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Cell phones may make weight-loss easier

NATIONAL - If you're trying to lose weight you're like a lot of people who've probably tried to do that a lot of different ways. It's a struggle for many of us. There is a new high tech option that might help for some.

Like many of us, Lauren Alford tries to eat a healthy diet. "It's New Year's resolution time, and so with resolutions, trying to eat better, trying to be healthy."

But sometimes making the right food choice is confusing. But now, you can get all the nutritional information you need from your favorite restaurants by using your cell phone.

The program is called "Nutrition on the Go" - a text message service that lets you get nutritional information like calories, fat and protein on your favorite restaurant foods.

Meredith Oliver of Diet.com says, "We have 1,700 restaurants in the database right now and we're going for the top restaurant chains to start with."

To get it to work, you punch in a special number, then enter the restaurant name and specific food item, and in an instant a text message appears with the nutritional information.

Lauren says Nutrition on the Go is helping her make the right food choices wherever she is. Alford says, "You can easily talk yourself into eating something when you don't know how many calories it's got. But when you see it, it helps with the restriction."

The Nutrition on the Go service is free, but standard text messaging fees apply on your cell phone.

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Posted by Chantelle Janelle