- Calories Count is available to all users completely
free of charge!
- Diet features:
- Food Calorie Calculator lets you keep track of
how many calories you consume each day.
- Keep an online food diary to identify trends in
your eating habits and identify times or areas in
which your diet could improve.
- BMI Calculator - work out your BMI and
calculate how much weight you have to lose in order
to fall within the healthy range.
- Check out around 100 healthy recipes to give
your healthy eating a kickstart.
- Get a free diet assessment - work out from your
weight, height and activity level how much weight
you need to use and how best to structure your
weight loss program.
- Read a range of healthy eating articles that
are both interesting and informative
- Fitness features:
- "Get Moving" Calculator lets you keep track of
your daily exercise and work out how many calories
you're burning with your daily activity.
- Read a range of fitness articles that are both
interesting and informative.
- Expert Advice:
- Calories Count is supported by a range of
medical, nutritional and fitness professionals and
managed by the Calorie Control Council, a
non-profit organization established in 1966.
- Community Support:
- Calories Count provides a range of online tools
and wellness information, but does not provide any
community features.
- Help Files / Technical Support:
- A set of Frequently Asked Questions is provided to answer any queries users may have.
Calories Count is a US-based
information depository for dieting, wellness, healthy
eating and fitness. Calories Count was established in the
late 1990's by the CCC, the Calorie Control Council (a
non-profit organization established by a conglomerate of
leading US based firms who retail healthy eating and
fitness products). The Calorie Control Council advocates
'sensible dieting', an approach founded on common sense
attitudes to controlling calories, advocating a physical
and active lifestyle and maintaining positive mental
wellness. The site contains a number of useful tools and
articles, and is guided by a team of well-respected
industry professionals including leading doctors,
dietitians, nutritionists and fitness trainers.
Calories Count is provided to the general public free of
charge, and as a result the site has to be forgiven for
being a little difficult to navigate in places. Users of
Calories Count get access to a range of useful diet and
fitness tools that can be used to motivate and quantify
performance, and thus, spur dieters on to continue to
achieve weight loss. Dieters can use a food calorie
calculator to work out their overall calorie intake for
the day. By doing so, they can combine this result with
the results of the 'get moving' calculator, which
calculates calories burned through exercise, and work out
a net weight loss prediction based on these figures.
Users can also keep an online food diary, which helps to
identify trends in eating habits and pair up peaks and
troughs in weight loss with food consumed during that
week. Dieters can also get a free Diet Assessment, which
calculates their ideal weight through their weight,
height and fitness level. It would be incorrect to
suggest that any of these features are particularly
original or exciting, or that they aren't available
elsewhere as part of other resources (both free and as
part of other diet plans), but Calories Count remains a
useful resource for dieters because all tools are
provided for free.
Dieters also get access to a set of useful recipes that
can be used to kick-start a healthy eating program.
Unfortunately, there are less than a hundred meal options
listed on Calories Count, which means users will run out
of suggestions very quickly. These do work well as a
'taster' of the kind of menus that dieters should be
cooking, however, and in this respect, they are useful.
Perhaps one of the most useful elements of the Calories
Count site is the vast collection of articles, tips and
advice that are hosted on the site. We are sure that
users will find a range of supportive material within
these articles, and we were impressed by their wide scope
and general appeal.
Whilst Calories Count is perhaps not the most original
site we have reviewed, the information and tools on the site are useful to a general audience,
regardless of what diet an individual is following. That
said, there's no actual diet plan associated with the
site, so we suggest choosing a particular diet to follow
and simply using the Calories Count resources to
supplement those relating to your chosen diet. Calories
Count is, of course, totally free of charge so it's
certainly worth a try!
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