S T R A T - T E C H , I N C . Chester Ceille, President 400 N. Broadway Milwaukee, Wisconsin U.S.A. 53202 1-414-271-0980 Thank you for your interest in "PROGRAM FOR A SMALL PLANET" version 3.2.4. We have greatly enhanced the previous version to include many of your recommendations concerning modern nutritional trends. The program finds healthy, complementary foods and calculates usable protein amounts per the best selling "DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET" by Frances Moore Lappe. The program also calculates total calories, sodium, cholesterol, dietary fiber, and polyunsaturated/ saturated fat. It also displays food group information (this helps when you use an "exchange" nutritional system based on food groups). Finally, it presents exercise alternatives to help you find ways to use your calories in an enjoyable manner. The program checks meals or recipes for nutritional requirements, develops new and healthy recipes, helps to follow a diet, assists in matching approximate calorie intake with use in exercise, helps you control the intake of sodium, cholesterol, type of fat, dietary fiber and protein. We use the "DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET" protein methods in order to help get a handle on two situations: Where you want to make sure you are getting enough protein under certain restrictions (salt, cholesterol, or fat), and the reverse situation to help you from eating to much of it. As you are probably aware, Western Society eats a great excess of protein. The program has detailed information on protein excess. You can find the "no red meat" or "good meat" combinations and their protein amounts. You can find low-cholesterol, low salt, low calorie, and low fat combinations. You can implement any of these trends in modern diet easily with this program so that you do not get to little protein, and conversely, do not consume to much protein which may turn to fat. Almost all national traditional dishes have evolved naturally over long periods of time into "complementary" type food dishes which are consistent with this program: in Latin America, rice or tortillas and beans, in Asia, soy foods and rice, and in Japan, fish and rice. You and the program create varied and delicious new combinations in a matter of minutes instead of centuries! You specify two starting foods, lets say turkey and rice. Then the program lists all the third food combinations which yield a certain minimum level of efficiency in balancing key amino acids among the foods (the key amino acids and the balancing process are listed in the book "Diet for A Small Planet" by dietician Frances Moore Lappe). The program displays total usable grams of protein, and amounts of calories, sodium, fiber, and cholesterol for each combination for you to compare and choose. Also it shows a poly- unsaturated to saturated fat ratio for the individual foods. We calculate our own efficiency measure for the combined protein which indicates the degree to which the amino acids of the foods combine per Ms. Lappe's book. The program screens the third food combinations on the basis of this efficiency measure. This efficient use of foods may help you digest them more easily and may indicate how much of the combined food is used up versus turned to fat. You can plan a meal or recipe properly using the program. The program arrives at combinations for one average serving of each food. A table in the program describes this average serving as to type of food and amount. You then prepare a meal for as many servings as you desire by multiplying the quantities in the table by the desired number of servings. You and your doctor should determine your exact daily total amounts of protein, calories, sodium, cholesterol, fiber, and fat requirements. The program shows some broad averages for daily requirements, but you must adjust the averages for factors such as size, stress, pregnancy, nursing, level of physical exertion, and illness. For example, many nutritionists recommend that those who are more active athletically should eat the same amount of protein as a regular person, but eat more high complex carbohydrates (grains, legumes, fruit) to obtain more energy. The program contains the latest values for egg cholesterol released by the Federal Government in May of 1989. Egg cholesterol was reevaluated and lowered by 22 per cent. Minimum System Requirements are: IBM PC or compatible computer. 100K of RAM internal memory. PC-DOS or MS-DOS operating system, Version 2.0 or later, color or monochrome monitor. To run the program enter "eatwelld" ("d" is the demo version). Enter the command at the Dos prompt for the directory where you place the files. Menus will guide you once the program is started. You can examine, copy, and distribute this demonstration program. It contains a portion of the appoximately 90 most commonly eaten foods which the full program includes. To get the full program you may send $12 U.S. (Wisconsin residents add 5% sales tax); Non-U.S. customers add $3.00 shipping and handling - you may send a check in your currency for an equivalent amount of US dollars. Mail to Strat-Tech, Inc., P.O. Box 1957, Milwaukee, WI 53201, U.S.A. The order form file (enter "type order.frm|more" with Dos) has more ordering information (credit card, delivery, phone order, etc.). If you prefer we can send the files to you on Compuserve via Easyplex mail. Send your Compuserve userid and associated name to us at 72317,2332. You will make a binary file download of the program. "Tapcis" 5.2 software automatically downloads binary files if you use this program with Compuserve. Please specify if color or a high resolution monochrome (for any monochrome monitor) display is desired. Thank you in advance for your purchase and please stay in touch!. If you desire we can customize a program for you to screen out or in foods by any combination of these factors: cost, cost per gram, cholesterol, sodium, red-meat, calories, group of food (dairy, seafood, legumes, meat, vegetable, grain, nuts and seeds, flour, nutritional additive), grams of usable protein. We can as well update the costs for your city or country. The added fee to customize by any of the above (except cost) is $200. ----- Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments or suggestions- Chester Ceille Compuserve Easyplex Email: 72317,2332 Or write to me at PO Box 1957, Milwaukee, WI 53201, U.S.A. Phone: 414-271-0980 ----- The software is intended to be used only as a tool and not as a professional adviser. Neither STRAT-TECH nor anyone else involved in the creation, production or distribution of the software warrants, guarantees, or makes any representations regarding the use of the software in terms of correctness, accuracy, reliability, currency, or otherwise, and you rely on the software and results solely at your own risk. Neither STRAT-TECH nor anyone else who has been involved in the creation, production, or distribution of this software shall be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages arising out of the use, the results of use, or inability to use the software even if STRAT-TECH or any such other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. License ------- Copyright (c) 1989, Strat-Tech, Inc. All Rights Reserved. You are free to use, copy and distribute the demo for noncommercial use IF: NO FEE IS CHARGED FOR USE, COPYING OR DISTRIBUTION. IT IS NOT MODIFIED IN ANY WAY. Clubs and user groups may charge a nominal fee (less than $10) for expenses and handling while distributing the model. Volume discounts, site licenses, commercial licenses and custom versions of the program are available. Write to the address above for more information. This program is provided AS IS without any warranty, expressed or implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular purpose. Biography: CHESTER C. CEILLE ----------------------------- He finds innovative solutions to client needs with a team oriented philosophy. He led one recent project which included a team of Managers from Marquette University, the Wisconsin Department of Development, and the Milwaukee School of Engineering in setting up a Midwest Conference on Innovation which included Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and best selling author Dr. Richard Foster. Mr. Ceille has a bachelors degree in Accounting and an MBA from Marquette University. He studied in a doctoral program in Economics at Michigan State University and has taught macro and micro economics. The Planning Forum, an International Society for Planning and Strategic Management, elected him Vice-President, and he sits on its Board of Directors. He has also served on the Board of Directors of Country Gardens Restaurant, a famous Milwaukee gourmet restaurant. ------------ Further Help ------------ STRAT-TECH, Inc. does consulting in the Planning, Market Research, and Personal Computer system arenas. Our business has existed about 5 years. 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