To start a new user file you just select 'Update Symptoms' from the 'Action' menu or click the 'Update Symptoms' button in the Toolbar. You must not include water in your list of foods and drinks because it may be temporarily excluded from the diet while the pattern of food and symptom reactions is established. If you need to take a break from the NeuroDiet daily update you should try to keep a note of what you eat and how your symptoms vary. If you skip any updates NeuroDiet will let you enter all your foods and symptom changes for the missing days when you start using it again. Similar foods and combination foods with similar ingredients should not be assumed to be the same. NeuroDiet has been successfully used in the relief of arthritic pain. NeuroDiet does not differentiate between foods and drinks, both are considered to be foods. All changes in symptoms are relative to the previous day. Each symptom must be better than the day before, worse than the day before or the same as the day before. All the current and historical measures of symptoms, foods, time, neural network nodes, connection and configuration data are held in your file. The neural network calculations in NeuroDiet are dependent on the date and time moving forward. If the date and time goes backwards for any reason then the results of the neural network calculations will be wrong. NeuroDiet will warn you if the date and time on your PC has gone backwards. NeuroDiet can help you control your weight. Insomnia can be greatly relieved using NeuroDiet. Just include your quality of sleep as a symptom. With Neurodiet it is possible to work out which foods and drinks are causing problems with your fitness programme. If it is your intention to lose weight then you need first to work out a realistic target weight in a specific length of time. You should consider your daily weight change to be a symptom. NeuroDiet usually detects food sensitivities within 30 days providing that the foods have been eaten a few times during the period. NeuroDiet has no dietary or medical information built in. It learns everything from you. Foods that you eat every day cannot be evaluated by NeuroDiet. You must vary your diet. If your symptoms do not vary NeuroDiet will change your diet by excluding some foods. If your symptoms do not respond then NeuroDiet is not for you! A NeuroDiet "New day" starts at 04:00 because some people are still eating at midnight! NeuroDiet works best with less than ten symptoms. NeuroDiet does not need to know how much of a food you eat. If your symptoms respond differently to large potions of food then your average reaction will be used. You can see a list of food scores using the "View" menu. You can see the current lists by clicking the "Generate current lists" button.