The new HealthKeeper Pro software by HealthKeeper Inc. is completely new product and the result of 5 years of user suggestions for new features and speed and ease-of-use improvements. Although it is our Pro version it is also designed for the individual user and is easy enough for beginners who have become comfortable with computer basics.

The Performance Diet Pro is a software suite of 5 programs including diet, fitness, health, medical rehab, and kitchen all merged into one master program. It provides complete nutrition, exercise and therapy support for dieting, competitive sports fitness as well as health or medical rehabilitation/management. It can be used for conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, AIDS, MS, liver damage, food allergies, pregnancy, occupational injuries, aging, overweight, underweight, etc. The new Performance Diet Pro is designed for individuals and health and fitness professionals seeking the very cutting edge in weight loss, nutrition, fitness and health tracking, management and support tools.

1. DIET AND NUTRITION FEATURES
2. EXERCISE FEATURES
3. MEDICAL FEATURES
4. HELP FEATURES
5. BEHAVIORAL AND PROGRESS ENHANCING TRACKING FEATURES
6. GENERAL FEATURES
7. INTERNET FEATURES, THE NEW HEALTHKEEPER ANYWHERE
8. SUPPORT FEATURES
9. HEALTH PROFESSIONAL FEATURES
10. EXCLUSIVE HEALTHKEEPER PRO FEATURES
11. FEATURE COMPARISON BETWEEN PRO AND BASIC VERSIONS
12. SPECIAL UPGRADE NOTICE FOR USERS OF EARLIER VERSIONS

1. DIET AND NUTRITION FEATURES

If you know you need to eat more nutritiously whether for your general health or a specific strategy to manage a disease such as diabetes or heart disease, high blood pressure, etc. or, you are seeking to improve your nutrition to enhance your sports or personal performance The HealthKeeper Pro may be the most advanced, easiest to use nutrition software you can buy.

1. calculates and creates your ideal caloric and nutritional diet for weight loss, gain or maintenance for ANY diet or medical rehabilitation program. (Medical rehabilitation recommendations must come from your health professional.)

2. a patent pending graphical device called the NutriCode in a simple and near invisible method teaches you how to eat more nutritiously by graphically displaying the immediate positive or negative impact of every food choice based on your pre-set daily dietary goals. The software tracks the dietary, health, or nutritional impact of

your favorite personal recipes

your vitamin and mineral supplements

your herbal supplements

your medical prescriptions

even your water, tea and coffee and alcohol intake

3. tracks calories and grams amounts for the 4 macro nutrients of fat, carbohydrate, protein and alcohol, and tracks the 15 critical micro nutrients of saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, monounsaturated fat, sodium, potassium, cholesterol, fiber, soluble fiber, insoluble fiber, sugar, other carbohydrates, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium and iron.

4. graphically displays almost 10,000 fast foods, restaurant, ethnic, brand name and generic foods. Can add any new food using nutrition food labels.

5. graphically displays real time tallies for the caloric and nutritional impact of every food choice and graphically displays what foods are truly higher in multiple nutrients.

6. creates calorie, food type limited and nutrient specific meal plans. It has a meal planner with built-in sample 7-day meal plans for 3 different dieting calorie intake levels. Its' Copy Food Recorder to Meal Planner function will automatically convert your "best dietary days" into future meal plans.

7. analyzes your favorite recipes for their nutritional content and creates a per-serving graphic nutrition analysis for each recipe.

8. adds or subtracts ingredients and change portion amounts to build custom recipes.

9. prints recipes, including all ingredients, portion amounts, cooking instructions and a graphic recipe Nutrition Facts label.

10. shows percentages and grams of fat, carbohydrates, protein and alcohol in overall diet, foods, meal plans and recipes. Allow you to custom set percentages of total diet composition targets for fat, carbohydrates, protein and alcohol.

11. graphically analyzes and summarize your dietary progress for all or any nutrient.

12. provides one-click pop-up dietary aids and dieting tips.

13. automatically creates a personal Favorite Food list for fast entry and shopping lists.

14. fully compatible with the "Nutrition Facts" labels and U.S. Department of Agriculture's food pyramid.

