Food Solutions offers a software program to address the dietary needs of patients afflicted by food hypersensitivities and other dietary discretions. This program creates daily menus that conform to the requirements of a rotation diet. Now you can respond to the dietary needs of patients suffering from:

. Food Allergies
. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
. Food Cross-Reactivity with Inhalant or Latex Allergies
. Lactose Intolerance
. Gluten Intolerance (Sprue/Celiac Disease)
. Other Food Sensitivities/Restrictions

Convenient to use, this program will initially be accessed via the Internet. Profiles for patients are quickly entered based on their dietary restrictions. Then you will send them home with an easy-to-use, flexible software tool they can use to track, maintain, and customize their personal rotation diet. Now, you are able to tell your patients what they CAN eat.

Food Solutions
. Improves Patients' Quality of Life
. Manages Allergies & Other Food Restrictions
. Saves Time
. Increases Income
. Simplifies Food Rotation
. Customizes Menus & Shopping Lists
. Easy to Use
. Enhances treatment outcomes
. Increases patient compliance

Everyone benefits. Dietitians and physicians for the first time will be able to efficiently manage these complex, time consuming new and established patients. Patients will enjoy more of life, spending less time on the difficult task of designing a personal diet that works for them.

Features include:
Categorization of Foods
Food Solutions comes with an extensive list of basic foods and their nutrient content. Each food belongs to a food group and a food family (defines potential allergenicity and cross-reactivity). This list forms the basis for the program's recommendations for daily menus and can only be altered or refined by the authors of the program.

Recipes
Recipes can be created from the basic foods in the Food Solutions program or from custom or prepackaged foods that are added to an individual's personal data. Food Solutions automatically determines what food family(s) the recipe contains. These recipes appear in food lists just like the basic foods and are subject to the same dietary rules.

Dietary Rules
Food Solutions follows two rules:
. A particular food cannot be eaten more often than every four, six or eight days
. Foods from the same animal/botanical family cannot be eaten more often than every other day

Eliminated Foods
Foods can be eliminated from a patient's profile either permanently or for a limited time. Food Solutions can make foods available again, once a food challenge has been performed by a qualified health care professional and no symptomatology is elicited. The once eliminated food can then be rotated in the diet to prevent re-sensitization.

Dietary Styles
Food Solutions supports two dietary styles:

. Conventional Rotation The program allows 4, 6 or 8 day rotations. Every food family is assigned to a day in a rotating sequence in a pattern that does not violate dietary rules. On any given day, the patient consults his list/suggested menu to decide what food he is allowed to eat. He can optionally record the foods he has actually eaten for a day, which then removes the item from any list for the next four days. Food Solutions is delivered to the patient with a suggested rotation based on his profile. This rotation can be altered and saved by the patient to fit personal circumstances. . Freestyle Rotation The freestyle rotation does not use a pre-planned daily menu. The patient enters the foods he has eaten or plans to eat each day, and, based on those entries, Food Solutions displays all the foods that can be "legally" eaten on a given day. Combining the Two Styles Foods entered as eaten (or planned) under one style affect the other style, so patients can swing between the two styles without breaking dietary rules.

Shopping List and Menus
Patients using the rotational diet can print out shopping lists with pre-packaged foods listed by name and recipes become a list of ingredients. The shopping list is expandable to accommodate others without dietary restrictions. Daily menus can be generated. Both the shopping list and menus can be printed.

Nutrition Summary
For any given day, the nutrient content of the day's menu can be compared against
recommended levels.

Choice of Access
Food Solutions initial release will allow use on the web. Subsequent releases will allow installation on a PC

In the case of web access, the patient information is protected by a password and
personal clue. The patient can use any of the up-to-date web browsers.

In the case of the independent PC, the patient information is kept in a database on
the PC, and there is no need for access protection.

Experienced healthcare professionals, nutritional experts, professional web programmers and designers have formed a team to create and develop this professional, reliable, and intuitive product. Food Solutions is a positive solution to help manage the challenges of food allergies, sensitivities and dietary restrictions.