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Keep Tabs on Your Holiday Eating With CalorieKing

If you’re like me you tend to overeat on the holidays. After all, who can’t resist an extra helping of mashed potatoes and stuffing at Mom’s. Don’t even get me started on the various pies, cakes and other delicious desserts.

calorie_king_screens.jpgIf you’re like me you tend to overeat on the holidays. After all, who can’t resist an extra helping of mashed potatoes and stuffing at Mom’s. Don’t even get me started on the various pies, cakes and other delicious desserts.
If you want to keep track of what you eat, there’s a great little application for the Palm that you should check out called CalorieKing (US$30, free trial). CalorieKing is extremely convenient because it runs on Palm-based Treos. So if you have your phone with you, you can’t feign ignorance of the fact that cheesecake has 680 calories and 46 grams of fat (give or take) per slice.
Whether your a health nut or just trying to maintain your “summer weight” through the winter doldrums, CalorieKing is worth checking out. Features include:
* 50,000+ food database (the largest available)
* Easy-to-use interface
* Food and Exercise Diet Diary – Tracks what you’ve eaten, and how much more you can eat, each day.
* Intelligent personal profile works out exactly how many calories you need to eat.
* Set goals and targets for calories, carbohydrates, fat, protein, and fiber.
* Make regular check-ins and graph your progress on your Palm.
* Store food database on an SD card or memory stick. Only 500K of main memory required.
* Free downloadable databases available every week.
* Five-way navigator support for new Palm OS devices.
* New database layout makes it easier to browse.
* New search function
Save yourself the guilt of overeating and extra two days at the gym with CalorieKing.


calorie_king_screens.jpgIf you’re like me you tend to overeat on the holidays. After all, who can’t resist an extra helping of mashed potatoes and stuffing at Mom’s. Don’t even get me started on the various pies, cakes and other delicious desserts.
If you want to keep track of what you eat, there’s a great little application for the Palm that you should check out called CalorieKing (US$30, free trial). CalorieKing is extremely convenient because it runs on Palm-based Treos. So if you have your phone with you, you can’t feign ignorance of the fact that cheesecake has 680 calories and 46 grams of fat (give or take) per slice.
Whether your a health nut or just trying to maintain your “summer weight” through the winter doldrums, CalorieKing is worth checking out. Features include:
* 50,000+ food database (the largest available)
* Easy-to-use interface
* Food and Exercise Diet Diary – Tracks what you’ve eaten, and how much more you can eat, each day.
* Intelligent personal profile works out exactly how many calories you need to eat.
* Set goals and targets for calories, carbohydrates, fat, protein, and fiber.
* Make regular check-ins and graph your progress on your Palm.
* Store food database on an SD card or memory stick. Only 500K of main memory required.
* Free downloadable databases available every week.
* Five-way navigator support for new Palm OS devices.
* New database layout makes it easier to browse.
* New search function
Save yourself the guilt of overeating and extra two days at the gym with CalorieKing.

By Jason O'Grady

Founded the PowerPage in 1995.