Mobile phones can help us lose weight

Mobile Diet Pal is a new Java application that turns mobile phones into valuable tools in the fight with obesity. Mobile Diet Pal is a diet advisor, a diet supervisor, a calorie and carb calculator, a true pal that goes on any diet with its user. A must have for anyone trying to lose weight!

Bucharest June 14, 2004 - Mobile Diet Pal is a new Java application that turns mobile phones into valuable tools in the fight with obesity. Mobile Diet Pal is a diet supervisor that goes on a diet with its user, counting calories and carbs and virtually guiding the user through the diet of choice. The concept of the Diet Pal is simple: as experienced by thousands of people struggling to lose weight, its always easier to go on a diet with a friend. The mobile phone becomes the needed pal, one that is almost never out of sight.

The application includes a BMI and BMR calculator that tell you if you need to lose weight, what your current daily energy expenditure is and the amount of calories you should limit your intake to. You can choose to go on one of the low calorie or low carb diets offered in the program. The pre-established diets include daily menus that allow you to eat five times a day. The menus have been calculated to make sure that the low carb diet also controls the fat intake and keeps it low. The low calorie diet is well balanced, providing you with all the vital nutrients you need. After each meal, you must introduce into the programs calculator the aliments consumed and will know exactly how many calories/ carbs youve got left.

Mobile Diet Pal was designed to offer support to people trying to lose weight, or just to be aware of what they eat and how this is affecting their weight, said Radu Iancu M.D., the programs author. The mobile phone has gained incredible ground all over the world and is the one device most people would not leave home without. This recommends it as the perfect device to be used in monitoring our diets. Through the mobile phone, the diet application can be used on a large scale and basically anywhere we go, in any kind of situation.

Mobile Diet Pal includes a searchable database of 400 items, including commercial, home-cooked and restaurant food. The aliments are fast and easy to access due to the smart search engine. In the end of your plan you will be able to see a graphic representation of your daily performance as compared with your goals. You can stop or go back on a diet at any point you want, change diets and check your results. You will also get access to useful tips that will help you during the diet.

Mobile Diet Pal can be downloaded on Java compatible mobile phones (J2ME MIDP 1.0) from www.handango.com. Mobile Diet Pal 1.1 is currently available in English, for Nokia series 40, with soon to follow all mobile phone brands version, Spanish version, as well as J2ME MIDP 2.0 version.

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About TantuM Software:
TantuM Software is a young Romanian software developing company, dedicated to mobile devices software production. The company produces both general and medical software. The TantuM Software team is created by young people from a variety of professional fields and with a strong background in programming.

About Radu Iancu:
Radu Iancu, the founder and CTO of TantuM Software, is a young Romanian MD, with a strong background in programming. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, CWRU, School of Medicine, Cleveland OH. American Heart Association granted Radu a pre-doctoral fellowship in May 2004. Radu Iancu on Mobile Diet Pal: I believe Mobile Diet Pal will be a real help to anyone trying to lose weight, both from a medical point of view and from a practical point of view. The application is easy to download, easy to use and, most importantly, makes keeping ones weight under control easy. Mobile devices are no longer just entertainment tools; they can actually help us improve our lives and this is amazing.