Some Information About DietPower 4.0

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When I began researching information for Do It The Hard Way I realized that great tasting recipes made with nutritious ingredients and proper portions would have to be the basis of the plan. No one wants to eat healthy if it doesn't taste good! I also knew that each recipe needed to contain the most complete nutritional data that I could provide. I began looking for a software program that could take an original recipe, calculate the data, and present it in an easy to understand way.

After looking at many programs, I decided on DietPower 4.0. It can, among many other things, calculate the nutritional information of user-added recipes. The green box at the bottom of each of the recipes on this site was created using DietPower. It calculates the ingredients and portions and produces a nice looking result.

Click here and visit their site. You can download the software for a free 15 day trial if you wish.

Here is my personal opinion of the software from my experience with it.

I was disappointed to find that it does not track the sugar content of any foods in their database (except for the fast food items). In fact, it lists the sugar grams of sugar as "?". This was disturbing to me considering how important it is to watch our intake of sugar, especially if you are watching your weight or have any diabetes concerns.

I emailed DietPower and asked them why they did not include sugar, and here is their response:

"If you read our Help topic for each nutrient, you'll see that sugar readings are missing except in fast foods, and that nearly every other nutrient is well represented. This is a limitation of the USDA food database that we (and virtually every other nutrition program) use. We expect to fill in sugar values in a later version.
 
For recipes, one solution is to add sugar to the dictionary and then use that as an ingredient, rather than the original entry for sugar."

I researched every program of this type that I could find, and DietPower is, despite some shortcomings, the very best of it's kind. So, once I realized some of the limitations of the program, I spent hundreds of hours inputting the correct nutritional information from the most current USDA food database (which does include sugar). I then created each recipes' nutritional data using the most up-to-date and complete information I could gather.

DietPower offers the ability to present their software for sale on websites like this one, and pays a generous percentage for doing so. For the time being, I have declined to offer this for sale here or to even whole-heartedly endorse it. I feel that the claims made on their website far exceed what the software has to offer at this time. The average person does not have the time it would take to correct and input the data necessary for this to be truly useful.

Please, don't take just my word for it. Check out their site, even download and try out the software for yourself.

Do It The Hard Way is about learning for yourself and finding what works best for you and your family's health!