Introduction - Perfect Portions NUTRITION SCALE Instruction Manual

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to your new Perfect Portions Scale—a state-
of-the-art Nutrition Scale that weighs your food and si-
multaneously calculates the amount of 10 key nutritional
elements:
- Calories
- Calories from Fat
- Carbohydrates (in grams)
- Protein (in grams)
- Fat (in grams)
- Saturated Fat (in grams)
- Fiber (in grams)
- Sugars (in grams)
- Cholesterol (in grams/milligrams)
- Sodium (in grams/milligrams)
Additionally, the scale will calculate the percent daily val-
ue for the most of these elements based on a daily diet
of 2,000 calories.
The Perfect Portions nutritional scale is designed to
serve the needs of health conscious individuals who
want to establish and maintain a healthy lifestyle. This
means making a gradual change in your eating habits
– becoming increasingly conscious of what you choose
to eat and the implications for your health and sense of
well being.
Although the Perfect Portions nutritional scale provides a
convenient way to create a nutritious diet, perhaps a more
important function is to help those who use it to monitor
and manage food choices and portion sizes day by day.
As the scale helps you to become familiar with the nutri-
tional content of many common foods, you can learn to
make decisions with confidence at the grocery store, in
restaurants and other places where the scale isn't avail-
able. Our idea of portion size has been exaggerated by
the huge quantities of food often served in restaurants.
The scale will show the relationship between portion size
and calorie and nutrient content and allow you to make
better nutrition decisions for your family.
The Perfect Portions nutritional scale is a highly sensi-
tive and accurate piece of equipment. It can measure
the nutritional values for individual foods or entire meals.
The scale also calculates and stores cumulative nutrient
totals. Users may want to keep a journal to record their
daily nutritional intake over time and to share the infor-
mation with their physician or nutrition professional.
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