Slimming down goes mobile
The banner reads:
"Never miss a bite. Nutritional tracking at the speed of a shutter. Now you can track how much you eat and how often you exercise simply by using your camera phone."
And it works with any camera phone. Yes, trust the Internet technology to live up to its claim of providing convenience to the highly mobile, busy professionals. This time, the Internet is treading the treadmill.
The goal of this innovative technology is to eliminate the need for cumbersome written diet logs. The diet conscious can snap a picture of their meal and immediately send the photo to an online food diary, in the website Nutrax.com.
Some snaps are needed, as the Nutrax system gets smarter with each picture. Users can enter an entire meal or workout with a single mouse click while the system studies the contents of each photo.
It takes further "workout" as there are proactive instructions, tools and guides to help users determine the effects – or side effects, for that matter – of any diet. The guides apply to persons who are losing weight, on athletic training, or the majority who wishes to improve all-around health.
The website then dispenses personalized alerts, tips, and suggestions to advise users on whether their diet will keep them fit or fat.
Nutrax is no hit-and-miss, trial-and-error effort on the part of the users – at least that’s what Nutrax claims as they have a resident nutrition expert, Leslie Bonci MPH, RD. "Tracking what you eat is essential for results, but most people are too busy for a diet log. Nutrax is something you can actually stick with," says Bonci.
With subscription to the "do-it-yourself" program, a user can avail of photo logging, access to a database containing 26,000-food items, and all of the tools needed to understand the user's diet. In addition, there are 0regular photo diary reviews and 24x7 availability from a personal nutritionist – for a price, of course.
One more thing, users are up to learning about "Nutritional Intelligence."

