Nutrition Tracking Software

March 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

There’s quite a bit of software out there that deals with nutrition. Tiger Software has a couple in their catalog, one called Life Form, it records your meals and you can view nutritional information by food, single meal, or daily, weekly and monthly summary. There’s a second one that’s called Active Trainer. This is for people who work out and in addition has nutritional information for the athlete. The descriptions of these two programs looks good however, I have not seen them. So take this for whats it worth.

 

The former is $39.99 and the latter $49.99. I don’t know if you ever go to those buying clubs like Costco’s Warehouse or B.J.’s, Sam’s etc. but in Costco’s, there’s a software program I saw called getting in shape. The box describes workout routines and nutrition. I have some share ware stuff both for nutrition and working out.

 

The nutrition one was excellent. I loaded on my system awhile ago and breezed through it and it looked very good. You can find this in book stores or anywhere they sell shareware. Every time I look for shareware in the bookstores, I always see this program. (I just looked for it and I can’t find it!) But anyway, I think it’s called Nutrition Expert. Its from a shareware company called Software Lab.

 

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Nutrition For Life

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Nutrition For Life develops, markets and sells high quality products for weight management, nutrition and personal care to meet the needs of today’s health conscious consumer. Nutrition For Life’s extensive product range is sold through its organization of independent distributors and gives them the potential to earn good money fast! Nutrition For Life is a superb opportunity to start your own business or supplement your existing income through the power of Network Marketing.

 

You are warmly invited to visit our home page or mail us for further details of the products and how to become a distributor. The following publications may be helpful for occupational therapists teaching life skills classes or food preparation. The bulletin features publications by health professionals. The books and pamphlets are self-published by non-profit organizations or by small printing companies. An integrated, creative approach to Nutrition Education for children ages 6-10. Packed with nutrition education activities and strategies that are kid-tested and teacher endorsed, this new book provides practical guidance on how to structure nutrition education in a school or group setting.

 

Includes guidelines for instilling positive food attitudes and activities which integrate nutrition into most subject areas. The Food Dudes is a nutrition education package developed for students in Grades 1 to 3 by three Canadian teachers and a nutritionist (RD) to complement school lunch programs. “Food is Fun” is the theme of The Food Dudes with a focus on exploring foods and developing positive feelings about food. The activities included relate to meal programs and are integrated into core subjects such as mathematics, language arts and science. Nutrition Resources Guidebook 1995 (NRG95) gives you 200 pages of more than you ever wanted to know about food and nutrition resources.

 

Fifty chapters on different topics include reviews, abstracts, references and ordering information for print, audio and video resources. Although Canadian resources are highlighted, important American materials are included. American Dietetic Association publications are listed in the appropriate chapters. All proceeds from NRG95 sales (including writing fees) go to Dial-A-Dietitian Nutrition Information Society of B.C., a not-for-profit organization providing free information on food and nutrition to the public and food and health professionals. The aim is to have NRG95 in every library. You can help through personal contact with librarians in government agencies, universities, schools and in your community.

 

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Expanded nutrition program

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I rise today to ask my colleagues to join me in observing the 30th anniversary of the Expanded Nutrition Program. On Monday, I will be with the Expanded Nutrition Program of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi to celebrate this all- important anniversary. We are all fortunate enough to know how very important, how very fundamental, nutrition is to each of us. Each one of us, for better or worse, is a product of what we began to eat when we were younger.

 

I am so very proud of the work South Texans have done to learn more about nutrition. I am so grateful for the vision in association with the Expanded Nutrition Program (ENP) in Texas. ENP has been providing nutrition education to poor families and children since 1968, and it is easily one of our most productive programs. ENP teaches an assortment of things all of us need in order to be productive, healthy citizens: life skills, self-sufficiency, better health and nutrition, careful budgeting, commitment, responsibility and personal success. All in all, ENP leads the way to a healthier way of life.

 

Better still, EPN saves us money; each dollar spent on ENP is $10 saved on health care costs. ENP teaches lessons about food and nutrition in a supportive environment. The “Kids in the Kitchen” program provides leadership development for young people who need esteem or leadership skills. Young people who help prepare family meals learn valuable lessons about sharing workload and responsibility.

 

Through the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Texans have learned about basic nutrition, managing a food budget, food safety and food preparation. Women who are returning to work can learn to prepare quick and easy, yet nutritious, meals to ease the family’s adjustment to the change. Positive, productive activities may reduce the chance of risky behavior. I want to ask all my colleagues to join me today in observing the 30th anniversary of the Expanded Nutrition Program.

