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Started by Rob
Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:22
Hello all, new to group(s), USDA nutrition database in Excel 5/97 format
Author: Rob
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:22
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:22
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BACKGROUND: Last May I discovered I was diabetic in a pre-surgery blood test. This must have occurred recently, because my serum glucose level was 82 August 99, and had never tested out of the 77-82 range before this May. As a part of a hobby in 95, I downloaded the 2-3 dozen or so nutrition dBase databases (#SR13xx) from the USDA, and did some combining and conversions. One conversion was to put them into Excel format. The other was to put them into easy to use serving sizes. The serving size conversions were because most of the data was from 100gram test portions, and I wanted to be able to calculate total nutrients for my recipies and eating habits. These databases originally contained about 5,900 foods. The file tripled in size to about 17,800 records after I generated new records that had my serving size records inserted. I did this about five years ago, and it's been sitting around since. I dug it up a few weeks ago due to my new ==>FORCED<== interest in nutrition. The data is free for the downloading and freely distributable, non copywrited. I'm guessing it may be of interest to you in the diet and diabetes groups. If you find the data useful, pass it on as well as the URLs. Rob. www.robthomas.com -------------------------------------------------------------- Full USDA Nutrition files Sorted by "Short Description," full 17,900 records and this file broken up alphabetically into 5 files. All files are about 2 megs in size, and are self extracting to about 4 to 8 megs, except the nuts-a-z.exe which is about 5 megs in size and expands to 21 megs. SAMPLE: "A" foods only, all nutrients listed. File size is 132,158. SAMPLE: "Foodlist" short description only of the 6,000 foods only, 155,553 in size SAMPLES: http://216.254.101.176/a_foods.exe http://216.254.101.176/foodlist.exe FULL FILES: http://216.254.101.176/nuts-a-z.exe ----------------------------------- http://216.254.101.176/nuts-a-b.exe http://216.254.101.176/nuts-c-c.exe http://216.254.101.176/nuts-d-k.exe http://216.254.101.176/nuts-l-q.exe http://216.254.101.176/nuts-r-z.exe
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