The weight loss exercise database calculates calories burned


Diet & Exercise Assistant

It’s very convenient to keep a food diary using a PDA. After all, it’s cumbersome to enter foods on your computer while you’re eating; it’s much easier to use a PDA. Diet & Exercise Assistant lets you do just that. It features most of the bells and whistles of competing products, sans the support group. It features a food diary, an exercise diary, a weight tracker, and the flexibility of adding foods to the database, although you do this on your PC, not your PDA. Diet & Exercise Assistant works on both Pocket PC and Palm devices.

The Diet & Exercise Assistant provides you with the ability to calculate the calories you burn from exercise each day by analyzing your personal information (height, weight, age, gender, and activities). After you set a weight loss goal and target date, the calorie calculator will set how many calories you can consume each day to reach your goals. The weight loosing program monitors your progress with charts and graphs. Diet plans are available to ensure that you are eating the right nutrients each day. You log diet and exercise activities in the Logbook, which summarizes your daily activities and tells you how you are doing.

The database includes 8,000 foods and tracks calories, carbs, protein, fiber, fat, and saturated fat. Finding foods in the Food Log is not easy. Because everything is categorized according to a group (fats, sweets, and so on), I had a hard time finding foods such as pizza, and there is no search function in the weight loosing program to help you find them. Plus, for fruits, instead of listing one large, small, or medium-sized piece of fruit (nectarine, for instance), the weight loosing program only shows cups, ounces, and other measurements that are difficult to gauge when you’re eating a piece of fruit.

The exercise database calculates calories burned by taking the amount of time you spent exercising and the type of exercise. Users can log their own exercises as well, and the weight loosing program also tracks blood pressure. Food items are summarized based on the USDA Food Guide Pyramid.

The Windows product is designed to be used in conjunction with the PDA weight loss and diet software. It features HotSync conduits that synchronize your user data and the food database. It supports multiple users as well. The company is continually updating their food database, so users can increase the size of their database by linking to the company’s Internet site and downloading database updates.

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