 

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What is this nutrition therapy?

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I rise this afternoon to call attention to some unfinished business from the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. In this landmark legislation, Congress directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to work with the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine to study medical nutrition therapy as a potential benefit to the Medicare program. In December of last year, the Institute of Medicine released their study.

 

They found that nutrition therapy has been shown to be effective in the management and the treatment of many chronic conditions which affect Medicare beneficiaries, including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, and kidney disease. They also found that Medicare beneficiaries undergoing cancer treatment may benefit from nutrition therapy aimed at controlling side effects or improving food intake. They recommended that medical nutrition therapy–with physician referral–be covered as a benefit under the Medicare program. I have been working with my friend and colleague from New Mexico, Senator Bingaman, for the last several years on medical nutrition therapy legislation.

 

The bill we introduced establishes a new Medicare outpatient benefit that would allow our senior citizens to work with a registered dietitian or nutrition professional to learn how to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease. This legislation, S. 660, has been cosponsored by 35 of our colleagues. Its House companion, sponsored by Representative Nancy Johnson, has been supported by two-thirds of the House Members. As Congress considers additional refinements to the Balanced Budget Act, we must be certain that we keep our focus on the beneficiary.

 

In addition to providing health care providers with needed relief, we must seize the opportunity to give our Nation’s seniors access to medical nutrition therapy. I urge my colleagues to join with Senator Bingaman and I to take care of this unfinished business before this Congress ends. We must make certain that action on medical nutrition therapy coverage occurs this year. I hope my colleagues will join with me on this issue.

 

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Nutrition – How to identify diet quaks?

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You can lose 10 pounds in 10 days! Sounds too good to be true? But it is what people want to hear. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported over one-third of Americans are obese. National surveys have shown that at any given time 25 to 50 percent of Americans are on some sort of diet and we spend $30 billion each year on diet aids and remedies. Weight loss advice comes in hundreds of disguises. You need to be discriminating about the nutrition information you read and hear. Nutrition quacks promote false and/or unproven nutrition products or services for profit.

 

Quacks can be sincere and misguided individuals, as well as frauds. Quackery is successful because we want to believe in something “magical” that can promote fast weight loss more than a healthy diet and lifestyle. You can avoid being a victim of a diet scam by learning to recognize the techniques used by nutrition quacks to manipulate customers by identifying them when the program: – Claims or implies a large or fast weight loss (more than 1 to 2 pounds per week). Beware of a quick fix! – Implies weight can be lost and maintained without exercise and other lifestyle changes. – Is described as miraculous, a breakthrough, exclusive, ancient. – Relies heavily on undocumented case histories, before and after photos, and testimonials. Diet scams try to appear trustworthy by having well-known celebrities and athletes promote their product. – Is sold by self-proclaimed health advisers or “nutritionists,” often door-to-door or by a pyramid sales organization.

 

How do you recognize reliable and accurate nutrition information? The following guidelines by Registered Dietitian Ellen Coleman will help you evaluate nutrition claims: – What are the qualifications of the person recommending the product or diet? A reputable person usually has a background or current affiliation with an accredited university or medical school offering programs in the fields of nutrition or medicine. – What evidence does the person supply for any claims that are made? The claims should be supported with references to the scientific journals that published the original research. – If the information is written, why was it published? Is someone trying to sell you something?

 

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Nutrition and recovery

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I am mostly interested in the before and after parts, as I believe most triathletes (all?) believe in crab replacement when doing endurance training. Is there possibly something to these claims, which would provide additional benefits beyond a balanced diet? Is there any one who has tried either of these systems with positive results? I have a desire, as we all do, to get the most out of my training. If either of these products actually hasten recovery, then it is less likely over training will occur. The sooner you recover, the sooner you can get back out there.

 

While I am no expert nor have I placed in any triathlon event, unless you consider crossing the line ‘placing’! :) I am using the Champion Nutrition Products and do reap benefits from taking them. As for the background, last year before getting fully involved in this ‘sport’, I was a recreational runner, then added biking. Swimming just came into being this year, as last year’s TRI events killed this body. Never hop into water without the appropriate training, even 400 yards is a long way when you haven’t been in water for 5+ years.

 

But back then, I was doing doubles, meaning I would run every morning and then do another workout for lunch, either another 6-8 mile run or bike 20-24 miles. Many of my peers informed me I was over training to the max and I just tore my body up. After having done two sprints and a marathon, I completed my 96 goals. This year I vowed to train smarter and am only doing single workouts, but better ones. I run MF, bike TTH and run to the pool on W, with a hopeful workout on the weekends. I was/am training for a half-ironman and another marathon.

