A multi-day food recall makes it easier for you to make useful dietary recommendations to your clients. Their food intake will tell you important things that will help you craft your report and recommendations. For example, you may find that your client is taking in 57% of her calories from fat, is getting 250 calories a day too many for her age to maintain her current body weight, and that she’s eating too many cheeseburgers, French fries, doughnuts and milkshakes. The recommendations follow easily and logically from the intake report.

At least one nutrition and fitness software package allows you to create ("burn") a Nutrient Intake Module CD-R for your client. Your clients can take the Intake Module CD home, install the software to their Windows PC, and record their own food intake for any time period. A click of a button sends this information to you via email. If your client prefers, she can copy her intake to a diskette and hand it to you.

You can use your own CD labels and craft them in business card format to promote your business. (We provide starter labels formatted for the two most popular CDR label formats.) The CD's that you provide your customers are reusable. Make as many copies as you wish – one nutrition software package allows you to make as many copies of the Intake Module as you need. You can even put it on your web site and make it available as a download if you like.

Ask your clients to return the CD when they come in to get their in-depth analysis and recommendations. Reuse the CD with other clients. Since the Intake Module for at least one software product is royalty-free and never expires, your clients can use the software to track their intakes on an on-going basis if desired. (One other software package offers a Client Intake Module, but requires a license for each copy you use.)

The Client Intake Module helps you cut your workload by having your clients record their own food recalls. This feature makes it possible for you to support the food intakes for an entire Health Club single-handedly. It makes your services more affordable... and more profitable. And it helps gets your clients involved with their own nutrition.