -- The total nutrition for the foods you eat appears
here. It shows either the nutrition for a meal or the whole day.
* View Report screen -- Once you make a report, you view it in one of
these.
* Major screens (activities) -- This is a summary of all the major
screens (activities) in Nutrition Wizard/QT.
+++ DISPLAY SCREEN BASICS
This section provides information on the pieces of the Nutrition
Wizard/QT Jr. display screen. They are all described in the help
system (ALT+H D).
Parts of the screen you always see:
Main menu system (menu bar)
Program information line
Status line
Parts of the screen you sometimes see:
Frame or title bar
Window
Dialog box
Food menu
File viewer
Scroll bar
Major screens (activities)
Label
Information panel
Parts of a window or dialog box that let you enter information:
Command button
Input line
List box
Option buttons
Check box
+++ MAJOR SCREENS
Two types of activities use the entire central screen area in Nutrition
Wizard/QT:
Meal screen
View Report screen
Some points about these screen activities:
* Each screen is made of one or more frameless windows (windows with
only a title at the top).
* The Meal screen is the one you see most.
* The View Report screen does not have a Food Menu window.
* Nutrition Wizard/QT uses dialog boxes to obtain other information
from you.
Only one window in a screen is active and highlighted at a time. There
are three ways to move BETWEEN windows in a major screen:
* Click somewhere on the desired window using a mouse.
* Press TAB repeatedly until the desired window and item are
highlighted.
* Press the F6 key or ALT+W N (Window|Next from the main menu) until
the desired window is highlighted.
Sometimes a window has more than one object -- perhaps an input line
and command buttons. To move between objects WITHIN a window
* Press the TAB or SHIFT+TAB key or
* Click somewhere on the desired control object using a mouse once the
window is active.
A window with several controls behaves just like a dialog box except
you cannot dismiss it.
+++ YOU ENTER DATA USING DIALOG BOXES
A dialog box is a framed, pop-up window containing a collection of
objects such as input lines, check boxes or command buttons you use to
enter data. Dialog boxes have three basic purposes:
* Many Nutrition Wizard/QT commands cause a dialog box to appear in
order to allow you to enter or view information.
* Sometimes Nutrition Wizard/QT itself causes a dialog box to appear.
For example, when you try to exit the program and you have meal
information that has not yet been saved, it automatically provides a
dialog box asking if you want to save the information.
* A dialog box containing a system message (an error notice or warning)
may appear. You can only read what it says. You then tell it to
disappear.
When a dialog box is active, the surrounding screen elements, including
the main menu system, do not operate. You can, however, obtain help by
pressing F1.
Unlike the windows that make up major screen activities, a dialog box
window is a temporary object. It disappears whenever you tell it to
disappear.
To use a dialog box, enter information into the various objects in any
order. The two major navigation keys are
* TAB -- Moves to the next item, usually down or to the right.
Pressing TAB at the last item selects the first item.
* SHIFT+TAB -- Moves to the previous item. Pressing SHIFT+TAB at the
first item selects the last item.
When you are finished and satisfied with the dialog, press the OK
command button (or press the ENTER key).
To dismiss the dialog box without using any changes you entered, select
the Cancel command button (or press the ESC key).
Nearly all dialog boxes have two standard command buttons:
* OK -- Activating this button means that you are finished with this
dialog box and want Nutrition Wizard/QT to use its contents. All OK
buttons use the ENTER key as the shortcut.
* Cancel -- This button means that you are finished with this dialog
box but you do not want Nutrition Wizard/QT to use its contents. This
is the "I changed my mind" button. All Cancel buttons use the ESC key
as the shortcut. Using a mouse to click on the small box in the upper
left corner of the frame is also the same as Cancel.
+++ WHEN YOU CAN'T FIND THE PRECISE FOOD, PICK SOMETHING SIMILAR
We carefully chose the foods in the Nutrition Wizard food menu to
provide the most often eaten foods without overwhelming you with
choices. Sometimes you won't find the exact food, particularly with
mixed dishes. When this happens, do one of two things:
* Choose a similar food.
* If the food is a mixture of ingredients, select the major ingredients.
!!! Remember, the foods and amounts you select in Nutrition Wizard are
always only approximations. Don't worry about getting foods and amounts
precisely correct. You can't do it anyway. The guesses balance out and
in the end you still get a good picture of your eating habits.
+++ DISTRIBUTION RULES AND FILE LIST
As stated earlier, Nutrition Wizard/Quick-Test is free software.
However, both the software and its documentation are copyrighted and
subject to United States copyright law and international treaty
provisions. If you distribute this program you are permitted to
charge a nominal copying/shipping/handling fee of up to $6.
Anyone distributing the program (free or not) must distribute an
entire set of unmodified files:
INSTALL.EXE
INSTALL.INF
SETUP.EXE
SETUP.INF
MAKEGRP.EXE
MAKEBAT.EXE
NWQT.EXE
NW.HLP
NW.DB1
NW.DB4
NWQT.PIF
NWQT.ICO
NWQT.BA$
2NWQT.BA$
README.BAT
VIEWFILE.EXE
MANUAL.TXT
QUICK.TXT
BROCHURE.TXT
FILE_ID.DIZ
Copyright 1995 QPlus Inc.
Nutrition Wizard and QPlus are trademarks of QPlus Inc.