THE DIET ANALYZER - DIET/NUTRITION ANALYSIS.

MSDOS (will run in an MSDOS window [click here for MSDOS NOTES] under Windows

Anyone who has ever tried to diet knows the problem - count, count, count! Just keeping track of calories is a monumental task. Did you ever stop to wonder about the dozens of other nutrients, like cholesterol, or vitamins, that are usually forgotten? The DIET ANALYZER makes it easy for you to review and improve your eating habits. You simply enter foods and it automatically shows you 24 nutrients for each food and keeps running totals!

With DIET ANALYZER you can:

O Easily look up nutritional information about foods and adjust that information based on portion sizes.

O Make intelligent menu planning a pleasure. Enter a typical menu and see how it stacks up to what you should be eating. Make a little adjustment here or there until you get it right. Print menus on paper and build a library of nutritionally balanced meals.

O Keep a log of the foods you eat. Periodically compare your average daily intake of 24 nutrients with your targeted goals.

As you insert, adjust, or delete foods in the Work Sheet, all nutrients and totals are instantly and automatically updated. Foods are entered into the Work Sheet by name. Just type in complete or partial food names and/or codes (e.g., vegetables), and the computer will display all matching foods from the Food Dictionary. The Work Sheet accepts a wide range of measuring units for adjusting portion sizes. It allows special units (e.g., a slice of bread, or an egg) as well as the usual weight and volume measures.

Nutritional information may be displayed in physical units (e.g., grams, milligrams, etc.) or as percent of dietary goal.

The food dictionary is based on U.S. Dept. of Agriculture tables, and contains many foods typically consumed in American homes. It is easy to add, change, or delete foods. You can add homemade foods by entering their recipes.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Nutrients listed in Food Dictionary - Calories, Protein, Fat, Saturated fatty acids, Oleic fatty acids (mono- unsaturated fats), Linoleic fatty acids (polyunsaturated fats) Carbohydrates, Fiber, Cholesterol, Sodium, Vitamin A Vitamin C, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Calcium, Iron, Potassium, Phosphorous, Magnesium, and four nutrients. The Food Dictionary comes with 1,000 foods. Individually tailored Goal Profiles of 24 nutrients may be kept for six people. Diet History provides ample capacity for six simultaneous 7-day diet studies, or an individual 3-month study.

DIET ANALYZER REVIEW

(Reviewed by Michael S. Davidson, Creative Computing ):

"A very significant feature of this program is the Food Dictionary. This database has nutritional information on 500 foods and, depending on your hardware, is expandable to 1,900 foods. You can add, change, or delete items. You can also enter any combination of foods home recipes, processed foods, and entire meals into the dictionary.

The program has a fully integrated set of instructions in Help. Using Help will answer any questions about the working of the program and is a highly expanded of the Users Guide.

Overall, this superior program is extremely easy to use. The data base is taken from a series of U.S. government sources, and although the accompanying manual does not indicate the credentials of the writers, the program is professionally conceptualized and appears to have been developed by health professionals. It provides the diet analyzer with sufficient information to determine his own course of dietary action. I can recommend this program most highly."

Note: The latest version of the DIET ANALYZER includes a tutorial diskette and over 100 exercises to adjust daily caloric intake based on type of exercise and exercise time.

See review in PC magazine.

Price: $49.95