Patent ID: 6102706
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: A21D,A23L,A23V,G09B,G16H,Y02A

Abstract:
A compliance support package for improving the compliance of a patient with a dietary health management system, wherein said system comprises a daily diet including a plurality of prepackaged, nutritionally enhanced, individual meals, each of said meals including a plurality of meal components and at least one nutritionally enhanced meal component, said meals providing a predetermined daily calorie content, wherein protein provides about 15 to about 20% of said desired daily calorie content and wherein fat provides about 20 to about 30% of said desired daily calorie content, and a predetermined level of nutritional enhancement, wherein said nutritionally enhanced meal component comprises an added source of dietary fiber, such that said daily diet comprises dietary fiber in the range of about 20 to about 30 grams, and an added source of vitamins and minerals, including potassium; such that said dailv diet comprises vitamins and minerals of at least about 50% USRDA, potassium in a range of about 3000 mg to about 3500 mg, simple sugars in an amount less than about 96 grams, and sodium in an amount less than about 2400 mg; said package comprising:portion identification aids selected from the group consisting of measuring devices, drawings, diagrams, templates, and combinations thereof, wherein portion sizes of a plurality of said nutritionally enhanced meal components of a plurality of said prepackaged individual meals are identified;food exchange lists, wherein said meal components are identified by said calorie content and level of nutritional enhancement per said portion sizes;food record sheets for recording daily consumption of said meal components and said calorie content and nutritional enhancement corresponding to said portion sizes consumed; anda meal substitutes kit for identifying menus for meal substitutes for said nutritionally enhanced meals which enable the patient to stay within said dietary health management system when at least one of said nutritionally enhanced meals of the system is unavailable.