 

I was geared and ready for Wildflower, just toooo late for signing-up. OK, so what about the nutrition part..I use Met Endurance, ProScore 100 and CytoMax and occassional bars/gels. Usually, 9 out of 10, I have a shake at night with ProScore to feed the muscles and add Met. I have found that drinking an entire pitcher enhances my recovery and am able to go again without soreness the next day. Muscles are refreshed and recovered. Drinking Cyto during the workout adds to the replacement value. This last weekend I did a 65-70 mile ride w/ 4000+ of climbing and when I got done I had a replacement shake; note, during I drank a combo of cyto and met and never felt sore and no cramps…the bananas help too!

 

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Nutrition – the vegan way

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Michael Klaper, M.D. graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago in 1972. He Served his medical internship at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada and took under took additional training in surgery, anesthesiology, orthopedics and obstetrics at the University of California Hospitals in San Francisco. As Dr. Klaper’s medical Career progressed, he began to realize that many of the diseases his patients brought to his office – clogged arteries (atherosclerosis) high blood pressure (hypertension), obesity, adult onset diabetes, and even some forms of arthritis, asthma, and other significant illnesses – were made worse, or actually caused, by the high-fat, overly processed Standard American Diet (S.A.D.).

 

This prompted him to undertake a serious study of the link between diet and disease, eventually leading him to implement nutritionally-based therapies in his practice. The results were dramatic. Nearly all of his patients who followed his dietary, exercise, and stress reduction programs soon became leaner and more energetic, while their elevated blood pressures and cholesterol levels returned to safer values. (In twelve weeks on this same program, Dr.Klaper’s own cholesterol droped from 242 mg/dl to 140mg/dl, while a 22-pound “spare tire” of abdominal fat melted away – without dieting or calorie restriction.) He also observed that many of the chronic diseases mentioned above improved or resolved completely, often allowing his patients to reduce or discontinue their medication entirely.

 

Dr.Klaper believes strongly that proper nutrition and a balanced lifestyle are essential for health, and in many cases make the difference between healing an illness or merely treating the symptoms. To further the education of physicians and other health professionals about the importance of nutrition in clinical practice, Dr.Klaper serves as the Director of the non-profit Institute of Nutrition Education and Research. He also is a member of the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Student Association.

 

Dr.Klaper has served as advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A.) project on nutrition for long-term space colonists on the moon and on mars. A gifted teacher, humorous lecturer, and the author of successful books and video’s on cholesterol-free nutrition. Dr.Klaper has contributed to the making of two PBS television productions, “Food for Thought,” and the award winning, “Diet for a New America.” Dr.Klaper also hosts the popular radio program “Sounds of Healing,” on WPFW, 89.3 FM, in the Washington, D.C. area.

 

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Anyone try: CBlock from Absolute Nutrition

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It sounds too good to be true, but this is what the ad says: Carbohydrate Blocker CBlock from Absolute Nutrition. Absolute Nutrition’s CBlock is something every bodybuilder (or non-bodybuilder) can use! Even if you’re not dieting for a show you can still use this product for enhancing definition. If you hate cutting way down on your carbs, you’ll love Absolute Nutrition’s CBlock. The active ingredient is the trademarked “Trimplex” (phaseolus vulgaris) which has been shown to effectively prevent the body from absorbing up to 35 grams per meal of unwanted starches (about the size of a medium potato.)

 

Absolute Nutrition’s CBlock is safe. There have been no known reported side effects with this product. Order some right away and start losing body fat NOW! Powerhouse Supplements only carries top quality supplements. CBlock from Absolute Nutrition Ingredients: Trim Plex (as white kidney bean extract) (Phaseolus Vulgaris): 700 mg Chromium (as chromium dinicotinate glycinate): 200 mcg Vanadium (as BMOV): 100 mcg CBlock from Absolute Nutrition Other ingredients: dicalcium phosphate, cellulose, cellulose gum, vegetable Stearic acid, silica, vegetable magnesium stearate and vegetable resin glaze.

 

Amylase, a digestive enzyme, is a natural plant extract which helps the body to break down and assimilate the starches and carbohydrates ingested. The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, contains an alpha-amylase inhibitor, which is one of a plant’s insect defense proteins found in a number of bean species. With a reduced amount of amylase available to break down and assimilate (digest) the carbohydrates, it can have a better chance of traveling through the body without being assimilated, or made available as energy, and eventually excreted rather than being used as energy or stored as fat. “There was an element of truth in these claims: a substance called phaseolamin can be extracted from beans which, when mixed in a test tube with amylase (the enzyme which normally digests starch in the small bowel) inactivates the enzyme.

