You can elect not to have a password or to set a password which will prevent access to the application on subsequent uses of GC Pro™

You can reset the password, switch it on or off from the Maintenance screen.
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Initial Settings:
When you first start GC Pro™ your iPhone/iPod Touch will show a brief splash screen. After a few seconds to allow time to load the database, you will be presented with the Initial Settings screen:



If at any time you require getting back to this settings screen, simply touch the “Initial
Settings” navigation button, below the primary screen.
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Date of Birth: Simply touch the Date of Birth Button. You will be taken to a three part wheel input screen. Select your Day, Month & Year and then touch the “Done” button at the upper left screen corner.

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Your Gender: Slide the indicator to "Female" or leave it where it is to indicate "Male"

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Height: Before inputting your actual height, move the measurement indictor (only if you wish to use just Inches or Centimetres instead of feet & inches), if that is the scale with which you are most familiar.

Having completed that, touch the word “Height” to go to the input screen where you will be presented a numerical keypad to enter your height and a “Save” button on the upper left screen corner to record your entry. Note: If you are using feet and inches you may enter inches including .5 for those half way between a full inch measure (6.5 inches is a valid entry). This may prove important for the Glucose-Charter™
in computing an accurate BMI (Body Mass Index).


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Weight: You may select either Kilograms or pounds by moving the indicator.


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Glucose Units:
This is the unit setting for how your blood glucose is measured.
Milligrams per Deci-Litre mg/dL or Millimoles per Litre mmo/L
Please choose the unit system which corresponds to your measuring device.

Diabetes Type:
Type 1. While our program will assist you to record your blood glucose levels we do not advise it be used for any other purpose. Your diabetes requires professional medical advice and monitoring, we strongly advise you to consult a qualified physician.


Type 2. Dietary Control:
This program was designed to assist this type of person with diabeties. However we strongly advise you to consult a qualified physician, before using this program.

Type 2. Oral Medication:
This program was designed to assist this type of person with diabeties. However we strongly advise you to consult a qualified physician, before using this program. Continue to take any medication prescribed by your medical adviser.

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Type 2. (Insulin) Pump
While our program will assist you to record your blood glucose levels we do not advise it be used for any other purpose. Your diabetes treatment regime requires professional medical advice and monitoring, we strongly advise you to consult a qualified physician.

Type 2. (Insulin) Injected
While our program will assist you to record your blood glucose levels we do not advise it be used for any other purpose. Your diabetes treatment regime requires professional medical advice and monitoring, we strongly advise you to consult a qualified physician.

Type 2. Mixed Medication
While our program will assist you to record your blood glucose levels we do not advise it be used for any other purpose. Your diabetes treatment regime requires professional medical advice and monitoring, we strongly advise you to consult a qualified physician.

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Logs.
By touching the Logs button on the bottom menu you will be taken to the input section: Here you may enter measurements and notes for weight, blood glucose, Insulin, other medications and foods eaten.

BMI
An effective means of monitoring your diabetes is to watch your weight. The Body Mass Index (BMI) is widely used to indicate healthy ranges for people of various body shapes. If you fall into the “Obese” BMI category we strongly advise you to seek medical help in reducing your body-weight so that you fall within the Overweight category at least and Normal category if possible.
Please record your weight on a daily basis, or whenever possible.
To do so touch the BMI button on the menu.
Enter your measured weight in the units of your choice, press Save
If you do not want to enter anything at this time you may press Close



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Glc.
Press the Glc button this will bring up the Glucose entry screen.
Once you have entered your glucose measurement you may press Save
If you do not want to enter anything at this time you may press Close


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Carbohydrates.
By controlling your consumption of carbohydrates you may alleviate some of the extreme symptoms usually seen when excessive amounts of dietary sugars.
A number of users of the "Lite" version of Glucose-Charter were confused by the food database we provided. Expecting all food groups to be included. We concentrated on providing a qualitative database displaying carbohydrate amount, Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load. It is important to your health to understand how these factors affect your body, please consult your medical professional regarding dietary information.
Again we have not indicated the serving size but as a general rule any more than 15 grams (approx half an ounce) of carbohydrate in a serving is undesirable.
Our indicators show:
GREEN <=15g (half oz) ORANGE(1oz) <=30g RED >30g (1oz)

Many foods have their dietary information on the packaging. You may enter your own values "Brand" "Product description" Size and Carbohydrate content. Additionally if you have Glycemic Index and/or Glycemic Load values for the food you may enter those. This data may be shared with other users by submitting your values to the server. Once our staff have reviewed the values they may be made available to all users or the data may be combined or revised by us to provide our users with better food values. See Food Database in the Maintenance section.

