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Get the Facts. Buy Informed. Don't be Sorry. At CyberSoft, Inc., we believe we've learned a thing or two about nutrition and fitness software. We've been implementing and improving our algorithms for nutrient analysis, data tracking, graphing, forecasting, and reporting since 1986. This page summarizes some of the things that NutriBase can do for you that our closest competitors cannot. Consider:

NutriBase synchronize your data (food logs, recipes, meal plans, client information, etc.) across all of your computers - no matter where they are located.

NB19 provides you access to the nutrient data for 800,000+ foods.

NB19 supports the lookup of 500,000+ UPC bar codes.

NutriBase uses the latest USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Release.

NutriBase uses the latest Canadian Nutrient Files.

NutriBase Personal Plus Edition is the only software priced under $5NB1900 that provides you with the NBFTE function.

NutriBase will track and graph Body Fat Percentages as well as Body Weight. View a 3-D graph> that shows you your actual weight vs. your target weight, your actual body fat vs. your target body fat, or both your body fat and body weight at the same time. Many experts agree that the best way to determine your ideal body weight is by assessing your body fat content... this method is considered more accurate than the traditional reliance on "ideal body weight" charts (most of which disagree with one another).

NutriBase provides a powerful and flexible Formatted Report generator that lets you control dozens of aspects of professional quality reports for your clients.

NutriBase lets you view your recipes, meals, and personal food items in a spreadsheet view, then rank them on-screen from high-to-low based the values for any nutrient. To do this, just click on the column header of the nutrient in which you are interested. Clicking the column header again reverses the sort direction (to rank the column form or low-to-high).

NutriBase lets you select a client and click the button to generate a Calorie Expenditures report for any client. This report indicates the client's name, their current body weight, then shows them how may calories they - personally, based on their body weight - will expend in performing any of over 90 exercises for 30 minutes. Now you can give an exercise prescription in calories of exercise a day, then hand your clients the report that allows them to tailor their own workouts.

NutriBase lets you parse all intake items into meal and/or snack tabs as you select them and adjust serving sizes. You can also click on notebook tabs to see nutrient summaries (text and graphical) for each individual meal or snack.

NutriBase can calculate calorie requirements by supporting the EER (Estimated Energy Requirements). You can set this method as your preferred method for calculating calorie requirements if you like. (You also have Harris Benedict, Mifflin St. Jeor, and direct entry from an indirect calorimeter to choose from.)

Password protection. Keep unauthorized snoops out of your software.

Now, you can import recipes, PFI's, meals, and meal plans by simply double-clicking on their file names. It's never been easier.

You can toggle whether you want to display 100 gram serving sizes to your search results window. Turning 100 gram listings off reduces the number of hits you need to wade through by up to 50%.

NutriBase features a fully customizable Quick Access Toolbar similar to the one you are familiar with in Microsoft Office. Access frequently used features instantly.

With NutriBase, you can export your data and email it to a nutrition counselor. Your counselor can import your data and have a complete (and more comprehensive) record of your Food Log and exercise intakes.

NutriBase features integrated email capability.

Source Codes identify where the nutrient data for specific foods come from. Color coded backgrounds indicate the source of the nutrient data.

Calculate calorie requirements by using the Estimated Energy Requirements.

NutriBase lets you customize your Quick Access ToolBar for the way you like to work.

The Nutrient Density View. The Nutrient Density View lets you display the nutrient values for say, 100 kcal "servings" of all fresh fruit in a spreadsheet view. This gives you an "apples-to-apples" comparison for all nutrients for hundreds or even thousands of fruits at once (NutriBase displays this nutrient data in a spreadsheet view). Rather than comparing the nutrient content of a watermelon to a strawberry, compare the nutrients in 100 kcal of watermelon to the nutrient contained in 100 kcal of strawberries.

Rank columns on-screen while in the Nutrient Density View. Click the column header of any nutrient to rank all the foods based on the value of the nutrients in that column. This immediately ranks all your foods from high to low based on their value for the nutrient whose column header you clicked. Click the column header again to reverse the sort.