15. can easily be used with dietary and exercise recommendations, recipes, meal plans, food lists, etc., from any popular diet, fitness, wellness or health program or those provided by your local health and fitness professionals.

16. easier, faster food recording --- what you consume is now twice as fast and easy with new one-click features that allow you to speed record entire meals, meal plans or foods even faster than before.

17. its interactive 5 megabyte graphic Help file teaches you all the basics of good nutrition and where to find what nutrients in what foods.

18. you can use recommendations from popular health and diet programs. The HealthKeeper was designed to support all popular health, nutrition, pregnancy and peak fitness programs such as Healthy Heart, Mayo, Pritikin, Ornstein, ADA, etc. like programs. There are literally thousands of different, safe and reasonable nutritional approaches for all types of diet, health, medical rehabilitation and peak fitness goals. If you are on one of these programs or are already working with a health and fitness professional, simply enter the nutritional and caloric recommendations that you have been given or that are contained in the program's books and manuals into your profile.

You will also be able to use that program's meal plans, recipes, etc., in the other modes of the HealthKeeper. You will soon discover that the HealthKeeper will support, invigorate and document your favorite health program's success in many surprising and powerful new ways.

19. Advanced Fat, Carbohydrate, Protein and Alcohol Grams tracking. Fat, Carbohydrate, Protein and Alcohol Gram counters are critically important to many people dieting for different reasons. A diabetic will closely track the carbohydrate gram amounts as well as glycemic ratings. A person with heart disease will closely track fat grams and the total percentage of fat in their diet. A person with some types of liver disease will closely monitor protein gram intake. Athletes or dieters on custom training or diet programs from a trainer or nutritionist may track one or more of the four major sources of calories in a diet. For years many dieticians prescribed diets using mostly fat, carbohydrate, protein and alcohol gram tracking to monitor their client’s diet progress. For the above reasons the HealthKeeper has included special gram tracking tools for those who need them.

20. New glycemic research is invaluable to dieters, diabetics, athletes and as many other individuals. We believe the low glycemic fat loss and performance research breakthroughs incorporated and featured only in the Performance Diet is superior to the currently accepted diet science in this area. The Performance Diet now provides all of the cutting-edge information and features needed for a state-of-the-art low-glycemic diet program for maximum fat loss, muscle mass increase and/or performance enhancement.

Some new glycemic features include:

1. A new glycemic rating tracking feature that allows you to use any of the three most common glycemic food rating systems, the Glucose index and the White Bread Index.

2. Step by step instructions to set up the Performance Diet Pro software for your personal low-glycemic diet success.

3. How and why the outstanding results of the new low-glycemic diets over other diets promise to revolutionize the diet and food manufacturing industries.

1. Critical new sugar and carbohydrate research to help control your appetite, get and keep you thin AND increase your mental and physical performance.

2. Low-glycemic menus, meal plans, recipes, shopping lists, lifestyle tips, etc…everything you would need if you bought a book on this low-glycemic dieting breakthrough, plus the software to manage and support it.

3. The most comprehensive lists of glycemically acceptable and unacceptable foods. These proprietary glycemically acceptable and unacceptable food lists provide the most accurate tool for determining what and how foods meet or are rejected according to the following three critical criteria:

1. Do not overly elevate blood glucose or insulin;

2. Do not stimulate Lipoprotein Lipase (the gatekeeper for fat storage in the fat cell);

3. Do not contain high glycemic ingredients, high glycemic raw materials, or high glycemic flavor systems.

High glycemic foods elevate insulin and blood glucose, stimulate fat storage, exacerbate hyperactivity, reduce sports performance and increase the risk of Type II diabetes (the United States population currently reflects the fastest growing rate of diabetes in the world).

A low-glycemic food plan is beneficial for helping balance blood glucose and insulin levels, reducing excess body fat levels and increasing sports performance. Low-glycemic food plans have been proven to reduce the incidence of Type II diabetes and to help control Type I and II diabetes, hypoglycemia and hypertension.

Low-glycemic foods do not stimulate food-craving hormones like Neuropeptide Y and Lipoprotein Lipase. Stimulation of these hormones can cause chemically triggered cravings for food and uncontrolled eating binges.

