The NutriBase EZ Edition is designed to track and graph your body fat content as well as your body weight. This makes NutriBase ideal for use with a variety of body fat calipers, including the Accu-Measure Body Fat Caliper or the somewhat more convenient FatTrack II Digital Skinfold Calipers. Most experts believe that the most accurate way to determine your ideal body weight is by measuring your body fat content rather than your body weight.

NutriBase tracks Food Exchanges and performs a Pyramid Analysis for you. This allows you to check for "balance" in your diet. This report covers the options contained in the My Pyramid recommendations.

NutriBase will help US Army personnel track their body fat content in conformance with the AR 600-9 documentation.

NutriBase EZ Edition tracks up to 88 nutrients and nutrient factors for 33,004 food items.

A copy button allows users to copy a Food Log to another day... if you ate the same thing yesterday, why re-enter all those foods again?

NutriBase allows you to use any of 88 pre-configures Meal Plans (eating plans containing up to three meals and three snacks for four weeks). These Meal Plans include 600+ recipes and address special needs such as vegetarian, Vegan, body-building, low carb weight loss, balanced weight loss, 40-30-30 weight loss, diabetic, hypertension, and healthy heart diets.

NutriBase provides the contents of the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Standard Release 17.

NutriBase provides the contents of the Canadian Nutrient Files, which provides most of its nutrient data in metric serving sizes.

NutriBase can track your body fat content based on US Army regulations (AR 600-9).

NutriBase automatically selects your nutrient goals based on the latest DRI's (Dietary Reference Intakes) for you based on your age and gender. You can edit these default nutrient goals to suit personal preferences or needs.

NutriBase enables users to choose between the Harris Benedict calorie requirement calculation method or the User-Entered RMR (used when you know your personal resting metabolic rate)

An Abbreviation Button displays commonly used database abbreviations.

NutriBase includes support for PCFA pie charts (which include alcohol as part of the calorie intake ratio).

Users can select which nutrients they want to have displayed in their search results. Although you may limit the number of nutrients displayed, NutriBase always records all nutrient data for recipes and food records.

Meal Plan reports will generate recipe listings for users and provide detail regarding a Meal Plan day's Food Log.

NutriBase EZ Edition will calculate your BMI (Body Mass Index) for you.

NutriBase EZ Edition supports your Palm PDA. Use your Palm PDA to record everything you eat and all your activities and exercises for you. HotSync to your PC to transfer all you data into your main computer for reports, analyses, etc.

NutriBase EZ Edition supports Meal Plans. NutriBase Meal Plans provide three meals and three snacks per day for four weeks. Import meal plans for balanced weight loss, low carb weight loss, diabetes, hypertension, healthy heart, vegetarian, Vegan, 40-30-30, etc. Each NutriBase Meal Plan is available at eight calorie levels. New meal plans can be downloaded and used in NutriBase EZ Edition.

NutriBase EZ Edition offers to automatically recalculate your calorie needs as you lose (or gain) weight or even daily if desired.

NutriBase EZ can forecast your future body weight based on today's activity and food intake performance.

NutriBase automatically offers to recalculate your food intake goals for you based on your change in body weight as you progress through your regimen.

NutriBase EZ Edition tracks the information for one or two users. Users can share their Favorites (frequently eaten foods) easily.

A new dieting tip appears on the Main Screen each time you start the program. NutriBase features over 1,000 dieting tips... helpful tips like "Cut out those intimate dinners for two... unless there's someone with you." Or sage advise like: "If, during the course of your meal, you should notice that you are no longer hungry, place your fork on the table and stop putting food into your mouth."

A Progress Chart on the Main Screen show you a bar graph that indicates your percentage completion of your weight loss goal or your body fat content goal.

All help is pictorial. We include a manual anyway in PDF format. A hard copy User's Manual is available.

Ability to sort your Food Log (the foods you ate on a particular day) into meals and/or snacks as you select them and adjust serving sizes.

Abilty to view your nutrient data and sort the food items from high-to-low or low-to-high based on the values for any nutrient.

Access 3,282 menu items from 52 restaurants.

Access 2,030 unique brand names.

Add recipes and favorites (food items you eat frequently).

Add, edit, and manage an unlimited number of exercises.

Any time you record a new food item from the nutrient database, it is automatically added to your Favorites - a listing of your most frequently used food items. Your can organize your favorites in a tabbed notebook. Add, rename, and delete tabs. Move favorites from tab-to-tab. Having favorites saves you time by keeping your most frequently used foods handy so you don't have to look them up every time you need one.

Auto-Convert serving sizes and units.

Auto-Record a list of foods that you want to automatically record each time you record any food item for a new day.

Average Energy Allowance table is used for calculating calorie requirements for children.

Backup recipes and all user information, including food logs, recipes, user information, etc.. You can use the Restore option to restore all of this information to another copy of the NutriBase EZ Edition running on another machine.

Display a chart showing your weight-loss (or weight-gain) trajectory and your actual weight loss... keep your actual weight below the anticipated weight loss line and you'll reach your desired weight by the desired date.

Drag-and-drop column headers in the search results to resequence the columns of data.

