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DESCRIPTION
HealthNut makes it easy to keep track of your diet, calorie and nutrient intake. Use it daily to reach your health goal - whether it be fat loss, muscle gain or weight maintenance.

Features:

Live Search
HealthNut comes with thousands of built-in food items, each with predefined nutrients and energy values. Browsing this huge database is as easy as opening the HealthNut bar and typing a few characters.

Meals
HealthNut lets you organize and filter your food intake into six categories: Breakfast, AM Snack, Lunch, PM Snack, Dinner and Other.

Shortcuts
Define global shortcuts to access the Search bar or your Diet Journal anytime.

Goals
Setting goals within HealthNut is key to keeping you motivated and on track. HealthNut's tolerance thresholds allow for flexible dieting - the fastest way to an improved lifestyle.

Diet History
HealthNut remembers everything you've eaten and lets you review diet changes by jumping days - or years - back.

Nutrients
Interested in protein/carbs/fat breakdown as well as calorie monitoring? HealthNut calculates those percentages for you.

Merge
Easily combine various foods to create new items. No need to get that calculator from your drawer and figure out new nutrient and calorie values, HealthNut has you covered. Mix-n-match, enjoy!

Visual Feedback
How are you doing? Instant visual feedback informs you. HealthNut can also display a summary popup with nutrient breakdown.

Nutritional Facts
The built-in food database isn't enough for you? Read that food label and add it to HealthNut.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.0.1:
  • Current day now updates properly after waking up from sleep
  • Calendar now shows correct weekdays in Eastern timezones
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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Developer:Conceited Software
Downloads:5,181
  - Version d/l:5,100
Home & Personal:Health & Fitness
License:Shareware
Date:08 Nov 2009
Platform:Intel
Price:$19.99

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HealthNut User Reviews (2 posts)Write A Review
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Dec 14 2009
*****

HBUNN  Lovely app, does what it claims to do. Clean & simple!  
(Version 1.0.1)

praisebury
+1
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Dec 12 2009
**...

PUNKISH  can't make custom recipes (check out the open source Cronometer for how to do this), which makes this program (and many other like this, such as Calories 2) a major failure.  
(Version 1.0.1)

praisebury
+1
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Dec 14 2009

MISHA  What do you mean by custom recipes? You mean foods that you custom enter, or entire meals that you can select (consisting of multiple individual items)?  
(Version 1.0.1)

praisebury
+1
Dec 14 2009

CONCEITED  You can definitely add custom food or meals. Just type their name in the bar and click "add from nutritional facts". You can also merge multiple ingredients to create a custom recipe.  
(Version 1.0.1)

praisebury
+2
Dec 14 2009

ERICHLUTZ  Also user of Cronometer... Very impressed with user interface and ease of use, and foodlist.

Lack of recipes is a drawback. I accept combination option, but cant see afterwards ingredients of 'recipe'.

Add this feature and i will buy before MU promo ends. ;)  
(Version 1.0.1)

praisebury
0
Dec 14 2009

PUNKISH  I am sorry but I see no obvious way to add a custom recipe (not a custom food, but a recipe). For example, here is a recipe I want to add for a spicy egg frittata -- how do I go about doing this?

2 large egg whites

1 large egg whole

1/4 cup onions

1 small tomato

1 5" stalk celery

2 T skim milk

1 t flax seed ground

1/4 t salt

1 t olive oil

2 T grated Parmesan

Even something simple as above is a cinch in Cronometer. I can't imagine how this can be done in Healthnut. A more complicated recipe such as an Indian or a Moroccan dish would be very difficult to create and enter in this program.

Please do correct me if I am wrong.  
(Version 1.0.1)

praisebury
+1
Dec 14 2009

CONCEITED  You want to add those ingredients from the search bar, in the quantities that you mentioned. Then select them and click "Merge". This will create a new recipe (that you can name and assign a category) with your ingredients.  
(Version 1.0.1)

praisebury
+1
Dec 14 2009

PUNKISH  Ok. I stand corrected. There *is* a way to add a custom recipe, as described by the developer above. It is, however, very complicated and non-obvious. Here are the steps --

1. First, add all the individual ingredients to your daily journal, as if you have actually eaten a cup of flour, half a cup of oil, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, etc.

1a. If requiring a custom ingredient, add a new food with its nutritional value.

2. Then, select all the ingredient foods added to your daily journal, and hit "Merge" to create a new custom food (a recipe). This will remove all the individual ingredients from your daily journal replacing them with the merged food name (for example, "Cinnamon pancakes"). However, this action, for some reason, replaces all the nutritional values with nan (not a number). Seems like a programming error. In any case, if this did work, you would have to go in and edit the portion to however many pancakes you ate.

3. Let's say you made a mistake.... instead of 1 t of cinnamon, you actually added 2 t of cinnamon. Seems like you can't edit a merged food. You can only edit its nutritional value, not its merged component foods.

Another gripe -- can't do a free-form search. So, searching for "oil, olive" works, but searching for "oil olive" does not work. Without free form search this program is very cumbersome.

The program also needs something more than just eye-candy and food editing -- it really needs biomarkers and exercise history.

Sorry, but until the above glitches improve, I am going back to Cronometer, which is a very capable program at twice its price (free). I have no problem paying for a Mac-native, actively developed health nutrition program, but Healthnut is not there yet.  
(Version 1.0.1)

praisebury
+1