Low-glycemic diets can offer you a unique set of benefits, including:

1. does not stimulate fat storage,

2. reduces appetite,

3. enhances sports performance,

4. increases energy levels while reducing sugar-related energy and/or mood swings,

5. improves muscle-to-fat ratio,

6. enhances mental alertness,

7. allows larger calorie intake, and,

8. may help lower blood lipids.

Dietary research incorporated in the software provides:

1. Critical new sugar and carbohydrate research to help control appetite get and keep you thin AND increase your mental and physical performance.

2. Low-glycemic menus, meal plans, recipes, shopping lists, lifestyle tips, etc…everything you would need if you bought a book on this low-glycemic dieting breakthrough, plus the software to manage and support it.

3. The most comprehensive lists of glycemically acceptable and unacceptable foods. These proprietary glycemically acceptable and unacceptable food lists provide the most accurate tool for determining what and how foods meet or are rejected according to the following three criteria:

1. Do not overly elevate blood glucose or insulin;

2. Do not stimulate Lipoprotein Lipase (the gatekeeper for fat storage in the fat cell);

3. Do not contain high glycemic ingredients, high glycemic raw materials, or high glycemic flavor systems.

1. Step by step instructions to set up the Performance Diet Pro software for your personal low-glycemic diet success.

2. How and why the outstanding results of the new low-glycemic diets over other diets promise to revolutionize the diet and food manufacturing industries.

3. Everything you need for a state-of-the-art low-glycemic diet program for maximum fat loss, muscle mass increase and performance enhancement.

How the Performance diet uses this glycemic research to maximize your weight loss success.

Almost every major best-selling diet book over the last 10 years (including Dr. Atkins, the Zone Diet, Protein Power, Carbohydrate Addicts, Suzanne Sommers, Sugar Busters, Swartzbein etc.) has built its success on an eating plan for not triggering the sugar insulin response that makes your body store fat. Every current best selling diet book indirectly (and some directly) recommends consumption of foods with a low blood glucose and insulin response (low glycemic foods) to successfully lose weight and keep it off. Even the Atkins Diet is rumored to soon be coming out with a new low glycemic version. Each of these best selling diet books discusses how a high blood glucose insulin response (high glycemic) food signals the body to store fat rather than burn it.

Each book then offers a slightly different solution to managing the blood glucose insulin response challenge. Unfortunately almost every one of them recommends controlling the critical sugar insulin response of carbohydrates by either:

drastically cutting down all carbohydrates
completely eliminating carbohydrates
eating too much protein and fat.

This is potentially unhealthy, unbalanced nutritionally and may be a recipe for mortgaging your future health for a fleeting short-term weight loss. Because glycemic research was not available to these diet book authors, their solutions were structured around cutting too many carbohydrates out of the diet as a complete food type rather than a simple do-able plan to cut out just the unhealthy high glycemic sugars and cut total sugar intake to healthier levels. This is what the "Healthy Sugar" segment of the Performance Diet Program is all about — a simple and do-able plan to cut just the unhealthy high glycemic sugars and cut total sugar intake to healthier levels to help create a lasting and healthy weight loss!

The books listed above (and all the other popular diet books over the last 10 years) are owed a debt for increasing the public awareness of the critical role of sugar and insulin response in fat storage. This has paved the way for new cutting-edge glycemic dietary research on safe maximum fat loss --- the same cutting-edge research and technology you will find in the Performance Diet weight loss program!

21. If you are a Diabetic wanting to better manage your diet, and related symptoms and/or insulin levels, this software tracks all insulins and oral agents and will help with weight loss if necessary. It contains low glycemic diabetic meal plans, low glycemic diabetic recipes, the largest listings of glycemically acceptable and unacceptable foods (about 800 + foods) and sugar content in foods currently available.

It will track the glycemic ratings of what you eat using the White Bread and Glucose or glycemic rating systems. It has automatic carbohydrate gram counting as well as blood glucose tracking. It will also record weight, blood pressure, exercise, and all other food intake. It calculates daily caloric need and caloric expenditure and works with Type 1 or 2 diabetes. It also has meal planning, an exchange converter, and it prints professional reports for you and your doctor that track daily interaction of food, blood sugars, medications, insulin, and exercise.

22. If you have heart disease, high blood pressure or liver disease, there will be many ways that you will be able to use this nutrition improvement and tracking software with the recommendations of your chosen health professional.

