Saturday, January 3, 2009

PC Dieting Software Can Help You Lose Weight

By Bill Jonsonap

Billions of dollars are spent on dieting. Most obestiry research is funded by dieting companies. Interesting to note is dieting is at its lowest level ever. According to NPD only 26% of women are dieting and 16% of men.

Whats the best way to diet? One approach that is working for many people today is to use PC software to help them diet. Of all the software on the market, one effective program is called Diet Power. Installed on your PC, Diet Power helps you lose weight on any diet"or no diet at all.

Diet Power keeps track of your nutrients to help you balance those nutrients to fight such diseases as heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other ailments.

Diet Power looks at your personal metabolism and then recommends your calorie budget. As your metabolism changes so does the recommended advice from Diet Power.

By metabolism we mean the number of calories your body needs for maintaining your current weight. For an average 150-pound person, this might be 2000 calories per day. Your metabolism may differ by as much as 30 percent from the norm, however. If youre on the low end of the range, eating those 2000 calories will make you gain 63 pounds a year.

To make matters worse, everyones metabolism fluctuates. It rises or falls as you gain or lose weight, alter your diet, take certain drugs, change your exercise routine, or catch a cold or the flu. If youre a woman, your metabolism may also ebb and flow with your menstrual cycle.

One problem with most dieting software programs is that they assume you have an average metabolism which may or may not be the case. Diet Power, however, does not assume this. - 15255

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