Comfort and Convenience Come to Dr. Gourmet

Now available at http://www.drgourmet.com, The Quality Calorie Diet will allow users who want to eat home-style, familiar foods can choose “The Comfort Food Diet” option. In addition, The Quality Calorie Diet now offers users the option of choosing convenience meals, such as Lean Cuisine or WeightWatchers frozen meals, in addition to or in place of scheduled meals.

New Orleans, LA, February 18, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Timothy S. Harlan, M.D., also known as Dr. Gourmet, today launches the newest features in The Quality Calorie Diet, his free, customizable diet and menu planning software.

Now available at http://www.drgourmet.com, The Quality Calorie Diet will allow users who want to eat home-style, familiar foods can choose “The Comfort Food Diet” option. Their heart-healthy customized two-week meal plan will include only such familiar favorites as Mac ‘n’ Cheese, Meatloaf and Pepperoni Pizza.

“Americans think their “comfort foods” are unhealthy,” says Dr. Harlan, “but they don’t have to be. My recipes give you all the pleasure of comfort foods without the fat and unhealthy ingredients.”

In addition, The Quality Calorie Diet now offers users the option of choosing convenience meals, such as Lean Cuisine or WeightWatchers frozen meals, in addition to or in place of scheduled meals. “We want The Quality Calorie Diet to be as real-world as possible,” Dr. Harlan said in an interview. “Convenience meals are a part of our busy lives. At Dr. Gourmet, we find the healthiest convenience meals and include them in the software so that people have a choice of foods.”

The software is based on the 5 areas that research has shown help people with both eating healthy and weight loss.

1. Meal Planning - Provides users with two week menu plans complete with shopping lists. Users can include their own recipes in planning menus.

2. Food Diary – Offers a comprehensive online Food Diary so that users can track their caloric intake.

3. Goal Tracking – Along with the Exercise Diary, the plan allows documenting of calories consumed vs. calories burned and tracks progress toward user-defined goals.

4. Groups Lose Weight Better - The only diet or menu planning software that allows users to create a plan that works for their whole family.

5. Knowledge - The new Recipe Box feature allows users to enter their own recipes for use in meal plans and also analyzes the recipes and provides Nutrition Facts.

The Quality Calorie Diet is available at www.drgourmet.com.

About Dr. Gourmet

Dr. Harlan is a practicing internist, Medical Director and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine. Raised in the restaurant business, he is also an accomplished chef who owned his first restaurant at the age of twenty-two. He is the author of cookbooks as well as patient education materials, and is the creator of Emmy-winning television programming that helps viewers better understand how to eat healthy.

DrGourmet.com is firmly grounded in evidence-based medicine and its diets and recipes are based on the Mediterranean Diet, the only diet clinically proven to help prevent heart disease. It includes hundreds of recipes for low sodium diets, lactose intolerance and for patients who use warfarin (Coumadin®), as well as those with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and gluten sensitivity.

For more information: contact Timothy S. Harlan, M.D., at (504) 931-2929, drgourmet@drgourmet.com.

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