Media Reviews for the Performance Diet

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Health-RunR is a diet, fitness and health-maintenance program that will coordinate your nutritional needs, physical fitness and weight management goals... If you are looking for a route to better health, here's the start point.

* The 5-Star Editor's Choice award is the highest rating that the ZDNet reviewers give any software product.

Health-RunR Performance Diet is a diet, fitness, and health-maintenance program that will coordinate your nutritional needs, physical fitness, and weight management goals. You'll get started quickly with the clear tutorial that walks you through the basic and advanced features. Then set up your physical profile with your current weight, measurements, fitness parameters, and goals.

The program lets you record your nutrient intake easily by picking from a detailed database of more than 10,000 foods in the registered version. You see the balance of protein, fats, carbos, and other nutrients in easy-to-understand color-coded graphics. There is a recipe keeper, menu planner, and a comparison module to fairly balance one food against another. The Calorie Balancer gives you a runing total of calories over the last seven days so you always know if you're ahead or behind on consumption. You also get to record your exercise and graph progess in terms of a variety of parameters. The help is detailed so you'll be able to take advantage of the many powerful features.

The demo lets you use the program 20 times and only included 300 foods in the database. If you are lookinf for a route to better health, here's the start point.

New WOW review from Yipee.net shareware! Wow! I'm impressed, never before has so much hard-work been put into a diet program. I'm impressed! HealthKeeper Performance Diet is a super comprehensive program for monitoring what you should and shouldn't be eating in order to lost weight. It has several different built-in diets so you can choose the one that best suits you, as well as a full range of monitoring programs to keep an eye on your progress. Of course, just like in the real world you can only lose weight with constant effort and fitness, as well as a strict diet! HealthKeeper Performance Diet is a great program for anyone looking to lose a little weight!
Licence:	Limited Use Specified	Version:	3.0.6e
OS:	Win 95/98, Win 2000, Win NT	Date:	2001/02/15
Developer:	HealthKeeper Inc.	Size:	11.20 MB
Yippee Ratings Breakdown (5 is best): Installation: 4 Interface: 4 Functionality: 4 Documentation: 4

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Health-RunR is a sophisticated program to manage nutrition, exercise and physical therapy under many conditions, ranging from a simple diet to fitness, to competitive sports, to rehabilitation, to many diseases and special conditions, such as pregnancy, for example. Too many are the program's options to be listed in so small space; Health-Runr works divided in many features. The Diet and Nutrition feature is able to create any personal diet, for example, caloric and nutritional, showing graphically the impact (positive or negative) of any food choice. You can add to the 10000-plus food database any new food you want. And this is only a small sample of the zillion options this feature offers. The Exercise feature offers a calorie burn-off calculation for lifestyle, body fat percentage calculation, and so on. In the Medical section you can record and graph lab tests, such as blood glucose, blood pressure, cholesterol, etc. Even if Health-Runr is so huge and overwhelming, it is surprisingly friendly to use, thanks to the great Help program (it fits better than "file"), and to the many explanations accompanying every pointing of mouse.

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From the File Mine Shareware reviewer:

"What helps you lose weight, get in shape, and improve your lifestyle? Motivation, perhaps? Graphical representations of your progress? How about knowing exactly what everything you eat means to your overallhealth? If you're trying to achieve better health for sports performance, weight loss, or overall well-being, and you like abundant statistics, HealthRunR is a powerful helper in reaching your goals."

The cornerstone of HealthRunR's effectiveness is the program's focus on food as fuel -- not as an emotional, feel-good thing -- that can help or harm you, depending on how you use it. You can create a health and fitness plan based on your needs, lifestyle, diet, and medical conditions. And this plan can be fine-tuned as you progress. Configuring the program to work with your vital statistics is easy with dialogs, radio buttons, and check boxes to enter information about yourself. Helpful explanations of each item you're entering make clear the differences between being slightly active and moderately active, for instance, so you're able to make well-informed choices on the items you enter. Among the items you'll need to be prepared to divulge are your age, height, weight, activity level, target weight, and -- horror of horrors -- body measurements. Secure the assistance of a non-judgemental friend for this part. The program will roughly calculate your body-fat percentage -- it's fairly accurate, but keep in mind that even the most accurate methods of measuring body fat can be up to 5 percent off the mark in either direction.

