What's New in 4.4

Diet Power 4.4 offers big advances over older versions.

What's new in the latest Diet Power depends on what version you have now. If you don't know your current version, either look at the release dates below or start up your Diet Power and click Help > About.

Diet Power 4.4 was last updated on 12/10/07 and originally released on 2/26/07. You can upgrade to 4.4 in minutes by downloading our free 15-day trial. (No strings attached—We're Not That Kind of Company™.) We can also mail you the free trial on a CD. Click here to get the free trial.

You won't need your old version for the upgrade.

It's the complete program—just a lower price because you owned a previous version.

The upgrade won't hurt your existing records.

It will import all your food, exercise, and weight logs from your old version. It will also import your Favorites; calendar notes; and any foods, recipes, or exercises that you've added to the dictionaries. (If you don't like the new version, you can even go back to the old one and resume where you left off.)

If you have Version 4.0…

…(sold from 1/1/04 to 2/26/07), Diet Power 4.4 offers 23 advances:

• Real-time Eating Coach™ tells which foods are best to eat now.
• New "scoreboard" integrates your Food Log, Calorie Tally, Nutrition Quotient, Key Ratio, WaterMinder™, and Eating Coach into a single screen.
• Updated Food Dictionary includes latest USDA Nutrition Facts. (Competitors are years behind.)
• Free updates continue to improve your Diet Power until 2008.
• Smart Seconds™ tells which food that you've already logged will improve your Nutrition Quotient (NQ) most.
• More nimble food searching lets you sort by calorie content, description, and impact on your personal nutrition.
• Nutrient History now monitors your intake of Trans Fat.
• Improved Portion Editor logs any food by volume or weight.
• Smarter Advice Line is better tuned to your nutritional status.
• Free daily nutrition and fitness news appears right in your Food Log.
• New Exercise Dictionary offers updated entries and color-coding of intensity levels.
• Calorie budget is even more sensitive to your metabolic rate and target date.
• Expanded toolbar offers single-click access to every major function.
• More helpful Help includes comprehensive index and search.
• Animated tutorials make learning easier than ever.
• "What's This?" lets you query any feature with a click.
• Daily tips teach you fine points of the Food Log.
• Simpler installation makes upgrading a snap.
• Updated Food for Thought "knows" your personal interests better than ever.
• Backup reminder prevents you from losing records in case of hard-drive crash.
• More flexible storage obeys XP and Vista directory rules.
• Revised license covers four users in a household for the Personal Edition, 250 for the Consultant Edition, more for the Large Group Edition.
• New Classroom Edition provides low-cost licensing for educators.

If you have Version 3.3…

…(sold from 10/23/02 to 12/31/03), Diet Power 4.4 offers all of the above and these 14 major advances: Now you can:

• Ask your Personal Nutrition Agent what you like to eat that will make you healthier.
• Monitor your carbs, fat, cholesterol, or 30 other nutrients on the fly.
• Chart up to 6 custom variables of your own choosing: blood pressure, waist size, cholesterol readings—whatever you like.
• Automatically adjust your water budget to exercise temperature.
• Become a smarter eater by watching your Nutrition Quotient™, a single number reflecting your dietary balance.
• Try some of the 101 delicacies we've added to our Recipe Box.
• Choose a constant calorie budget or one that adapts to your metabolism.
• Record meals in either metric or English measure.
• Delve into our expanded Help and animated tutorials. (Our help system is now on the web instead of your computer, so you'll see every help update immediately.)
• Earn extra calories from 1000 kinds of exercise.
• Plan balanced menus by logging on future dates.
• E-mail your recipes to friends.
• Automatically adjust your calorie budget to sodium intake.
• Record your running, cycling, or swimming times to the nearest second.

