The HealthFit Counter

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The HealthFit Counter works great with our Calorie Database. If a food isn't already in the HealthFit Counter you can plug the numbers in using the handy Calorie Database.

Are you REALLY serious about losing weight, controlling diabetes, lowering blood pressure or cholesterol levels, or just trying to achieve peak health?

HealthFit Counter Software takes the manual labor out of tracking calories. Plug in the values and forget about them!

Are you genuinely tired of hype, gimmick diets, bland foods, wild claims, and wasting your hard earned money only to fail or get results that don't last? With the HealthFitCounter, you can control your diet the natural way. By simply controlling your intake of each of the nutritional categories, you will soon begin to feel healthier.

How it works:
The HealthFitCounter Software can be used on your Pocket PC, Palm OS or Desktop computer. It has over 2,000 food items already stored in memory. If a food isn't listed it can easily be added.

You can call up foods that you eat and save the nutritional information into daily totals for each of the nine nutritional categories. You always know at a glance how many calories, fats, carbohydrates etc. you have eaten at any time of the day.

• Add as many of your favorite foods as you like
• Displays nine of the most important nutritional categories
• All information "at a glance"
• Set your own personal goals in any or all the nutritional categories
• Can display daily, weekly, or monthly totals
• Displays portion size
• Includes an exercise database

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Understanding Nutritional Labels

To better help you understand the Nutrition Facts Label we've provided the following:

Examples of DVs (Daily Values) versus %DVs - Based on a 2,000 Calorie Diet

Nutrient	DV	%DV	Goal
Total Fat	65g	= 100%DV	Less than
Sat Fat	20g	= 100%DV	Less than
Cholesterol	300mg	= 100%DV	Less than
Sodium	2400mg	= 100%DV	Less than
Total Carbohydrate	300g	= 100%DV	At least
Dietary Fiber	25g	= 100%DV	At least

Upper Limit - Eat "Less than"

The nutrients that have "upper daily limits" are listed first on the footnote of larger food labels and on the example above. Upper limits means it is recommended that you stay below - eat "less than" - the Daily Value nutrient amounts listed per day. For example, the DV for Saturated fat (in the pink section) is 20g. This amount is 100% DV for this nutrient. What is the goal or dietary advice? To eat "less than" 20 g or 100%DV for the day.

Lower Limit - Eat "At least"

Now look at the section in blue where dietary fiber is listed. The DV for dietary fiber is 25g, which is 100% DV. This means it is recommended that you eat "at least" this amount of dietary fiber per day.

The DV for Total Carbohydrate (section in white) is 300g or 100%DV. This amount is recommended for a balanced daily diet that is based on 2,000 calories, but can vary, depending on your daily intake of fat and protein.

Keep in mind these recommended totals are based on your DAILY caloric totals, and shows recommended dietary advice for all Americans--it is not about a specific food product.

This information is from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website and if you need more help understanding food labels you can find a much more detailed explanation of food labels there.

Some general guidelines:

• 40 Calories is low
• 100 Calories is moderate
• 400 Calories or more is high
• 5%DV or less is low and 20%DV or more is high
• Use the %DV to help you quickly distinguish one claim from another, such as "reduced fat" vs. "light" or "nonfat." Just compare the %DVs for Total Fat in each food product to see which one is higher or lower in that nutrient
• When a food you like is high in fat, balance it with foods that are low in fat at other times of the day.
• Pay attention to how much you eat so that the total amount of fat for the day stays below 100%DV.