Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Easier carb calculations thanks to CalorieKing and Joslin

I read about this in the latest CWD newsletter, and it seems like a great tool to use if you're doing carb or calorie counting.

CalorieKing and the Joslin clinic have combined to create a Web Browser toolbar. This allows you to search for food information (carbs, fat, calories) quickly from your browser. And it works for both Internet Explorer and Firefox!

Here's what the installed toolbar looks like.

And here's an example of the results that it returns.

Labels: calorie, calorieking, carbs, diabetes, joslin

8 Comments:

At August 07, 2007 11:54 AM , Carey said...: Cool, thanks!
At August 07, 2007 12:03 PM , manny hernandez said...: This is AMAZINGLY cool and useful!

I am going to have a toolbar crisis soon. :)
At August 07, 2007 12:09 PM , Marston A, SugarStats said...: Wow, I really wish they would reply to my emails so we could integrate their food DB with SugarStats :-(
At August 07, 2007 1:14 PM , Scott said...: Now, if only they would develop a version for use with Google's SMS (text messaging) service, as not many of us carry around wireless laptops, but our phones are everywhere!
At August 07, 2007 1:56 PM , Wingman said...: I downloaded calorie king to my palm pilot - would love if they integrated this into an os version.
At August 07, 2007 5:54 PM , Paige said...: This is great! Thanks, Bernard.
At August 21, 2007 1:12 PM , Bennet said...: How did I miss that gem?

Thanks for pointing it out!
At January 15, 2008 3:52 AM , Brad Jones said...: I still like my desktop version at calorie balance diet. It is free. But still no phone version. That would be really cool to be able to just text and then get food info.

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