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The overall goal of this program is to calculate the optimum amounts of what supplements someone should buy based on the cost of the supplement, their age and their gender.

The current version splits the user into a group dependent on their age and gender. This group is labeled by a number.

Project goals

Coding
1. Add supplement amounts from health canada.
2. Allow user input of specified amounts
3. Comparison of user input valus to health canada values.
4. Optimize user input to allow for names of supplements being added along with cost and multiple ingredients.
5. comparison of amounts added to health canada values
6. cost calculation
7. cost optimization based on combination of components of each ingredient being added.
8. adaption of code for use in html browser
9. adaption of code for mobile phone app

Wiki
1. detailed list of core nutrients and what they do.

The amounts of supplements are currently based loosely off
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/hpfb-dgpsa/pdf/nutrition/dri_tables-eng.pdf

This project is based on the soylent project.
http://www.soylent.me/