About CRON-o-Meter

## CRON-O-Meter

CRON-O-Meter is free, open source, and cross-platform dieting software.

CR (Calorie Reduced) diets require a lot of information to perform optimally. In order to restrict caloric intake, but remain healthy, users of the diet must track their vitamin, mineral, and protein intakes with great care.

We aim to provide a complete solution to the CR dieter. Current open-source diet-tracking applications fall short in some vital respects. Either they are not detailed enough, or they suffer from critical usability flaws. We believe that a diet tracker must be effortless to operate for the activity for which it will be used most of the time, keeping track of the foods eaten in a particular meal.

To this end, we are developing CRON-O-Meter, an application that will take into account good usability design and dense functionality. It will provide diet advice, track consumption and exercise, and generally assist in all aspects of a CR diet.

### Features

- Includes nutritional information on over 8000 foods from the latest USDA datasources.
- Food editor for creating custom foods.
- Recipe editor to create new foods built from sets of other foods
- Import and export foods and recipes to share with other users
- Set personal targets for each nutrient, or use the official Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI)
- Track and chart your biometrics (weight, blood pressure, temperature, etc...).
- Generate detailed reports on your nutritional information
- Track more than one person's diet and other details in the same session

### Disclaimer

The developers of this software accept no liability in the use of this software. Use at your own risk. It is up to you to understand the risks and limitations of the software. See the Limitations section for more information.

### Feedback

This software is made by an all-volunteer effort. If you want to chip in and lend a hand there are lots of things you can do to improve the program. Besides programmers, we could use:

- Technical writing skills to make a user-friendly help manual
- Custom art work for icons and aesthetics
- Scientific accuracy -- help find errors, bugs, or improve the nutritional analysis
- A library of food entries that could be shared on the Internet by CRON-o-meter users

To report bugs use the "Report a Bug" function on the menu bar.
If you wish to contribute, visit the sourceforge project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cronometer/.
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