“Free, cross-platform dieting and nutrition software”

The beginning of summer is the worst time of the year for those who are a bit overweight. It's when caring about one's figure turns almost into an obsession, because everyone wants to show off a slim body in a nice, colorful swimsuit.

But going on severe diets just a couple of weeks before hitting the beach is never a good idea. Keeping a healthy, slender body is a question of practicing sport and eating properly, and now you can count on CRON-O-Meter to help you out. This simple tool enables you to keep track of everything you eat, including all the calories, vitamins, minerals and other important elements, and see the results in terms of weight.

The program features a complete database with more than 7,000 types of food and their corresponding nutritional values and also lets you add your own food types and recipes. It supports several users so that everyone in the family can benefit from the program.

Using CRON-O-Meter is as easy as entering what you eat every day and then tracking the amount of calories, proteins, carbohydrates and other elements that you're ingesting. The program lets you set nutritional targets and also create reports with your progress. The only thing I missed was a sport activity tracking tool, but apparently that's an upcoming feature in future versions.

With CRON-O-Meter you can carry a healthier lifestyle by keeping track of what you eat on a daily basis and therefore controlling your daily ingest of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and other important nutritional elements. Too bad it doesn't let you track sport routines as well!

Languages:

English

OS requirements for CRON-O-Meter:

OS: Win98SE/2000/XP/Vista

Pros

Impressive food database
Very easy to use
You can add your own foods and recipes
Support for several users

Cons

Doesn't include exercise tracking tool

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From the publisher of CRON-O-Meter

CR (Calorie Reduced) diets require a lot of information to perform optimally. In order to restrict caloric intake, but remain healthy, users of the diet must track their vitamin, mineral, and protein intakes with great care.

We aim to provide a complete solution to the CR dieter. Current open-source diet-tracking applications fall short in some vital respects. Either they are not detailed enough, or they suffer from critical usability flaws. We believe that a diet tracker must be effortless to operate for the activity for which it will be used most of the time, keeping track of the foods eaten in a particular meal.

To this end, we are developing CRON-O-Meter, an application that will take into account good usability design and dense functionality. It will provide diet advice, track consumption and exercise, and generally assist in all aspects of a CR diet.

Features:

Includes nutritional information on over 7000 foods from the latest USDA sr19 datasources.
Food editor for creating custom foods.
Recipe editor to create new foods built from sets of other foods
Import and export foods and recipes to share with other users
Set personal targets for each nutrient, or use the official DRIs
Track and chart your biometrics (weight, blood pressure, temperature, etc...).
Generate detailed reports on your nutritional information