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NutriGenie Optimal Nutrition Review
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A refreshing aspect of NutriGenie is that, because it evolved without close rivals to emulate, it developed and retains its own way of doing things. So, for example, not only does it help users to plan and track their diet based on a (medium-sized) nutritional database, it then compares your diet to the USDA Food Guide Pyramid, to ensure you both lose weight and obtain the necessary nutrients to stay healthy. The graphical aspect of the food pyramid also aims to make dietary analysis more visually accessible and fun than other systems. Whilst this simple visual metaphor can be reassuring, the nutritional information available on any decent dieting software package means that planning a healthy, balanced, low-calorie diet isn't exactly rocket science whether you have a pyramid, a parallelogram or a rhombus to compare it tot. The tricky part of leaning on accessible visual analogies is avoiding sacrificing the richness and complexity you're trying to encompass for the sake of sticking to the "pyramid" metaphor. In this respect NutriGenie does a reasonable job, but its solution is very much an uneasy compromise between accuracy and accessibility rather than an ideal marriage of the two. To their credit, the website pretty much admits to this and promises that a new version is in the works which will strike this balance better. In many ways offering this sort of detailed nutritional information is the easy part of designing dieting software. What is far more difficult is making the user interface as intuitive and accessible as possible and providing the motivational encouragement and sense of being in control that make a diet tolerable in the longer term. These are two respects in which NutriGenie perhaps does less well, its strengths being in dietary analysis and nutritional support rather than ease of use and motivational support. In fact, NutriGenie's decision to emphasise visual means of communication and navigation rather than cluttering the screen with lots of explanatory text sometimes backfires. This is especially true when one is first learning the package and is confronted by lots of menus and icons with very little explanation of where to go or what to do. This would be less of a problem were better in-program help provided, but as it stands, learning to use NutriGenie can take a little patience. Another slight departure from the norm is that, rather than focusing on helping you build your diet, NutriGenie prefers to review it for you after you've designed it, both in terms of the USDA pyramid and estimated RDA values etc. Whilst the emphasis on how to eat healthily as well as how to consume less calories is welcome, more help in the initial stages of customizing your diet would have been appreciated. Something NutriGenie does better than most dieting packages is in looking after the needs of diabetics and others with special dietary needs - its Gycemic Index is a particularly handy feature. It is also compatible with many popular commercial diets and can safely help you follow a low carbohydrate or high protein diet if necessary. One respect in which NutriGenie going its own way doesn't do it any favours is in the lack of an exercise-logging facility. This is something the best modern dieting software programs increasingly take into account: tracking calories burned as well as consumed is really the only way to facilitate true calorie budgeting. The program offers a basic calorie-expenditure estimator, but this aspect of the package could be developed much, much further. The lack of activity logging may not bother you if you are a dieter who shuns all exercise (in which case you have your work cut out for you), otherwise it's a unfortunate omission. Likewise, the Weight projection feature is handy, but a lot of rival software packages these days go a lot further than this, allowing you to project your diet into the future in multiple dimensions and tracking measurement criteria of your choice. In this and several other respects NutriGenie seems to have fallen a little behind. Given these niggling, and essentially unnecessary, omissions, the price tag is a little on the high side. All in all, whilst NutriGenie succeeds fairly well on its own terms, in comparison to cutting edge dieting software packages there are several areas where it would benefit from learning from its competitors or else charging slightly less. The omission of an exercise logging module is particularly unfortunate. Hopefully the heralded new version of the program will plug these holes and bring NutriGenie back to the head of the pack. Click the button below to check out NutriGenie Optimal Nutrition for yourself...
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