Features:

• Quickly compare nutritional values of common foods.
• Just enter two food item names and click compare.
• Get comparisons for calories, fat, proteins and carbohydrates.
• Simple and nice user interface.
• Similar sites: NutritionToolbox, Fatburgr and ShugarStacks.

Check out Twofoods @ www.twofoods.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Just enter your weight and height measures into the fields and hit “Compute BMI”. The number will appear in the heart of the figure. You can choose to enter numbers in Metric or Standard measures from the tabs above.

Features:

• Find out if you are considered normal weight, overweight or obese by calculating your Body Mass Index.
• Enter your height and weight in Standard measures (foot, inches/pounds) or Metric measures (centimeters/ kilograms).
• Spanish version available (Espanol).
• Tool provided by Obesity Education Initiative of National Institute of Health.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools:  Ideal Body Weight Calculator and Calories PerHour.

Check out Standart BMI Calculator @ www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm

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Sign up and use it online or from your computer by downloading the desktop version, which is more convenient, faster, works offline and lets you view more advanced reports

Note:  After you sign up, you can skip the sponsor page and sign in from the homepage.

Features:

• Free online diet journal.
• Used by over 2.2 million members.
• Enter your daily foods and exercises and get detailed reports on calorie counts, weight loss etc.
• Contains nutritional information for 1000’s of food items.
• Use it online or download the desktop version (lets you view more advanced reports).
• Free, sign up online.

Check out FitDay @ www.fitday.com

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You can browse foods by categories (fish, fruit, beverage etc) or search with keywords. There is an “Add to total” button next to each food, which you can use to add several foods to a list and then view the total calorie amount of the selected items.

Features:

• Quick nutritional information look up.
• View nutritional information of more than 40,000 popular grocery food items and fast food products.
• Browse foods by categories (fish, fruit, beverages etc) or search with keywords.
• Add several foods to a list and view their total calorie amount.
• Similar websites Fatburgr and ShugarStacks.

Check out Nutritional Toolbox @ www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/nutritiontoolbox

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All data on the site comes form trusted sources such as United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pesticide Data Program (PDP), U.S. EPA and PesticideInfo website.

You might also want to check SkinDeep a website with similar concept but for cosmetics and personal care products.

Features:

• Learn more about types of pesticides in your food and their side effects.
• Search site database by food or pesticide name.
• Each food listing shows the number of pesticides used, their names, health effects and toxicity legends.
• The data comes fro trusted sources such as United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pesticide Data Program (PDP),  U.S. EPA  and PesticideInfo website.
• Subscribe to get latest updates and alerts about toxic foods.
• Free, no registration needed.

Check out WhatsOnMyFood @ www.whatsonmyfood.org

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The additional information like weight, sugar calories and total calories also provided.

Features:

• Visually shows sugar amount in foods.
• Browse images by food categories.
• Also shows the sugar weight and total number of calories.

Check out ShugarStacks @ www.sugarstacks.com

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In some cases, it is very important to take meds as prescribed, missing a few or taking more can lead to undesired results. While there are lots of gadgets that can be used to track medications they do not come cheap. But the good news, the person behind DidMed.com came up with a simple and absolutely free solution. DidMed provides free printable labels that help you easily track medications.

These labels can have have the days (7) or dates (31) and a slit band above them. The slit band contains a marker that can be easily moved along the band and positioned above any of the dates.

All that’s left for you to do is to print out and cut the label as instructed and stick it on your medication bottle.

Check Out  DidMed @ www.didmed.com

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Browse nutritional content of menu items by restaurant or by categories (milk shakes, sandwiches, coffee etc.) There is an iPhone version of the website, so you can access this information while you are at a restaurant.

Features:

• Look up fast food nutrition data (calories, fat, carbs etc).
• Currently provides data for popular restaurant chains like McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, Pizza Hut, Krispy Kreme… etc, with new restaurants being added daily.
• View and compare nutritional content of the menu items by restaurant and by food type (milkshakes, sandwiches, coffee etc.).
• iPhone version available.
• Similar websites: CountItOff, CaloriesPerHour and WeightMirror.

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Works easy, quickly create an account, type in your daily calorie intake goal, your current weight, your goal for weight and you are ready to go. Whenever you make an entry it will show how much you have left before you reach your goal.

The site also has a premium iPhone version that can fully synchronize all your data with your online account.

Features:

• Online weight and calorie tracking tool.
• Easy to use and clutter free interface.
• Easily see how much you’re eating each day
• Log your weight each day to see what you’re losing
• iPhone version available (not free)
• Related sites: CaloriesPerHour, Ideal Body Weight Calculator and WeightMirror.

Check out CountItOff @ www.countitoffapp.com

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The process is really quick and takes about a minute. First you need toy upload your photo and properly align your face. Next wait for WeightMirror to get your “skinny” look. It puts the new image next to original one so you can see the difference. You can also print out both of the pictures

Features:

• View yourself thinner online for free.
• BMI Calculator also included.
• Print a before and after report.
• Quick and simple.

Check out WeightMirror @ www.weightmirror.com (via matteodini.com)

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• Ideal Body Weight Calculator

Calculating your ideal body weight is very easy here, simply enter your current weight, height, age and gender and press on the “Calculate” button.

People Choice Ideal Weight: is what other people with your weight, height and age would describe as their “ideal weight”.
Medical Recommendation: is what doctors recommend as the healthy weight for your height.

Site recommends your weight to be in between these two calculations. This tool is not for children (below 18 years old), bodybuilders and athletes, who have extra muscles.

Features:

• Calculate your ideal body weight.
• Shows what other people with your weight, height and age would describe as their ideal weight.
• Results are based on a more recent data than most other such sites.
• Free.

Check out Peoples Choice Ideal Weight Calculator @ www.halls.md

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You can use Zeer to search for certain product review and see what people are saying about it, or you can join a community and express your opinion for particular food product.

Zeer also allows you to add friends and ask for advice about any food related topic, ask about their experiences/feelings for a product. Another very good feature is the ability to rate a product since it tells you in a glance what people think about it.

Feature overview:

• Food product reviews by users.
• Read and write reviews for thousands of products.
• Search for a product by name or UPC.
• Search for products by manufacturer name, possible allergies, calories or ingredients.
• Nutritional information for more then 114,000 food products, and each one can be rated.
• Join a community and engage in discussions about any topic.
• Make friends with like-minded people and share advice.
• Add products to your shopping list or wish lists.

Visit Zeer @ www.zeer.com (Contributed by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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CaloriesPerHour offers you:

Food Calculator – Calculate the calorie amount and nutrition for different type of food.

Activity Calculator – Calculate the amount of calories burned by different activities. Find out how many calories you can burn by walking or running certain distance.

Weight Loss Calculator – Calculate the time and daily calorie loss required to reach your goal weight. Similarly you can calculate the weight loss over a period of time.

Weight & Measure Converter – Convert body weight and height measures and food quanitites from one unit system to another.

So if you are planning to loose some serious weight, this is the website that can help you with planning and numbers.

Check out CaloriesPerHour @ www.caloriesperhour.com

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