Key Terms

Good Measures places nutrition in the context of your own personal needs and preferences. This is what we like to call Contextual Nutrition. Unlike many programs that take a“one size fits all” approach (either by ranking foods according to their nutrient profile, or making population-wide recommendations), Good Measures helps you identify the foods(that you already eat, and new foods to try) that will help you reach your unique nutrition goals.

We call providing real time meal and snack suggestions that help you address your real time deficits and excesses Contextual Nutrition…The Good Measures Index (GMI) makes realizing the potential of Contextual Nutrition possible.

Your GMI

• Is based on your goals and your specific health needs.

• Lets you know how well your current eating and exercise patterns are helping you meet your nutrition goals with responsive, real-time feedback on a scale of 0-100. The higher your number, the closer you are to reaching your goals.

• Tracks up to 30 different nutrients, so it provides a holistic picture of your health.

• Summarizes your progress into one, simple number that changes dynamically when you log food and exercise.

How is Your GMI calculated?

• Your GMI is a reflection of how well your eating and activity patterns align with your personalized nutrient goals. The GMI considers up to 30 different nutrients and looks at your log for the last seven days.

• Your GMI is contextual, meaning that where you are in relation to your nutrient goals will continually change based on your past behavior and current food choices.

• A meal or snack that improved your GMI yesterday might have a different effect on your GMI today. For example, one day you may be low in calcium, so a snack of low-fat yogurt may increase your GMI. On another day, you may have reached your calcium goal, but be over in saturated fat. Having the same snack of low-fat yogurt may not affect your GMI in the same way.

• You can get a sense what foods will increase your GMI, by looking at your “Suggestions” and “New Foods to Try.” Or, you can experiment by logging a food and seeing how it affects your GMI directly.

GMI Insight

• A report designed to help you gain awareness (nutrient-by-nutrient) of where you have met and missed your nutrient targets. The top part of the report has bars which indicate which nutrient deficits and excesses are keeping you from having a GMI of 100 percent. GMI Targets are based on your nutrient goals, which can be viewed in My Profile under the Nutrient Goals tab, or in the Learn section on the Daily Details page.

The GMI Engine does the heavy lifting in the Good Measures system by understanding your preferences, goals, and unique needs. It uses this information to compute a combination of foods, meals, and serving sizes that will best help you to meet your nutritional goals. The GMI Engine provides you with “optimal” real time meal and snack suggestions.

Meal Suggestions are calculated by the GMI Engine to help you select food combinations and portion sizes that will improve your GMI. Meal Suggestions are based on meals that you have logged, and take into account your personal tastes and preferences. Look for them in the Log and Live sections.

The New Foods to Try list in the Live section shows you foods that the GMI Engine suggests for you based on your needs and preferences (that is, choices that are consistent with addressing your deficits and excesses). A serving of any of these foods will help improve your GMI.