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What is DAX-pro?

DAX-pro is a sophisticated and feature rich application to help you build a personalized daily nutrition and exercise plan. It can suggest foods to add, shows you how each food item affects daily nutrition.

DAX stands for Diet And eXercise

Who Is It For?

DAX-pro is designed for athletes, fitness enthusiasts, bodybuilders and dieters who want to have a detailed view of their diet and exercise program.

If you want to control the balance of carbohydrates, protein, and fat in your diet, keep an eye on sodium and cholesterol, ensure that you are getting enough vitamins and minerals, balance calories burned against calories consumed, then DAX-pro is designed for you.

Below is a list of DAX-pro's features. Unique key features are highlighted in bold.

Users

Multiple users can use DAX-pro on the same computer, each with their own libraries and day plans.
  • Automatic computation of body composition, and resting metabolic rate

  • Export and import of user defined library items, for sharing library data

  • Printable progress graph, showing body weight, body fat, lean mass, nutrition and exercise level.

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    The Food Library

    Items in the Food Library contain nutrition data. You build the food portion of your Day Plan with food items from this list.
    • Built-in library of 7,600 food items from the updated USDA nutrition database, SR22

    • Support for user defined food items

    • Support for user defined recipes

    • Automatic computation of estimated Glycemic Index of user defined foods and recipes

    • Flexible database search

    • List filtering by food category

    • Ability to hide food items that are of no interest

    • Unique "balance" feature, to locate foods that will balance the day plan in progress. For example, if the day plan is short of protein, but high in fat, suggest foods that are high in protein, low in fat.

    The Exercise Library

    Items in the Exercise library contain information about calories burned during exercise. You build the exercise portion of the Day Plan with items from this library.
    • Built-in library of 226 exercises

    • Support for user defined exercises

    • Flexible database search

    The Program Library

    Items in the Program library contain mathematical rules to determine how much to eat, what kind of food to eat, and how much to exercise, to achieve a certain goal, such as fat loss or muscle building. You select one item from this library for your Day Plan.
    • Built-in library of programs for weight loss, muscle gain, bodybuilding, or maintaining a healthy weight

    • Support for user defined programs

    • Support for cyclic programs. Cyclic programs are not the same every day.

    • Flexible database search

    • Computation and tracking of daily targets for
      • calorie intake
      • carbohydrates
      • fat
      • protein
      • saturated fat
      • fiber
      • sugar
      • sodium
      • potassium
      • cholesterol
      • vitamin a
      • vitamin c
      • calcium
      • iron
      • glycemic load
      • calories exercised

    The Day Plan

    The Day Plan is where you collect food items you are planning to eat (or have eaten), and your workouts.

    • Simple visualization of actual nutrition, relative to nutrition target. When a bar reaches the hairline, the nutrition target for that nutrient has been met

    • Tracking of calories, and all macro-nutrients: carbohydrates, protein, fat

    • Tracking of fiber, saturated fat, sugar, sodium, and cholesterol

    • Tracking of glycemic index of foods and glycemic load of diet

    • Automatic conversion of units, e.g. from grams to oz, or from cups to the number of strawberries

    • Tracking of fruit and vegetable consumption

    • Evaluation of meals and day plan, advice on improvement

    • Easily add food items to the printable shopping list

    Motivational Tools
    • Printable progress graph, showing changes in body weight, body fat, lean mass, along with nutrition and exercise level.

    • Completed day plans that have met nutrition and/or exercise targets, are marked with a star in the calendar

    And More...

    • Complete undo/redo system

    • Built in contextual help system

    • No menu access needed for daily tasks

    • US/Imperial and metric units

    • Support for proper fractions, for example ½ cup

    • 12 hour "am/pm" or 24 hour clock display

    • Automatic backup of data files

    • Written in Java, so it runs on all modern operating systems