New feature: Import your customized nutrition recommendations

I wanted to bring your attention to a new feature that we've recently added to the Daily Needs Calculator. For those who haven't experimented with it, the Daily Needs Calculator estimates your daily calorie needs, based on your age, gender, BMI (body mass index), daily activity level, and exercise. This can help you tailor your intake to lose, maintain, or even gain weight.

The calculator also gives you the recommended minimum nutrient intakes for your gender and age group--which can vary greatly from the all-purpose Daily Values (DVs) that are used on food labels and in analysis reports here on Nutrition Data.

Here's what's new

Now, you can import your customized nutrient recommendations directly to your Nutrition Data Preference Settings, where they can be saved as your Individualized Daily Values (IDVs).  Once they've been imported into your preference settings, you can also edit them if you like. For example, you might wish to lower your target sodium intake or increase your target vitamin C intake. 

Once saved, your IDVs will replace the all-purpose DVs in your Total Consumption Reports.  Return to Preference Settings at any time to edit your IDVs or restore them to the default DVs.

Cool, huh?