24 Hour Exercise Tracking. NutriBase can estimate daily calorie usage in the conventional manner - by estimating calories consumed based on your estimate of the client's activity level (sedentary, moderately active, etc.). But NutriBase can improve on the accuracy by letting you record your client's 24-hour activity and exercise calories separately from your 24-hour food intake. This results in the calculation of two numbers: total calories consumed and total calories expended. Compare these two numbers to determine the surplus or deficit. Make forecasts based on this calculation.

Track Monitored Exercises. This feature lets you take the calories (and other information) provided by monitored exercise machines (like programmable treadmills or heart rate monitors) and enter in the results. Now, if your treadmill changes inclination and/or speed over the duration of the exercise, you can still enter the best estimate of calories burned.

Support for Calorimeters. If you use a MedGem portable indirect calorimeter or similar device for obtaining your resting metabolic rate, you can enter that into NutriBase Diet Software.

Adding foods to Personal Food Item (PFI) List now prompts for serving size. This means that you can save PFI's in the serving size that you use most often as opposed to the serving size you entered in from a Nutrition Facts Label.

% Daily Value Button for Recipes and Meals. Clicking this button shows you the Percent Daily Values for your recipe or meal.

Global Ranking Capability. NutriBase now allows you to perform rankings across the entire database. Or rank selected food categories and/or subcategories. This new ranking capability helps you find that "needle in the haystack" faster than ever.

NutriBase provides an integrated Backup program that lets you back up your recipes, Meal Plans, intakes, and all other client information and save it to any removable media. This is a very valuable feature. Click the Backup Icon to copy all the information in NutriBase to a USB flash drive, a CD-R, a CD-RW, or any other convenient media. You can select the destination folder. Take your USB flash drive or other media to another computer and restore the entire contents of your work copy of NutriBase to your home computer or to your notebook computer.

There's no sense making backups if you can't restore it to the same or different machine. NutriBase includes an integrated Restore program that lets you restore your recipes, Meal Plans, intakes, and all client information to your other computers. Insert your USB flash drive, CD-R, CD-RW, or other media and click the Restore Icon to restore all your information to your other computer. You can email your backup to yourself or to others.

The NutriBase Report Tab uses "templates" which allow you to easily configure, save, and recall the format of any analysis for future use. With NutriBase, you can select which nutrients you will include in your analysis; which meals, snacks, or total days to analyze; and the parameters you wish to include (averages, totals, percentages, etc.). Once you've specified these parameters, you can save your selections in a new template. Create thousands of unique analysis templates if you wish. The next time you want to perform the same analysis for someone else, just click the drop-down menu and select the template you want to use.

NutriBase will let you auto-record a list of foods that it will automatically record for your client (or for yourself) each time you record any food item for the client. This feature will save you hours of repetitive entry work if your client is required to eat certain foods every day (as in a long-term care facility) or if your client simply tends to eat certain foods over and over.

NutriBase will automatically select the appropriate nutrient goals for your clients based on their gender and age. Select the option you want in your User Preferences, and NutriBase does the rest automatically. We also support 1/3 and 2/3 nutrient goals - useful for situations in which you are serving only one or two meals to a population (Meal on Wheels, for instance).

NutriBase calorie expenditure calculations take into consideration not only body weight, but gender, age, resting pulse, and intensity (as measured by perceived exertion or by average in-zone heart rate). NutriBase lets you select the formula used for these calculations. You can even modify key parameters in the formulas used in these calculations.

NutriBase provides full support for simple or rigorous queries (Boolean AND searches) on the nutrient data. You can specify upper or lower limits on each and every nutrient, then locate all the foods that meet all your criteria.

Once you've created a Meal Plan, you can copy a day (or days) from any meal plan to any other Meal Plan's day or days. You can copy selected days from an existing Meal Plan to an new Meal Plan. You can save an exiting Meal Plan under a new name and edit it to be lower in sodium or fat, higher in calories, etc. All of things will save you a lot of time.

NutriBase lets you copy intakes (or parts of intakes) from any client to any another client (or clients) or to any Meal Plan. This is a time-saver because people who live together (spouses and persons in long term care facilities) often eat the same or similar things.

NutriBase let's you copy nutrient intakes from any client to any day or days of any Meal Plan. It also lets your copy any Meal Plan into any clients intake. This can save you many, many hours of re-keystroking data.

NutriBase lets you customize up to five Training Heart Rate Zones (define Zone Name, min and max zone ranges, and primary benefits). This lets you tailor your training and exercise prescriptions any way you desire.

