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I am currently agonizing my way through software selection and have now used both DietPower and DWIDP. Setting aside for a moment that fact that DWIDP crashed almost immediately and that it took two weeks for anyone to respond to phone, fax, e-mail requests for help, DWIDP has some very nice features that are not available in DietPower. First, the nutrient search feature is fantastic. If you are short on calcium and zinc ( why is that?), you can search for foods low in calories or fat and high in zinc for example. That is very useful. Also, you can see the nutritional value of a food from the daily food input screen, before you put it in ...or decide to eat it. In DietPower you have to look the food up in the dictionary and then go to the food input...not a huge deal but DWIDP does have those advantages. Now DietPower is a very slick program that attempts to evaluate your metabolic rate and keep you at a caloric intake that will move you toward a weight loss goal. Doesn't work well if you are adding muscle (wants to starve you because you are not losing weight), but it is still very cool. It also attempts to make allowance for exercise, in terms of calories burned, which is also very cool. The nicest thing about the program is that the database hasn't crashed at all, you can include up to 9 users at one time (in case you have your entire office CRONing?), you can track your weight daily, you can set your personal daily requirements as in DWIDP, the program warns you of excess nutrients (which DWIDP doesn't), and the program doesn't seem to crash -oh did I already say that. It is a tough decision. For weight loss goals, the DietPower has that added little adjusting system where it reduces or allows more calories depending on your weight loss or gain, but if you already know where you want your calories to be, then that feature is nothing but annoying. I am not sure that this rambling helped at all but, for what it is worth. I am still trying DietPower while waiting for someone from DWIDP to call me back. Good luck and let the group know what you liked and disliked with these respective programs. Dave

----- Original Message -----

From: Suzanne Cart

CR Support Group

Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 6:51 PM

Subject: [ ] Diet Power tips

Kathy et al

If you'll click on the big yellow question mark on the upper right corner of the Diet Power screen, you'll get a handy reference tool which will tell you the information you're looking for on each vitamin/mineral.

Vitamin E sources which I depend on are kale, sweet potato and edamame. Sunflower kernels and almonds are excellent too, but calorie-laden, so be cautious there. Kale is an outstanding food, as you probably know, and very calorie-smart, too. I try to eat that everyday.

For B-12, I do salmon, and yogurt (which is a fair source.) Both of these are staples in my diet.

All of the foods I've mentioned above are pretty fair sources of pantothenic acid, too.

The kale and edamame hits the potassium. I throw a banana into the scheme of things a few times a week, and try to eat raw oranges sometimes for snacks.

Watch your weekly averages on your nutrients with Diet Power as well as your daily totals. That's gives you a bit more of a birdseye view of your nutrition intake.

Suz

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You can perform nutrient searches using the Dietpower software. Just go to the

dictionary page and click the " power foods " tab. Once there choose the " sort

by " nutrient. It will automatically sort the database by that parameter. I'll

take the Dietpower software any day.

(snip)

DWIDP has some very nice features that are not available in DietPower. First,

the nutrient search feature is fantastic. If you are short on calcium and zinc

( why is that?), you can search for foods low in calories or fat and high in

zinc for example. That is very useful.

(snip)

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