The Superdiet Computer

Recognising a problem of calculation. Anyone who has had to analyse a diet using the data from food composition tables, will know that by far the most time in the project was spent on tedious arithmetic, rather than the principles of nutrition or dietetics. Such analyses form a necessary part of many student courses at colleges and universities involving a serious study of food and its consumption by human beings. In the authors' experience such subject areas as: home economics, hotel, catering and institutional management, nutrition, dietetics and food science may all require an analytical evaluation of foods, menus or diets in relation to those who may consume them. It is therefore possible that workers in all these fields would find the use of a computer in such analyses an invaluable tool.