NutriBase lets you edit your nutrient goals to suit your requirements.

NutriBase lets you export its nutrient database: you select the categories of foods and the nutrients you want to export. NutriBase also lets you export selected data from the spreadsheet view.

NutriBase lets you export your analyses into a spreadsheet-compatible format that you can email to colleagues around the world for shared post-study analysis.

The NutriBase Fitness Manager supports Target Heart Rate Training exercises... it automatically calculates calorie expenditures for each client based on in-zone training time (as well as gender, age, and body weight).

NutriBase provides fully editable formulas for calorie and exercise expenditure calculations. You can select from several formulas to use for calorie expenditure and consumption calculations and modify key variables in these formulas as desired.

NutriBase lets you organize your recipes into 26 folders, each of which can be organized into 36 tabs. The same applies for meals and personal food items.

The nutrient data used in NutriBase is featured in the industry's most popular series of nutritional information books (the "NutriBase Series").

NutriBase lets you organize recipes, meals, and personal food items into tabbed notebooks, then add, delete, or rename tabs.

NutriBase provides a comprehensive print program for helping you print out raw data from the screen. Features include print preview, font resizing, copy to clipboard, export, printing, etc.)

NutriBase tracks body chemistry data, personal information, and measurements for each client. NutriBase even lets you add things to track. For instance, you could track the number of jelly beans eaten by a client and time-stamp the moment she ate them. You can setup the NutriBase Info Tracker to record and report on anything.

NutriBase lets you rank (sort) foods from high-to-low or low-to-high based on their values for any nutrient while you select the food category or categories to rank (Beverages, Fruits, etc.), the subcategories of foods (Alcoholic Beverages, Juices, Carbonated Beverages, etc.) in your ranking.

NutriBase lets you rank (sort) recipes, meals, and personal food items from high-to-low or low-to-high based on their values for any nutrient while you are viewing them on-screen by simply clicking on the nutrient's column header. Clicking the column headers again instantly reverses the sort-sequence. This instant ranking capability lets you quickly fins your lowest calories recipes, your highest fiber recipes, or your recipes with the most Calcium, Vitamin E or Protein.

NutriBase lets you resize columns of data by letting your drag the edges of column headers. NutriBase also lets you resequence columns of data by dragging the columns left or right.

NutriBase normally displays nutrient data in a spreadsheet view (in columns and rows). Double-click any food item to view all of the nutrient data for a single food item in a single window. Click options to export the data, copy the data to the Windows clipboard, print it, or to copy the food item to a recipe, an intake, or to make it a personal food item (a frequently used food).

NutriBase lets you view your live nutrient data in a split-screen mode. This splits your screen and allows you to view data from two remote areas of nutrient data on-screen simultaneously.

NutriBase also provides a zoom control that lets you increase or decrease the font size of the data displayed on the screen (to see more data or to see what's there better).

NutriBase let's you set "thumbs up" criteria to trigger when clients achieve pre-set daily exercise and/or dietary goals. This information is displayed on a color coded calendar to provide a snapshot of how your client's days went (red when they didn't achieve their goals, green when they did).

NutriBase lets you set alarms to trigger when clients exceed any nutrient limit(s) you program for them. For instance, NutriBase can warn you when you select a food with too much sodium, or fat, or cholesterol.

NutriBase lets you modify over 60 User Preferences (organized into a tabbed notebook) to control the way you interface with NutriBase. This lets you modify your software interface to work the way you want it to work.

NutriBase provides an integrated word processor that can save files in text, word processor, or web page format. This word processor can insert page numbers and can print selected pages (cherry-picked or a ranges of pages). It also supports tables and saves files as text, RTF (Rich Text Format), and/or HTML (web page) formats.

NutriBase lets you stamp all your Meal Plans and recipes with your byline (up to 80 characters) before distributing them. (Your "byline" can be your name, your web address, your copyright notice, etc.)

NutriBase charges no annual subscription fees for continued technical support and updates beyond the first year.

The NutriBase End-User License allows you to install NutriBase to more than one computer as long as you are the sole user of the software. This means you can install NutriBase at work and at home or to a notebook PC. The Back and Restore capabilities let you transfer data from one machine to another. Your end user license agreement permits up to three Activations for three PC's.

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