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| "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will." - John Atkinson |
| Here are a few reasons for selecting NutriBase EZ Edtiion:
1. You can install and use NutriBase on more than one computer without paying for additional copies. If money were no object, you could purchase two copies of competing products and install the software on two computers, but then you'd still have a major problem: you'd have no convenient way to move the data from one computer to the other. The NutriBase End User License allows you to install NutriBase to multiple computers so long as you are the only user. It also provides an integrated Backup and Restore function that allows you move the data very conveniently from one computer to another. (If a software maker claims their software can do this, ask them if it is an integrated feature of their software or if you will be required to manually copy files or purchase a commercial backup program to accomplish this.) 2. NutriBase makes it easy and convenient to move your work (client information, recipes, meals, meal plans, etc.) from computer-to-computer. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can move your NutriBase information back and forth between your desktop and your notebook PC or between your work and home PC's conveniently, quickly, and safely. Easily transfer all of your NutriBase data (client records, recipes, Meal Plans, intakes, personal information, client notes, shopping lists - everything) between two computers. To backup your data to a floppy (or any other media), click the Backup Icon on the Tool Bar and select the backup drive. To restore your data to your desktop or notebook PC, just click the Restore Icon from the NutriBase Tool Bar. That's all there is to it. When other nutriton and fitness products tell you that they support this capability, they often mean that you can follow a step-by-step procedure that entails copying specific files from specific folders, moving them to the second computer, then copying these files to specific folders in a specific way... not something you should try if you are inexperienced, tired, or in any kind of hurry. And NutriBase lets you determine where you will store your backups. 3. Support for Palm PDA's. With NutriBase, you can use your Palm PDA to record food and exercise intakes, then HotSync to your Windows PC to generate in-depth reports using NutriBase for Windows. You can also transfer a nutrient database and exercise database to your client's Palm PDA's. Let them record their own food and exercise intakes for any period of time. When they HotSync their PDA's to your PC, you've captured all their intakes in your copy of NutriBase for Windows. None of our competitors provide PDA support for data entry into their software. 6. NutriBase provides the ability to track intake and calorie expenditures separately. Most nutrition and fitness software packages allow you to record a client's daily calorie intake and expenditures by asking you to estimate the client's "Activity Level." Based on your estimates of the client's activity level, the software estimates calorie expenditures for that client. NutriBase supports this method, as does its competitors. But NutriBase provides another way of recording your client's daily nutrition and fitness. It's called the 24-hour Activity Intake. When you select this option, NutriBase asks you to record a 24-hour activity intake for the client. Since NutriBase also tracks your client's food intake, you have two important numbers at the end of the day: the number of calories burned and the number of calories taken in. By comparing these two numbers, you come up with a deficit or a surplus of calories for that day. And from this information, NutriBase will forecast near-future body weights based on today's behavior. 7. Quality of the Nutritional Information. some of our competitors use full-page, four-color advertisements to let you know that they provide the world's most comprehensive and highest quality nutrient database. Here are five things to consider: One, they can't both be right. Two, they could both be wrong. Three, NutriBase tracks more food items than either company. Four, NutriBase tracks more nutrient variables than either company. And five, NutriBase is the only high-end nutrition software package whose data has been published in the top-selling series of nutritional information books on the market today. 8. NutriBase has sold three million nutritional information books. The NutriBase Series of books is based on the NutriBase nutrient database and are published by Avery, a member of Penguin Putnam, Inc. They are the most comprehensive nutrient information books on the market today. As the top-selling series of nutritional information books in the world, NutriBase data has earned a high degree of validation for its nutrient database. 9. Only NutriBase provides nutrient data for more than 1400 different brand name foods and restaurant menu items. Compare this wide variety of brand name products with any other product on the market. With a wider variety of brand names, you will find a wider variety of food items. 10. NutriBase gives you tremendous control over your nutrient data. Astonishing as it may seem, competing products only let users view the nutrient data from their nutrient database for one food item at a time. Looking at nutrient data for one food item at a time is like trying to see what's in a gigantic database by peering through a tiny pinhole. NutriBase gives you the ability to view nutrient data in a spreadsheet view to see the data for many food items at the same time. (The "spreadsheet view" is a tabular format of columns and rows.) You can drag-and-drop column headers to resequence the columns. Drag the right edge of any column header to resize the column width (NutriBase remembers the new settings for you). Double-click any food item to see all the nutrient data for that one item in a single-screen view. Mark a block of data on the screen and save it to a file or print it. These features are not found in any other nutrition software package at any price. 