Drag-and-drop the foods you eat every day into the "Auto-Record" tab of your Favorites Manager. Any food in this note card is automatically added to each new day's food log for you. This saves you from having to go through the time-consuming process of locating and saving the same old list of foods every day.

Edit weight entries for any day of your regimen.

Enter your activities and exercises for your typical 24-hour day, then compare your food intake in calories with your activity calorie expenditures. Reports provide forecasts based on today's performance.

Establish and track body weight-loss (or body fat loss) goals for two family members (users).

Exchanges are provided for nutrient database items.

Exercise reports show you day-by-day calorie expenditures as well as average daily calorie expenditures.

Food Substitutions List is featured in the Information Section of NutriBase.

Generate a custom, in-depth food log analysis.

Generate a custom, in-depth Recipe analysis.

Generate an Exercise Expenditures Report. This personalized report shows you how many calories you would burn (based on your body weight) in performing any of over 80 exercises for 30 minutes.

Generate and print out intake, recipe, user, and pyramid analysis reports.

Harris-Benedict formula is used to calculate calorie requirements for adults.

Help is always just one key click away. Just press the F1 key any time you need help. The Help File is graphical (you'll see an annotated picture of the screen you need help with.)

Incorporate recipes-within-recipes. (Use your existing recipes as ingredients for other recipes.)

Information Section includes information for toll-free phone numbers to food makers, Daily Values, definitions of food terms ("low fat," "low sodium," "light," etc.),

Locate any brand name (or partial brand name) by typing it in.

Locate any food name (or partial food name) by typing it in.

Locate any recipe by name or by ingredient by typing it in.

Locate any favorite food (or partial favorite food name) by typing it in.

Log on new family members, delete family members, modify existing family members, and change the active user.

Measurement Conversions are included in the Information Section.

Move single or multiple columns of nutrient data as desired.

NutriBase tracks your progress and periodically offers to recalculate your daily calorie allotment as you continue with your weight loss program.

NutriBase adds any calories you "earn" from performing exercises to your daily calorie allotment. This rewards and encourages you to exercise during your weight loss program. (This, in turn, helps you lose fat rather than lean body mass.)

Print a calorie expenditures report, or an Intake Diary that you can carry with you during the day to keep your Food Log up-to-date.

Print intake and recipe reports and intake reports that include your exercise and activity summary.

Print graphs associated with the Nutrition section of the software.

Rank (sort) food items from high-to-low or low-to-high based on their values for any nutrient.

Recall and edit intakes from days in the past.

Recipe cooking instructions are in Rich Text Format (with a spell-checker and support for fonts, bold, italics, symbols, bullets, etc.)

Resequence columns by dragging their column headers left or right.

Resizable and repositionable nutrient data display.

Resize columns by dragging the right edge of column headers. NutriBase remembers the settings for you.

Resizable food name column.

Search Screen provides a multi-tabbed notebook interface to let you search by Food Name, Brand Name, Favorite, or Recipe (by name or ingredient). You can also add a favorite from scratch, view the nutrient data by food category, or rank (sort) the data based on the values for any nutrient you specify.

Select nutrient data rows in the nutrient data display with a mouse click. (View all nutrient information for a selected item clicking the View Button.)

Software lets you enter your current weight, desired weight, and how much you want to lose per week. It takes this information and determines your goal date. It also determines your daily calorie allotment.

The 3-D Chart on the Main Screen shows you your planned "weight loss trajectory" and your actual body weight. If you keep your actual body weight beneath the planned trajectory, you will reach your goal by the goal date. This chart can also display your body fat content and your goal for your body fat content.

The Calendar on the Main Screen shows you a snapshot of your progress. It is color-coded to show you which days you did well on (you didn't exceed your calorie allotment for that day) and which days you didn't do so well on (you did exceed your calorie allotment for that day). Remember, if you exceed your calorie allotment for the day, you can still exercise to increase your calorie allotment. If you earn enough calories through exercise, you can still save the day. :-)

The included Glossary of Food and Cooking Terms features over 1,000 entries.

The Main Screen shows you a bar chart that indicates your calorie allotment for the day. It also show you any added calories you have earned through exercise and it shows you how many calories you have consumed so far today. The idea is to keep the "consumed calories" indicator shorter than the sum of your "daily calorie allotment" and "earned calories."

Track and graph your Food Log in terms of % of dietary goals, % of total calories, or in terms of gms, mgs, and mcg.

Use the software to assist in weight loss, weight gain, or weight maintenance. This can be accomplished by tracking body weight or by tracking body fat content.

View data in spreadsheet format; view food items in a single-screen view.

View a nutrient analysis for the entire day or by any meal or snack. You do this by simply clicking on the notebook tab for "All Foods," "Breakfast," "Morning Snack," etc. Analyses incorporate numbers, percentages, and charts.

System Requirements:
All versions of NutriBase require a PC running Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, or Windows Vista. 1 Gbyte of RAM or more is recommended. A minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels is required, but higher resolutions are better. No Mac versions are available but you can run NutriBase (and other Windows programs) on a Mac if you are running a Windows Emulator software package (like Virtual PC) or if you have a dual boot (Boot Camp) Mac with Windows installed.