If you have Version 3.0…

…(sold from 5/14/02 to 10/22/02), Diet Power 4.4 offers all of the above plus four additional improvements:

• New Dietary Allowances. Released in September 2002 by the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board, these include updated guidelines for fat, carbohydrate, sugar, protein, cholesterol, and fiber.
• Even speedier logging of meals, thanks to a new color-coded Smart Search that learns your favorite foods and understands even more clearly what you are looking for.
• More additions to the Help system, including 29 new topics, deeper information in existing topics, and the latest research on vitamins and the risk of heart disease and cancer.

An animated tutorial showing how to use the Food Log.

If you have Version 2.4…

…(sold from 4/16/00 to 5/13/02), the newest version offers all of the above plus these 14 advances:

• A larger Food Dictionary. We've incorporated 5000 fast-food and other chain-restaurant entries into the dictionary, bringing the total number of entries to 21,000.
• The WaterMinder™, which alerts you when your water consumption falls behind your goal for the day.
• The Body Log, which lets you record and graph not only your weight but any of 36 other variables—including as many as three custom variables that you set up yourself.
• The Menstrual Log (an option in the Body Log for women under 60), which adjusts your calorie budget for water retention during certain days of your cycle.
• The News/Update button, which takes you to a page on our Web site containing the latest nutrition and fitness news, as well as other features.
• Tips for logging your meals a lot faster, from Diet Power users who average only four to eight minutes a day.
• A better selection of "Food for Thought" items, including more tips on getting the most out of Diet Power.
• An improved Ideal Weight Calculator, which explains more precisely what "ideal weight" means and what to do if your ideal seems unattainable.
• An improved Travel Disk function, which lets you specify not only a drive but also a folder or subfolder for backing up your diet records.
• An expanded, updated Help system, covering more topics in greater detail and incorporating more recent findings in nutrition research, as well as new dietary allowances for some nutrients.
• The Diet History button, which opens your Diet history, a table showing your weight, metabolic rate, and other variables for each day since you enrolled in Diet Power.
• A "What's This?" function that instantly explains almost every feature on your screen—in the most lucid English you'll find anywhere.
• A change in the Health Shop button: Instead of opening a description of Diet Power's online Health Shop, the button now takes you directly to the Health Shop itself.
• A change in the $5-rebate button: Instead of opening a description of our Help-a-Friend program, the button takes you directly to the Diet Power Dealer signup page on the Web site.

If you have Version 2.2…

…(sold from 12/12/99 to 4/15/00), the newest version will do all of the above and:

• in your Nutrient History, reflect the new Recommended Dietary Allowances for vitamins A, C, and E; copper, iron, manganese, selenium, and zinc. (The new RDAs were announced on April 10, 2000, and January 9, 2001. For details, see Diet Power's news releases.)
• explain the significance of the new RDAs in the Help topic for each nutrient.
• provide a 5-Minute Picture Tour that serves as a handy reference for getting the most out of Diet Power. The Tour also helps newcomers learn the program faster.
• in the Food Log, offer Smart Search as the default search method. (You can switch back to Incremental if you prefer. Just click the dropdown button beside the search method's name.) Smart Search can find foods faster, with less scrolling. (To understand why, open Help and read the topic titled "Dictionaries, Searching the.")
• prevent the recipes you've created from being lost if you reinstall Diet Power without first saving a copy of your Recipe.fd file.
• in the Recipe Box and Food Dictionary, list the number of calories per serving in a recipe you've created, instead of calories for the whole recipe.
• in the Exercise Log, make the Duration Editor with Speed and Distance easier to understand.
• warn you not to enroll a new user with the same first name and birth date as a current user unless you want to overwrite that user's records.
• provide clickable links to Diet Power's website in the program's Help system.

If you have Version 2.1…

…(sold before December 11, 1999), the newest version will do all of the above and:

• track your metabolism more accurately than Version 2.1 did—particularly when you leave your Food Log blank for more than a day at a time.
• calculate your ideal weight more precisely.
• let you jump to a different working date by simply clicking the date on your Weight History screen—you no longer have to use the Calendar button.

Questions? Contact us.

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Last modified 00:39 March 6, 2008