This system will be used to aid in the research project known as the Ecuador Project (http://www.unc.edu/humanbiolab). This goal of this project is to examine the effects of market integration on the health of seven indigenous groups from Amazonian Ecuador. This particular system will be used in the nutritional aspect of this study. The idea of making this system is to be able to evaluate nutritional health of individuals by evaluating the nutritional content of their first daily meal. On a larger scale this system will provide the means to make comparisons of nutritional health among the seven communities.
Upon completion this system will not only allow the user to be able to evaluate the nutritional intake of individuals, families, households and communities but also to make hypothetical nutritional situations for each of these categories (i.e.; examining the difference in protein intake of each individual in household 7, of community 2, if one egg is added to each person’s first daily meal).
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