My Nat Help
Enter your personal information

The dietary suggestions for men, women, and various age groups are different. Please select your appropriate category so that NAT will give you a more accurate recommendation. Click on the drop down menu in this step, hold the mouse button down, and choose your Age and Gender Category. If you are pregnant or lactating, choose the appropriate catagory.

STEP 2:
Select foods to be analyzed

In order to add a food item to your Personal Diet List (PDL), click the mouse in the white box above the Add Food button and type in the name of the food you wish to add. MY NAT will search its extensive database and will return a list of all the food items that match the word or words you typed in. Your PDL keeps track of all the foods you add, the serving size and number of servings for each food, and the total gram weight of each food you add.

Helpful Hints for Choosing Foods to be Analyzed

The USDA database has nearly any food that you can possibly think of, but sometimes it has the food listed under a different name or phrase than you might expect. If you have trouble finding a particular food try thinking of other words that mean the same thing.

• start general However, if too many foods are matched, go back and be more specific.
For example:
chicken (225 items matched)
chicken leg (9 items matched)
chicken leg fried (3 items matched)

• try a different word or phrase
For example:
coke (will not match)
carbonated beverage (will match)

• some foods are entered as verbs rather than as nouns
For example:
french fries (will not match)
french fried (will match)

• some foods are entered as plural rather than singular
For example:
jelly (will not match)
jellies (will match)

• some commercial names are not in the database
For example:
McDonalds or Tyson (will not match), but fast food hamburger (will match)
Cheerios (will match)