11. NutriBase facilitates the creation of recipes. A "recipe" is a combination of food items and other recipes. For instance, a recipe could consist of water, seasonings, meat, vegetables and another recipe (like your "Low Sodium, Low-Fat Soup Stock"). You can add recipes as a recipe (one entry) or as a listing of the added recipe's ingredients. You can scale your recipes to feed more (say, 500 people) or fewer people. You can Recipes serve as building blocks for Meals. By the way, NutriBase includes hundreds of ready-to-use recipes for a variety of special needs, including Vegan, vegetarian, diabetic, healthy heart, hypertension, balanced weight loss, low carb weight loss, 40-30-30 weight loss, pre-competition body building, body building maintenance, and high-protein body building. 12. The NutriBase Meal Plan capability saves time and money. A Meal Plan is a collection of up to 168 meals and snacks (six meals a day for 4 weeks). Use Meal Plans to serve a large number of clients with a wide variety of needs. All foods are organized by meals and snacks... in checklist format. Although the EZ Edition does not support the creation of Meal Plans, it does let you import them, use them, and use the 600+ recipes as desired. If it is important for you to be able to create your own Meal Plans, consider the consumer editions of NutriBase featured at www.dietsoftware.com. 13. NutriBase provides database Ranking capability. A ranking is a method of sorting your data from high-to-low (or from low-to-high) based on its values for any nutrient or variable. Select a nutrient or variable. Select whether you wish to sort the food items from high-to-low or from high-to-low based on their value for the selected nutrient or variable. Click the OK Button to display search results to the screen and note that the first nutrient column is the one you selected to rank. You can also sort columns of data on-screen. Click the column header for the nutrient you want to sort... NutriBase ranks all the foods in your list from high-to-low based on the food's values for that nutrient. Click the header again to reverse the sequence. 14. NutriBase displays the total calories and the "PCFA Ratio" for every recipe, intake, and Meal Plan. A "PCFA ratio" (Protein-Carbohydrate-Fat-Alcohol Ratio) of 15-55-30-0 means that 15% of calories from the recipe, intake, or Meal Plan comes from Protein, 55% from Carbohydrates, and 30% from Fat. If you know the calorie level and the PCFA ratio for a diet, you probably already know the two most important things about that diet. If you prefer, you can tell NutriBase to display the CPFA Ratio instead (just click this option in the User Preferences> section). 15. NutriBase provides detailed nutrient information for enteral and parenteral products. These "medical nutritionals" are the tube feed and nutritional injection products used in hospitals and other care facilities. This information helps you compare the various mainstream products and educate the people involved in their use. It also simplifies the integration of these medical nutritionals into your Meal Plans for your special needs. We've included the product lines from all the major providers of these products, including B. Braun/McGaw, Mead Johnson Nutritionals, Nestlé Clinical Nutrition, Novartis (Sandoz), R&D Laboratories and Ross. NutriBase includes information for medical nutritionals for Carbohydrate and Protein Supplements, Critical Care/Healing Support, Diabetes/Glucose Intolerance, Elemental Diet, Gastro-Intestinal Support, Hepatic Support, Intact Protein Diet, Vitamin and Mineral Supplements, Parenteral Products (Nutrient Injections), Pediatric, Pulmonary Support, and Renal Support. 16. NutriBase provides two special food categories: "Vitamin and Mineral Supplements" and "Sports and Diet Nutritionals." The first category provides detailed information for the major off-the-shelf vitamin and mineral supplements. The Sports and Diet Nutritionals category includes nutrient data for 600+ food items that include exercise recovery drinks, power bars, body building shakes and formulas, and liquid meals. 17. Save inputting time by auto-recording a pre-determined list of foods that you want to automatically record each time you record any food item for a client. This way, each time you record an intake for a new day for a particular client, NutriBase will automatically record the foods you specified for that client. You can define an auto-record list for every client if you wish. 18. NutriBase is a solid value. Even if you disregard the clear superiority of NutriBase, you'll see that NutriBase is still the best value in nutrition software. With NutriBase, there are no on-going annual fees for continued product support. CyberSoft provides toll-free technical support for NutriBase that never expires. NutriBase also provides downloads for 19. NutriBase provides the nutrition software industry's best product support. We provide a toll free phone number for you to call with questions. You can use this toll free number for as long as you use NutriBase. (And remember, if you have to pay for the phone call - it isn't free.) Our tech support people can answer any question you can ask them about NutriBase quickly and concisely. We provide 24/7 email support for you to use any time to ask us anything you want to about NutriBase. We include an 88-page User's Manual with step-by-step instructions for every capability of the software. We include an Information CD that provides narrated videos showing you how to use the major features of NutriBase. And finally, the NutriBase Help File provides over 500 topics of help support. Each window in NutriBase offers a Help Button that gives you context-sensitive help for the screen you are working in.
20. Today's Dietitian Magazine (May 2002) says: "NutriBase is a dream come true... The program is detail oriented and offers almost unlimited capacity for customization... other programs can't compare... it does just about everything a dietitian could want."
21. Jordan Gold's ninth and latest book, "Get Fit with Technology: How to Lose Weight Using Your PC," provides information regarding over 30 nutrition software products. This book says "NutriBase is much more powerful than competing products, with more reports, options, and bells and whistles than its competition... NutriBase is nutrition software on steroids."
22. And last - but not least - our 20,000+ customers like our product. Visit our testimonials page to see what they've told us about NutriBase.
We could go on, but we think we've made our point. :-) |
