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MyPersonalDiet User’s Guide 34

8.4 Display

• Select Adjust BMR based on the time of day to display how much energy you

burnt (which is your BMR) at this moment, as opposed to the full day. For

instance, if your BMR is 2000 for the whole day and this option is selected, the

BMR being shown at noon (half-day) would be 1000. This option lets you find

out how much food you can consume now given the time of the day.

• Check off Enhance charts to apply a brightness effect when displaying charts

and graphs. Note that some do not use enhanced effects.

• Check off Zoom charts to narrow the range of the graphs' vertical axis. If

unchecked, the range starts at zero.

• Check off Show average when applicable to display a dotted line showing the

average, in the charts of the Graph view.

• Select Show the diet status on the Today screen to enable the Today plug-in.

Note that you must soft-reset your Pocket PC if you change this option.

• Most nutrients can be displayed along the recommend percent daily value (%DV).

These values are commonly found on U.S. food labels. Select the option Show

percent daily values (%DV) to show these values throughout the application

whenever applicable. Note that some nutrients do not have percent daily values

(monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat and sugars).

8.5 Nutrients

Select the nutrients of interest to you. Only those selected will be displayed in the Food

Browser window as well as the nutrient lists in the Daily and Graph views, considerably

reducing the size of those lists.

When this option is selected, the daily energy is shown as a red bar in the Day view,

when looking at the Daily Summary for Calories (or Kilojoules).

8.6 Markers

Select the blood markers of interest to you. Only those selected will be displayed in the

Graph view’s health entry list, considerably reducing the size of that list.

8.7 Password

Check off Ask password when opening the application and enter a password twice,

along am optional hint. Whenever you open MyPersonalDiet, you will be prompted to

enter the password.