It is not necessary to participate in this global food database, you may elect to use only your own entered foods and any supplementary foods we may provide with future upgrades of the application. You can remove any or all of these foods from your own database. Please see the Food Database

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Charts.
Both BMI and Blood Glucose Charts appear on the same screen.
The Blood Glucose Chart shows 3 lines and points where appropriate.
Red = High value. Green = Average value. Blue = Low value.

You may rotate the device to view the charts in "Landscape" mode.

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BMI.
This chart indicates your calculated body-mass index. This international scale is used to determine whether an adult person of average fitness is underweight below 18.5, normal 18.5 to 25, overweight 25 to 30, or Obese above 30. Note: highly muscular athletes show as being overweight when clearly the majority of their body mass is muscle.
The desired range for most people is Normal however Overweight is acceptable as well, it will require more discipline when selecting foods and foods with high glycemic loads and diets with high calorie intakes should be avoided.
Underweight is also concerning and may indicate other medical problems, we strongly advise consulting professional medical advice if you fall into this category.


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Maintenance.
Here you may reset Glucose-Charter Settings and/or Data.


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About Us.
Will show details of the program version and other information.


Backup/Restore.
Being able to backup data and settings is very important. We have spent a lot of time working on the backup and restore procedures in this program.

Backup - will send all of the information in the program to our Database server.

Please note that NO PERSONAL Identification Data is included in this data store. We backup the data based on the PIN number of the device. (Contents)

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Restore allows you to restore your settings and data from a previous backup set. It need NOT be the same PIN number as your current installation. If for example you change devices the new installation will have a different PIN number from your previous installation. You should therefore store your PIN number so that you can use it for this purpose.

You may change PIN number to your previous PIN if required.

Restoration will now commence. Please be patient, restoring the data takes somewhat longer than backup, the backup server is many times more powerful than the device and although the data transfer is quick the restoration does take time.

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Food Database.
We have provided a small Food Database with the program. You may add foods from it or enter your own food information. If you choose your food information will be shared with other users of the program. When food data is approved by our staff it will be added to the Food Database and made available by the Synchronization function.
Please note the Synchronization function takes some time (several minutes). This is not because of a large amount of data transfer but the speed of the device rewriting the database.

During the Sync process..

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Reset Logs
Resets all logged information - but NOT initial settings.

Upon completion.

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Reset GC Pro™
Will reset everything including those initial settings above.

Upon Completion.

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Password Maintenance
Here you can reset, switch on or off the password requirement.

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Reports
This is a very important section. It deals with what data should be included in your reports, when the reports should be sent, to what email addresses (up to 4) and whether or not the reports should be automatically sent.

Please enter an appropriate email address.

You may also send the notes for any/all logs with your report.
By default ALL information is sent. You may change this at will.
 
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Insulin Calc
Following a request from a GC Pro™ user we have introduced the Insulin Calculator as a feature in GC Pro™ 3.0
By obtaining Corrective factors for Carb and Insulin and a Target Rate from your health professional you may insert these into the calculator. These factors do change from time to time but with much less frequency than the Carb and Insulin readings which may be taken several times per day.

To use the Calculator ..
Press the > button beside the (U) Total Insulin Required  xx.xx  value.
Enter the values from your health professional. Put in your Carb (factored in grams) and your Blood Glucose reading. Press Done and you should have an Insulin required value. For safety please check these values against your current system, until you are confident the calculator is returning the correct Insulin required dose.

We are using the following formulas to perform these calculations. You may check them using a calculator or spreadsheet program.

A = (BG - TR) / CF

B = CB / KF

U = A + B

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