GO TO SCREEN SHOTS OF THE ABOVE FEATURES:

For screen shots and more interactive detain on the diet and nutrition features go to http://www.healthkeeper.com/HealthKeeperIntake_Tracking.htm . This link will take you to the interactive online HealthKeeper Performance Diet Pro Help file. When you review this link section we recommend you first select the Overview button if available then the sub links that interest you. Keep in mind almost every embedded screen image you see can be clicked to open up a more detailed description of the feature area you just clicked.

2. EXERCISE FEATURES

1. automatically calculates calorie burn-off rates for lifestyle, and a list of 45 common exercises. Adds new exercises at any time.

2. tracks all important components of safe and effective exercise, including exercise type, exercise duration, heart rate, distance, repetitions, weight used, warm-ups and cool-downs.

3. pre-sets target fitness programs.

4. automatically calculates your body fat percentage using your measurements, the actual pounds of fat on your body, lean body weight, (you pound increase or decrease in lean muscle mass) and you Body Mass Index (BMI).

GO TO SCREEN SHOTS OF THE ABOVE FEATURES:

For screen shots and more interactive detain on the exercise features go to http://www.healthkeeper.com/HealthKeeperExercise_Tracking.htm . This link will take you to the interactive online HealthKeeper Performance Diet Pro Help file. When you review this link section we recommend you first select the Overview button if available then the sub links that interest you. Keep in mind almost every embedded screen image you see can be clicked to open up a more detailed description of the feature area you just clicked.

3. MEDICAL FEATURES

It graphs key lab tests, blood glucose counts for diabetics, blood pressure results and 3 types of cholesterol levels for heart disease patients and CD4 T-Cell counts for AIDS patients. It even tracks the time you take your blood glucose readings as well as insulin amounts and times.

GO TO SCREEN SHOTS OF THE ABOVE FEATURES:

For screen shots and more interactive detain on the medical features go to http://www.healthkeeper.com/HealthKeeperMedical_Tracking.htm . This link will take you to the interactive online HealthKeeper Performance Diet Pro Help file. When you review this link section we recommend you first select the Overview button if available then the sub links that interest you. Keep in mind almost every embedded screen image you see can be clicked to open up a more detailed description of the feature area you just clicked.

4. HELP FEATURES

We have an instant Help system in the software you will be using on your PC. It is focused, fast and easy to understand. It delivers clear and simple graphic depiction of all software functions in just 1 to 2 clicks. It then goes on to show you how each software feature can be used to improve your diet, fitness and health. Instead of forcing you to search though endless indexes like other programs, it offers instant help on exactly what you are doing at the time.

With over 100,250 words and lots of graphics, it is a superlative interactive diet, nutrition and fitness ebook of itself that covers the important information you will need for a successful diet, fitness or optimal health program. Professional 5 star reviews have recognized our interactive Help/health education tool to be among the best in the industry.

The Help files also will provide basic, generic nutrition and fitness information exactly when you need them with a simple click.

GO TO SCREEN SHOTS OF THE ABOVE FEATURES:

For screen shots and more interactive detain on the Help features go to http://www.healthkeeper.com/start.htm . This link will take you to the interactive online HealthKeeper Performance Diet Pro Help file. When you review this link section we recommend you first select the Overview button if available then the sub links that interest you. Keep in mind almost every embedded screen image you see can be clicked to open up a more detailed description of the feature area you just clicked.

5. BEHAVIORAL AND PROGRESS ENHANCING TRACKING FEATURES

1. helps you set specific goals and targets and tracks them in the graphing mode. The graphing mode will also show you trend and average lines as well as your actual and target data.

2. tracks your symptoms and program feedback and reactions in a journal section to help you isolate what is working best and what isn't.

3. provides a dietary power tips tool to help accelerate your dietary and exercise results.

4. prepares and prints daily, weekly and/or monthly progress reports for any time frame of up to 12 months for everything you want to track.

5. graphs your complete daily/weekly/monthly nutrition and exercise statistics, including key basic health statistics.

