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Monday, December 17, 2007

Just in Time for New Year's

"Eating Coach" Comes to Your Computer

DANBURY, Conn. (Monday, Dec. 17)—DietPower, Inc. has launched an “eating coach” for the personal computer that helps dieters control their weight and nutrition without giving up favorite foods. Unlike earlier weight-loss tools, the new program gives personalized advice “on the fly” as users log their meals.

“DietPower 4.4 is the only software we know that shows which of your favorites are best to eat right now,” says CEO Terry Dunkle. “It even pinpoints the food you’d be smartest to have ‘seconds’ in.”

The new program reveals your intake of 33 nutrients as you record meals. Because it fine-tunes its recommendations as it “learns” your metabolism, it’s the only program on the market whose makers guarantee reaching your goal weight on your target date if you stick to your calorie budget. It also recommends foods you like that will improve your odds against heart disease, diabetes and other killers.

The “eating coach” and “smart seconds” functions are among 23 new features in the latest version of a program that began in 1988 when Dunkle was a Reader’s Digest editor looking for a quicker way to count calories. Besides inventing DietPower, he used his editorial experience to make it easy to learn. The $49.99 program also:

• Gives you a Nutrition Quotient (NQ) showing how intelligently you’ve been eating lately.
• Logs a meal in less than a minute, and fills in data for days when you're too busy to log.
• Analyzes nutrients in 21,000 foods and recipes (including your own).
• Awards extra calories for 1000 kinds of exercise.
• Delivers advice and inspiration tailored to your goals.
• Brings you daily nutrition news from national award-winning editors.

DietPower’s scientific advisors include Ann Coulston, past president of the American Dietetic Association; Robert Epstein, founder of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, and Barry Franklin, former president of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Version 4.4 requires Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, ME, or 2000; 256 megabytes of memory, and one gigabyte of disk space. It works either by itself or with Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, American Heart Association or any other diet plan. The program comes with a one-year no-hassle money-back guarantee, animated tutorials, 500 pages of help covering 100 nutrition-related diseases, and free e-mail and telephone support.

Anyone can get a free, no-strings, 15-day trial of DietPower on a CD-ROM or by downloading from www.dietpower.com. More information is available from the web site or by phoning 800-852-8446.