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Their annual article on diets is out. So wether you want to lose weight, eat healthy, or protect your heart, this section is chock full of information.

From Medindia, comes this article from a Swedish study which suggests Atkins can increase your risk of heart disease.

While I agree with keeping refined sugar and flour to a minimum, I simply can’t see how eating all that fat can be healthy.

To be healthier, would you? Changing these two behaviors seems to have a domino effect on other unhealthy habits in a person’s life, according to this article at Medical News Today.

With the last update, I did put a fix into the app store last week, so hopefully within the next day or so, it will be approved and released.

This article at medical News Today, not only explains how much you should eat per day, but goes on to discuss portion sizes, BMR, ways to determine your ideal weight, and more. Worth a read.

We all know that drinking lots of water can help in long weight, but did you know that drinking water at meals can also help you make healthier food choices? Read this article at Medical News Today to find out more.

After eating a healthy low calorie breakfast, how to keep those mid morning hunger pains away? Try an egg at breakfast, according to this article from Medical News Today.

We all know that grocery shopping is hard. So many choices and conflicting information. So how do you figure out how to shop healthy? Read this interesting article from Medical News Today to find out!

Here are the latest improvements that I should be submitting this weekend to the App store:

• Database – expanded the names of the food. Hid many of the duplicates (yes no more pages and pages of baby food listings!), improved keyword search to now only look for items which contain all of the words, provide the option if you want to perform a keyword or phrase based search. Fixed a lot of the calculations, as they were based on the wrong weights. Added grams to non liquid items for the serving size, and for some liquids, added ml to the serving size. For Values Plus, added in the correct cost of alcoholic drinks, and also, made fruits and vegetables cost 0. I may have missed some as I had to do that by hand.
• Number displays – localized displaying of numbers, so e.g., in the US a user would see 4.5, but in say Germany, a user will see 4,5
• Added Activity Goal to diet settings so you can set a daily goal for activity
• Fixed an issue where sometimes, when tracking by time period, entries would shift to the previous day. Thanks to a great user in Austria for helping me track this one down!

For searching, the keyword search is a big improvement. Previously when searching, it would look for items which any of the keywords in the name. Now the item must contain all items.
For example, if you perform a keyword search for ‘Beef Soup’, the item must contain both words, beef and soup to be found instead of beef or soup. For phase based searching, the same item must contain the phrase ‘Beef Soup’ to be found.

For items which are being removed from the database, if you have marked an item as a favorite it will not be removed. Also if you have used an item which is to be removed, it will not be removed, but rather hidden.

The database will shrink from 7900 items to about 3700 items. This should also speed things up as well.

After this release, I will start on all of the great suggestions people have been giving me over the past few weeks.