CalorieLookup.com - Calorie Calculator and Diary

CalorieLookup.com aims to help users maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle through informed nutrition and exercise. It is a database of information about how many calories are in the foods you eat and how many calories are burned when you exercise. You can also create a personal calorie diary to track your caloric intake and your exercise, and even print weekly reports. Any visitor to the site can check the food or exercise calorie calculators, but only registered users can create a diary or participate in discussions in the “clubhouse,” a general bulletin board for discussion. The clubhouse also features a page of YouTube videos about fitness and nutrition topics. At last count, CalorieLookup.com listed 8,932 foods in its database, with new foods being added regularly. One way the database is expanded is when users add a new food by entering information off the label or copying a recipe into the site. When users add a new food or recipe, it becomes accessible to the entire community.

“The fact is, it can be hard to know how many calories are in the foods you eat, and how many calories you are burning throughout the day. CalorieLookup solves this problem by making it easy to estimate the calories in foods you eat, and calories burned in exercise. If you sign up for a free account, you can also keep a diary of calories eaten and burned so you can track your progress over time.”

We all know that if you burn more calories than you take in, you should lose weight - but that can be easier said than done. CalorieLookup.com could be a really helpful resource for people who want to get serious about tracking their calorie intake and exercise to lose weight or stay healthy. Even users who do not choose to keep a calorie diary on the site could find the calorie calculators for food and exercise quite helpful.

Are there aesthetic improvements in store for CalorieLookup.com? There's currently a lot of white space and an absence of graphics (except ads), so it's a little boring. Also, will user-submitted food entries be reviewed eventually, both for accuracy and to eliminate duplicate entries? When I searched for kiwi, there seem to be three separate entries for the fruit and two for kiwi-flavored Snapple drinks.