6. for the first time in any software, you will be able to track and graph the changes in the actual pounds of your weight composed of fat and the pounds composed of lean body weight. The two most important graphs and statistics you want to watch to find out if you are making true and honest progress on your weight loss diet or body building program are, body fat pounds (derived from your body fat percentage) and lean body weight. Increasing lean body weight (mostly muscle mass) is important because if you body fat is going down into your ideal range and your lean body weight is going up you will be able to eat more calories without gaining weight and, it will be easier to maintain your desired body weight when you reach your goal. This is because more lean body weight (composed mostly of increased muscle mass) raises the body’s basal metabolic rate (BMR) and the calories your body burns even when you are doing nothing. If you body fat is going down to your ideal range and your lean body weight is going up, you should be absolutely ecstatic. You have attained two of the three Holy Grails of honest and lasting weight loss. (The third is keeping within your ideal body fat range for 3-5 years after getting there.)

GO TO SCREEN SHOTS OF THE ABOVE FEATURES:

For screen shots and more interactive detain on the Progress Checker features go to http://www.healthkeeper.com/HealthKeeperProgress_Tracking.htm . This link will take you to the interactive online HealthKeeper Performance Diet Pro Help file. When you review this link section we recommend you first select the Overview button if available then the sub links that interest you. Keep in mind almost every embedded screen image you see can be clicked to open up a more detailed description of the feature area you just clicked.

6. GENERAL FEATURES

1. prints a Later Log for easy later food and exercise entry for when you are away from your computer for short periods.

2. for those times when you don't have access to any computer or are away from your computer (vacations, trips, etc.), it provides an off computer hard copy travel day planner. When you get back to your computer, simply transfer the information from your hard copy travel planner directly into the software with just a few keystrokes.

3. has adjustable nutrition and exercise default settings for ease-of-use.

4. prints educational menus, educational overheads and brochures.

5. fast e-mail support when you need it.

6. has enhanced U.S. and metric dual measurements for the rapidly growing number of International users.

4. has extensive journal note taking and symptom tracking features.

5. costs FAR less than other competitive high end and professional software products having comparable features.

For screen shots and more interactive detain on the General features go to http://www.healthkeeper.com/start.htm . This link will take you to the interactive online HealthKeeper Performance Diet Pro Help file. When you review this link section we recommend you first select the Overview button if available then the sub links that interest you. Keep in mind almost every embedded screen image you see can be clicked to open up a more detailed description of the feature area you just clicked.

Use the new HealthKeeper Anywhere feature to keep your Program Up-to-date when you are away from the computer upon which the HealthKeeper is installed. Use it anytime to connect from any device (PDA, cell phone, pager, laptop, palmtop etc.) that connects to the Internet from anywhere in the world, (office, health club, spa, hotel.) (The HealthKeeper Anywhere feature will only work with HealthKeeper Pro versions 3.0 or better.)

We provide 5 years of free Performance Diet online weight loss and health web site access to support you in your journey to permanently lose all of the weight you want and to build the healthy habits that will keep it off for good!

The Performance Diet is a self-directed weight loss program in which you proceed at your own pace in the privacy and comfort of your home with our electronic support available when needed from our web site. With our 5-year access and support there is no pressure, and plenty of time provided to reach large weight loss goals, survive holidays, high stress life periods, re-group, re-charge or even take a break.

One of the many reasons we provide 5 years of online access with the package is because our focus is on honest weight loss results at a higher standard. After 20 years, we know that honest weight loss results are only achieved when you have maintained your desired weight loss range for three to five years. We also know that there are many ups, downs, plateaus and "breaks" in a successful lasting weight loss process. We will be with you until you make it!

We help you to reach your weight loss goal by incorporating all the tune-ups and support necessary until you reach the higher 5-year mark. Once you reach that 5 year mark, diet studies show that you have built the habits to maintain that weight loss range for the rest of your life.

For more information on the Performance Diet online go to: http://www.performancediet.com/bestvalue.htm

1. HEALTH PROFESSIONAL FEATURES

Besides the features mentioned elsewhere on this page, the HealthKeeper Pro opens up a new era for enhanced health, feedback and documentation for all types of Health Professionals and their clients. Using the new Pro version software the Health Professional can set up the initial recommendations for the client’s diet, nutrition, health or exercise program. They then either can give the client hard copy of their recommendations and program or, using their professional discount, they can provide the client a copy of the software to use with the recommendations they have set.