 

The untrue part was that by eating phaseolamin you could stop the absorption of the calories in your diet. The reason is that phaseolamin is itself a protein, so the protein-digesting enzymes in the stomach break it up into amino acids. By the time it gets into the small bowel, where starch digestion takes place, the phaseolamin has itself been digested, and has no effect on starch digestion. We showed this by feeding starch labelled with heavy carbon to volunteers who took either “starch blocker” or placebo capsules, and found that the rate at which the starch was metabolised was unaffected by the “starch blocker”‘, and other studies also confirmed that the in vitro effect was not seen in vivo (2,3).”

 

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Superior Products by Beverly International Nutrition

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Welcome to Beverly International! It is safe to say that perhaps 99% of all our current web site visitors are not aware that back in 1978, the three biggest names in muscle building protein supplements for bodybuilders throughout the country, were in fact, Weider, Natural Source, and Beverly International. That’s right!! Beverly International Nutrition, started in 1967, was a major innovator through the seventies and eighties and many of Beverly International’s founder, Jim Heflin’s nutritional use-protected patented nutritive nitrogen formulas were channeled to research institutions and non-commercial

 

Medical Nutrition facilities. Meanwhile bodybuilders “on the inside” continued to use Beverly International products. In fact, if you think not, Beverly International has documented record that every Mr. and Ms. Olympia winner in the 80′s was a Beverly International user. Every one!!! But something happened in the late 80′s and 90′s. Quality and service got lost in the shuffle of mass marketing. Beverly International wanted no part of it. How bad had it become by 1993? Well, it was so bad that in one study by an independent agency in 1993, only two products of twenty-one pulled from the shelf of an Atlanta Health Food store passed a rigid analysis – Beverly International Mass Aminos and Muscle Mass BCAA. Two Beverly International products were pulled. They both passed with flying colors. Nineteen other branded products were analyzed. None passed! Beverly International firmly believes Weider’s name faded in the hard-core bodybuilding industry because as they concentrated on expanding their magazines, including Flex, they assumed, wrongly, that nutritional sales and expansion would just follow suit. It did not. Weider has expanded today by buying other successful brands. Beverly International, who had pioneered the idea of legitimate products, continued to devote more and more research and product development costs into making better and better products and, like Natural Source, never pushed into the mass commercial marketing promotional arena. But in the late 80′s with Cybergenics, and then in the 90′s, first with Met-Rx, then EAS, bodybuilding experienced a veritable marketing supplement revolution.

 

Huge dollars were being spent in advertising, marketing and promotion. These companies happened to make legitimate products with tremendous ad budgets, but too many others just had big ad budgets and poor quality products. Beverly International Nutrition continued it’s low key product development and medical research approach and still made the products highest in efficacy, according to every independent group that analyzes the industry.

 

Now, post 2000, with new management and freedom from medical and institution use-restriction, Beverly International Nutrition is going to move back into it’s rightful place of product quality eminence in bodybuilding. The near 30 years of research and development in formulating protein and amino combinations that had been limited in availability due to patent restrictions, cost and sophistication of the manufacturing processes, are now ready to be released on a grander scale.

 

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Paleolithic Nutrition resources

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I’ve gotten several requests for further information on the effects of evolutionary nutrition on health so I have put together this list of resources for anyone who wants a better understanding of the subject. While I do not necessarily agree with everything these authors have to say, there is quite a lot of useful information in these resources. This is not a complete list by any means and some of these books are out of print and difficult to find. I will add to this list as I have more recommendations. Be sure to check out your local library for copies of these books and keep in mind that libraries can usually borrow books from other libraries if they do not have them.

 

This way you can “try before you buy”. If anyone has recommendations for other good books on the subject of evolutionary nutrition please email me and let me know. Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel’s work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that “our” genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven’t thought of evolution in the same way since.

 

Ridley explains that, like the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, who must keep running to stay in the same place, sexual reproduction is homo sapiens best strategy for outrunning constantly mutating parasitic disease organisms. The work also answers many other questions about human nature and society.

 

Drawing upon the insights of evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology, as well as data from anthropology, primatology and archeology, evolutionary psychologists are beginning to piece together the first truly scientific account of human nature. Very easy reading. Recommended. These are some good web sites to check out for those who would like to know more about paleolithic nutrition and health. Some of these sites may be commercial, but still have good information. Remember, I do not necessarily endorse all the information contained in these sites.

 

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