Once entered, your information is used to generate a nutritional plan that's based on generally-accepted guidelines of healthful eating, including nutrients you may need to ingest as supplements -- especially if your current eating plan is highly restricted or specialized, as it would be if you're a vegetarian, vegan, diabetic, or sodium-restricted. Everything you eat as the day progresses can be tracked using a drag-and-drop interface that gives you instant feedback on the positive and negative effects of the food you're consuming. You can even track vitamin and herb intake, as well as coffee, tea, and alcohol consumption. This dietary plan is then integrated with your exercise log, where you can record any activity you're using for weight loss, rehabilitation, or sports performance. Perhaps it's my 15 years as a fitness instructor coming out, but I'm particularly impressed with the detail and abundance of information in the exercise portion of HealthRunR -- you can view the calorie-burning rates of any activity you do, and get a much clearer picture of the benefits of your exercise.

Since even the most detailed plan won't cook the meals for you, HealthRunR includes meal planning, recipe recording, and shopping lists to help you cook the healthful meals it recommends. You can heed advice from popular dietary programs, too, and keep your eating on an even keel with a seven-day trend view that shows how many calorie credits or debits you have. The best recommendation I can give HealthRunR is that in the two weeks I used the program to monitor my nutrition and exercise, I lost six pounds -- statistics, schmatistics, that's the icing on the cake...

Once you're past the enormous download, you'll have a full 30 days to evaluate HealthRunR and decide if you're endeared to or scared by its plethora of details and statistics. I'm seriously endeared, so watch out New York Marathon -- here I come (in a newly svelte and healthy state)!

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Health RunR is a powerful application designed to track the performance of your diet and exercise program. Overall, it will help you meet each of your fitness, nutritional and wellness goals. The program works by intuitively customizing itself to your given personal data. Health RunR then covers virtually every aspect of your program, from daily exercises to food intake. Its feature-packed interface allows you to efficiently record and analyze the information. In addition to its standard components, you'll find concise and printable graphs for examining your progress.

Health RunR's comprehensive nutritional features perfectly complement any diet. In fact, it includes a database of over 10,000 meals. You'll be able to view and compare various nutritional values, such as fat content and carbohydrates, so you can better follow your diet. You'll also find a kitchen aide that provides helpful recipes and nutritional information. You can then use a menu planner for cooking or ordering healthful meals. There's even a "calorie balancer," which lets you manage calorie debits and credits over a seven-day period.

For exercising, Health RunR helps you monitor performance and specific calorie burn off rates. You can enter a range of information for each session, including heart rate, distance, weight, sets, repetitions and more.

Following regimens is difficult. Fortunately, Health RunR provides both the practical and motivational support to help you follow through with a program. This shareware version is fully functional, but restricts the number of times you can use the program. It also limits the meal database.

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December 20th, 2001

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Performance Diet Pro

Whether you're trying to slim down, or you have negative reactions to certain foods, or you're training for a citywide marathon, sometimes you need help monitoring your nutritional intake and the progress of your fitness program. Performance Diet Pro includes diet, fitness, and medical programs to help keep you on track. A profile stores personal information such as height, weight, measurements, body fat, and
nutrition choices. You can track the qualities of the food you ingest to assess its positive or negative impact on your pre-set daily goals. The Exercise Recorder automatically calculates calorie burn-off rates and tracks the components of your exercise regimen (exercise duration, heart rate, sets, warm-ups, etc.). Other features include tracking medical information (blood pressure, cholesterol, CD4 T-Cell count, etc.).

Price: Free trial; $40 to purchase

Download Performance Diet Pro now at:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,8413,tk,hsx,00.asp

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