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DietTelevision: The mother of all diet sites
By Rafe Needleman – June 25, 2007, 2:45 PM PDT
A new diet site and social network is launching this week: DietTelevison. It looks like a good resource for people trying to lose weight. It has a ton of diet-related information, and a social network to give dieters a support group.
As an information source, it's very rich. You select your tolerance for various diet aspects (your affection for bread, and for meat, and your sensitivity to affordability and for restaurant-friendly plans, for example), and the site gives you a list of diets that match your wishes. While the site doesn't have arrangements with the people who run the big diet programs (like Atkins or Weight Watchers), it will display them as options, and give you meal plans that are supposed to match their guidelines.
Users can track their intake by typing their meals into the site. There's also supposed to be a voice-recognition system you can call in to report on your meals, although for the life of me I couldn't find the call-in number on the site. (Personally, I would prefer Nutrax's cameraphone recording system.)
The site will advise you on exercise in much the same way: You tell it what you want to do (choices include variations on working out, running, and activities like yoga), and it will come up with a list of weekly exercises for you. However, for selecting a diet plan, the system doesn't take your preferred physical activity level into account. That looks like an oversight to me.
And there's a big social angle: you can find people with similar goals and support each other (although when you first connect to the support system, the way it shows photos of other members makes it feel more like a dating service that a support network). You also get badges for various things, like being a parent, losing five pounds, loving junk food, etc. Users can also award badges to others.
The service has a lot of information on it and is cleanly organized. My only concern -- and I only used the system for more minutes so I may be wrong on this -- is that there is so much information that DietTelevision tries to collect and manage that users might find it overwhelming.
But I think this could be a great research tool for finding diet plans. I really like how the system ranks plans based on what you like to eat.
DietTelevision: The mother of all diet sites
By Rafe Needleman – June 25, 2007, 2:45 PM PDT
A new diet site and social network is launching this week: DietTelevison. It looks like a good resource for people trying to lose weight. It has a ton of diet-related information, and a social network to give dieters a support group.
As an information source, it's very rich. You select your tolerance for various diet aspects (your affection for bread, and for meat, and your sensitivity to affordability and for restaurant-friendly plans, for example), and the site gives you a list of diets that match your wishes. While the site doesn't have arrangements with the people who run the big diet programs (like Atkins or Weight Watchers), it will display them as options, and give you meal plans that are supposed to match their guidelines.
Users can track their intake by typing their meals into the site. There's also supposed to be a voice-recognition system you can call in to report on your meals, although for the life of me I couldn't find the call-in number on the site. (Personally, I would prefer Nutrax's cameraphone recording system.)
The site will advise you on exercise in much the same way: You tell it what you want to do (choices include variations on working out, running, and activities like yoga), and it will come up with a list of weekly exercises for you. However, for selecting a diet plan, the system doesn't take your preferred physical activity level into account. That looks like an oversight to me.
And there's a big social angle: you can find people with similar goals and support each other (although when you first connect to the support system, the way it shows photos of other members makes it feel more like a dating service that a support network). You also get badges for various things, like being a parent, losing five pounds, loving junk food, etc. Users can also award badges to others.
The service has a lot of information on it and is cleanly organized. My only concern -- and I only used the system for more minutes so I may be wrong on this -- is that there is so much information that DietTelevision tries to collect and manage that users might find it overwhelming.
But I think this could be a great research tool for finding diet plans. I really like how the system ranks plans based on what you like to eat.