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In order to complete your diet tracking 
project, you will need to find some type 

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of diet tracking software. 
There are books and databases available 

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that might give you basic nutrition 
information, but for this project you 

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will want as much information as you can 
get. 

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This includes information on the vitamins 
and minerals in the foods that you'll eat 

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over a four day period. 
MyPlate.gov does have a useful diet 

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tracking program that I'm going to show 
you how to use in this video. 

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You can navigate to their site just by 
entering ChooseMyPlate.gov And then, 

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looking for SuperTracker and Other Tools. 
Select the SuperTracker, 

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and then click on the icon. 
The tool we're going to be using is the 

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Food Tracker. 
Feel free to navigate some of these other 

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tools. 
They're very useful in looking at your 

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diet and physical activity, what your 
nutrient needs are, and so forth, but we 

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won't need to use all of them to finish 
this project. 

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Let's go to the Food Tracker. 
In order to keep a four day record and 

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create reports, you are going to want to 
log in. 

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To do so, if you haven't, you will need 
to create a profile. 

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Let's go there. 
I've already created a but But just let's 

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go through the basics of the profile 
creation. 

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You'll need to come up with a profile 
name, this does not need to be your 

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actual name. 
And you'll have to enter demographic 

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information. 
This should be your actual information, 

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your age, your gender, your level of 
physical activity. 

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Now, this I recommend that you stick to 
less than 30 minutes a day. 

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I found that SuperTracker tends to 
overestimate the calories we need in a 

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day. 
So, if you increase your physical 

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activity, you calorie requirements are 
going to go even higher, so let's stick 

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to less than 30 minutes a day. 
Enter your height and weight. 

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You can do this by both U.S. 
and Metric options. And then, register to 

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save this information. 
At the end, you'll click Submit. 

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And now, you'll have a username and 
password with which you can log in.