We recommend providing software copies to your computer comfortable clients so the client can email, floppy disk or fax you their personal data files and progress reports. You can then load these client data files directly into your copy of the software for evaluation, adjustment or support.

The Pro version will allow up to 20 client user profiles and additional licenses may be purchased for more client user profiles. It prints custom menus and educational brochures Nutrition Facts labels and overheads to assist your clients and your health Presentations.

The Pro version is suitable for personal, family or professional use, but as with all similar health software, if you are using it for conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, AIDS, MS, liver damage, food allergies, pregnancy or occupational injuries a qualified health professional needs to be involved to assist you with personalized recommendations or adjustments suitable to your individual health circumstances.

For screen shots and more interactive detain on the General features go to http://www.healthkeeper.com/start.htm . This link will take you to the interactive online HealthKeeper Performance Diet Pro Help file. When you review this link section we recommend you first select the Overview button if available then the sub links that interest you. Keep in mind almost every embedded screen image you see can be clicked to open up a more detailed description of the feature area you just clicked.

1. Our Glycemic research, see http://www.health-runr.com/glycemic/whygiimp.htm for more.

2. Our exclusive use of the NutriCode, see http://www.health-runr.com/nutricode/nutricode.htm for more.

3. Our exclusive Calorie Balancer feature, which tells you on a 7-day trend how many eating or exercise calorie debits or credits you have left. This helps you adjust your diet to your actual metabolism and the other factors that would affect your calorie management success.

4. Our exclusive body fat from measurements analyzer.

5. Our exclusive graphing and tracking of your actual pounds of lean body weight and fat. This provides you the most accurate measurement of healthy and lasting weight loss progress.

The new Performance Diet Pro software line is far faster and easier to use than our value priced Performance Diet Basic software line and has many more features. Its screens do not look anything like the screens in our Performance Diet Basic software line. Individuals who have used our Performance Diet Basic software who switch will have to relearn how to navigate through a completely different program with many new features.

If you are wondering what Performance Diet software product line to buy (the Performance Diet Pro or Performance Diet Basic,) consider the following:

A. The Performance Diet Basic product line was designed to work best for intermediate to advanced computer users who also have some prior knowledge of the principles of proper dieting, nutrition and general health.

B. The newer Performance Diet Pro product line was re-designed to maximize easy-of-use and fast starts for beginners all the way up to expert computer users. It has more quick record features and has considerably more diet and general health related features than the Performance Diet Basic product. The Performance Diet Pro line also has special Internet connectivity features so you can keep your health program current and in-sync no matter what computer you are using or where you are in the world.

C. The Pro product line has a much more interactive and graphic Help system to assist the user with little or no prior knowledge of key weight loss, nutrition, and health principles. Its Help file is so complete it is an interactive diet, nutrition and health ebook in its own rite.

D. The Pro version allows up to 20 user profiles. (More profiles may be licensed at any time.) The Basic version only allows 12.

If your livelihood or life depends on the quality of your performance, health or appearance, and, if you are looking for the easiest software to learn and use with the most features, there is no question to it. For just the few dollars more, you would be far better off with the Performance Diet Pro product line rather than the Performance Diet Basic line. (The current price of the Performance Diet Pro product line less any promotional rebate program we may be will be found at http://www.health-runr.com/products/products.htm ).

If you want an outstanding software price value and you are an intermediate to expert computer user with a good prior knowledge of the key principles of dieting, nutrition and general health, then the Performance Diet Basic may be your choice. (The current price of the Performance Diet Basic product line less any promotional rebate program we may be will be found at http://www.health-runr.com/products/products.htm ).

The Performance Diet Pro version (version 3.0.1 and above) is NOT an upgrade for earlier Health-RunR or Performance Diet Basic versions! It is a new software product line that debuts the incorporation of many powerful new components, including diet and sports nutrition research as well as other diet, nutrition, fitness and health information. Because the Performance Diet Pro version is a new product line, earlier versions of the Health-RunR or Performance Diet Basic are not upgradeable to the Performance Diet Pro version, nor will any personal data files from earlier Health-RunR version or Performance Diet Basic versions be usable in this version.