Delphi Diet Tool is for tracking charting,measuring,and analyzing your diet needs. Calculates your calorie needs based on your personal body and age information. Forecasting of weight loss based your own personal information is possible. Clicking on 1 pound, will tell you how many calories a day to eat, to loose a pound in a week. A compensation for activity level, is provided in the personal data section of the program. The help section provides a description of what each part of the program does. The built in browser can take you to the USDA's huge 10,000 food idem data base. Also a Swiss food data base is provided. This section of the program can be updated without a program update, as its external source is on the net. Two chart buttons let you see a months results at a time. Clicking on any day will pull that data for viewing. Your loss since start of the diet is displayed in the results panel. BMI category is the WHO-CDC over age 18 based structure.

The Mifflin equation is used for metabolic calculations.

Quote: "The Sept 2003 issue of the JADA (Frankenfield DC, Rowe WA, Smith S, Cooney RN, Validation of several established equations for resting metabolic rate in obese and nonobese
people, J Am Diet Assoc 2003; 103:1152-1159). Their conclusions were stated as such: "..the Mifflin standard provided an accurate estimate of actual resting metabolic rate in the largest percentage of nonobese and obese individuals and therefore deserves consideration as the
standard for calculating resting metabolic rate in obese and nonobese adults. "

This the method used by Delphi Diet Tool for metabolic calculations.