What People Are Saying About DINE Healthy

"The DINE System is objective, analytical, and enlightening for the person who wants facts and not fads and who want results and not rationalizations. It is fun, it is informative and cost less than the average physical exam with routine tests."

"...the program is very easy to use... I became captivated by the analysis."

"Unlike a lot of other "educational" software we in college, DINE Healthy was extremely intuitive, and just stayed out of the way and let us work. We used it to track diet and nutritional habits, and to analyze the effects of particular diet behaviors. Not only did using the software allow me to realize the goal of tracking my activities and progress, but it also helped me develop habits I still carry with me long after the class experience."

"Approximately 2000 students use DINE Healthy per year in our introductory health course... our evaluation indicates that 87% of the students reported healthier eating habits and that DINE Healthy was a motivational and practical tool for behavioral change."

"I find that the DINE System can excite people about nutrition and turn them on to healthy eating. The DINE System has its own satiety value...it satisfies those with nutrition info hunger and influences what they choose the very next time they eat! The graphics are alive, realistic and fun to read!"

"Of all the software self-help programs on health topics, yours is the most practical daily monitoring system for those who want to understand or need to know the nutritional constituents of their daily intake."

"When I was released from the hospital after a severe illness, I used DINE to monitor my special diet. DINE helped me eat a healthy diet, which speeded my recovery. DINE is a wonderful program!"

"DINE Healthy helped us understand just what we had been taught, because our assignment was to use the DINE program and live by its information to reach certain goals and hopefully change for the better by the end of the term. This made all the conceptual information have real applicability to my life and thus helped me understand it better. Today, I still live by principles and information based on things I learned from using DINE over a decade ago."

"I do not recommend other nutrient analysis services because they are not accompanied by the information necessary to healthily apply computerized recommendations. I found DINE's nutrient information clearly written, accurate, and well documented."

"DINE Healthy has been very helpful for both my family and in my work. The program has given my clients new insights into their eating habits. It made them realize what areas in their diets needed work and then helped them to make those changes accordingly. My clients are now on their way to establishing life long healthy eating behaviors."

"I was on crutches at the time due to having a bone tumor removed from my hip three months prior to taking the class. Even though I was limited in the physical activities I could participate in while taking this class, I still participated in the DINE Healthy project. While working on the project, I jokingly said to my friend, "Walking on crutches should be listed as a cardiovascular activity." To my surprise, the software calculated the amount of calories I burned walking on crutches. I am very impressed with how comprehensive this software is."

"Purchasing the DINE Healthy program may have been the best thing I have ever done to enhance my athletic career. As a professional football player you are always looking for an edge. Proper nutrition, I discovered, was the key for me to elevate my performance. In eight months using the DINE Healthy system I lost 22 lbs. of body fat and reduced my body fat percentage from 14% to 4.5%. What was more important though, was that I was able to gain about 8 lbs. of lean muscle and my strength actually increased. In my 11th year as an NFL player, I had my best year by far and I owe much of that success to DINE Healthy. I've tried other more expensive and harder to use and understand nutrition programs; DINE Healthy is the best! It's simple to use, it's inexpensive, and it WORKS!!"

"I have the evaluation download of DINE Healthy 6. I used it for 10 minutes and ordered the full version. It's a wonderful program. I am especially grateful that it separates animal and plant protein. I'm giving up my color-coded spreadsheet in favor of DINE Healthy 6! I'm dealing with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), and that presents a whole set of nutritional challenges which I need your program to help me deal with effectively. Thank you for developing this wonderful software. It's going to make a HUGE difference in my life!"

"Beyond reading information in a textbook, entering data from my own journal into the DINE program personalized for me the practical impact of diet and exercise on wellness, sleeping patterns, and energy levels throughout the day. As a student in the HES program at Furman, I gained a conceptual knowledge of physical wellness and nutrition that has aided me in my own personal everyday decisions, as well as enhanced the quality of my professional work. As a music therapist, I work in all domains of physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioral aspects of human development. I believe that my experience in the HES program has given me greater insight into the physical side of holistic wellness in my clients. The opportunity to use the DINE software was a highlight for me at Furman University."

"The DINE System will be very useful for... improving the quality of their diet and exercise routine. The program is highly recommended."

"The DINE System is an excellent teaching tool. The software opens students' eyes to the nutritional content of the foods they are eating and gives them measurable nutrition goals to attain. Students often tell me that they enjoy using the software because DINE helps them understand their diets and is very useful in their study of nutrition and health. I have used the DINE Systems ever since it was first published. After looking at many other nutrient analysis programs, I know the DINE System is definitely the best."

"Fast, accurate, easy, exciting and educational describe the DINE System."

"In 1990 the Dine Healthy program was one of the first computer programs I used to coincide with a classroom lecture. I remember that it really didn't take too long to master the program and when I did use it I was able to internalize the material we learned in class. At the level I used it I was more interested in calories and fat percent and not so much about micronutrients and what they meant in the scheme of things and how they related to health. So what I got from it was pretty basic but most useful -ie., the importance of calories in versus calories out and the percentage of fat and its effect on health and wellness."

" ...Two major strengths of the program are the DINE Score system and the extended messages generated for each analysis generated. These features are very useful for the practitioner involved with nutritional counseling...
...The program features an attractive state of the art interface that is user-friendly. A helpful tutorial facilitates mastery of the program. The Report option enables users to select which reports to generate and the information contained in them...
...Finally, DINE Healthy is enhanced by four strong technical assistance features - mail, telephone, fax, and on-line..."

"Gradually and safely, I lost weight using DINE and reduced a very high cholesterol (295) without the aid of medication. The program also taught me how to modify much loved, but not-so-healthy recipes in order to eat healthy without sacrificing good taste."

"On January 4, 2002, I began my HEA 207 Nutrition and Behavior class with Dr. Darwin Dennison. The class focused upon the improvement of food choices and physical activity using the DINE Healthy software program. At the beginning of the semester, I weighed 226 pounds. I followed the basic principles of the class and learned to monitor and improve my food choices and physical activity. As of May 1, 2002, I lost an incredible 41 pounds, increased my lean body mass, and did so scientifically and safely. I know now how to plan my meals, learned portion size, how to use appetite to control hunger, nutrient balance, and the relationship of diet to energy balance. The final task in the class was to develop a 'Nutritional Lifestyle Management Plan.' I feel and look great and plan to keep it off! Thank you Dr. Dennison."