Cons: Somewhat expensive; some versions are not as user friendly as competing products; originally designed for professionals, which leads to some confusion on the part of end users.
NutriBase is nutrition weight loss and diet software on steroids. The personal version, which comes in four flavors, is downsized from the much more extensive professional versions intended for dieticians and other health professionals. In fact, if you go to http://www.nutribase.com, you’ll get the information about the professional version of the weight loss and diet software. The personal editions are featured at http://www.dietweight loss and diet software.com.
As a result, NutriBase is much more powerful than competing weight loosing programs, with more reports, options, and bells and whistles than the competition. However, because it is based on professional weight loss and diet software, it sometimes seems too clinical for the consumer market. In fact, much of the online marketing material about NutriBase refers to clients, suggesting that the weight loss and diet software’s bias toward health professionals might make it inappropriate for end users. It isn’t, but it does take some getting used to.
NutriBase works on both the Palm and Windows operating systems. The Palm version enables you to enter foods that you’ve eaten throughout the day on your PDA and then sync with your PC in the evening. Its database, which is based on the USDA’s extensive nutrient database, tracks up to 88 nutrients. Plus, the database includes brand-name foods and restaurant menu items. There are four different versions of NutriBase:
NutriBase automatically selects the appropriate recommended daily allowances (RDA) for foods based on your age and gender. It also boasts extensive reporting capabilities, including actual versus target weight and body fat. Entering meals into its database is easy because NutriBase lets you auto-record frequently eaten foods and enter them into a food diary for a day. However, NutriBase is not as easy to use as many products.
When you search for a food, for example, the search results bring up food groups, which you then click on to find the appropriate food. For example, if you search for turkey breast, five categories come up entrees; poultry; restaurant, fast food; restaurant, sit down; and sausages and lunch meats. You click on the appropriate section and select your food choice from there. This is one extra step that I would be happy not to have.
Among its more unique features, NutriBase provides a nutrient density view that compares equal caloric values of foods for example, 100 calories of chocolate chip cookies versus 100 calories of lettuce. Guess which one wins? An alarm can alert you when you’ve eaten or you plan to eat a food that exceeds a particular calorie or nutrient limit for example, too much fat or salt.
A Fitness Manager tracks a variety of exercises, automatically calculating calorie expenditures for each based on gender, age, and body weight. It also provides you with an exercise history report, which shows how many calories you’ve burned on a daily basis through exercise activities. You can also get a report that shows you the exercises you’ve done most often and the ones you’ve done least often.
NutriBase also features a meal plan capability that lets you determine your food choices for the next four weeks. There are eight different meal plans available, including diabetic, low-carb, low-fat, vegetarian, and others. This feature is a holdover from the professional version, in which dieticians can prepare meal plans for clients. This is an extremely powerful feature because you can check off the foods you’ve eaten, prepare a deviation report that shows what you’ve eaten that is different from the plan, and analyze the meal plans in many different ways.
NutriBase has extensive reporting capabilities that let users create custom reports that could be hundreds of pages long. This can include eating analyses, recipe analyses, and meal plan analyses. It might be more than you want to know about what you eat, but it’s hard to imagine wanting more data after you use NutriBase. You can download a sample copy of NutriBase that works for 14 days before you have to purchase it.
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