Text message for nutritional 411

Text messaging your friend about the guy or girl you met last night at the bar, while at the same time you're driving your car on an interstate highway? Not exactly a healthy decision. Text messaging to find out the nutritional content of a particular food at a restaurant? That's more like it.

Diet.com offers a great text messaging tool to help you when you're in a pinch. If you're at a restaurant and want to know how many calories and how much fat, protein, and carbohydrate a particular food contains, simply text message their automated service at DIET1 (or 34381) and enter the name of the restaurant and the type of food you have a question about. For example, I just texted DIET1 and typed in: Burger King Whopper. Within seconds, I received a text message that said the following:

WHOPPER

Cal: 670

Fat: 39g

Carb: 51g

Prtn: 27g

So, rather than use up all your free text messages for the month gossiping with friends, use them to help you make a healthy choice with your meal (clearly a Whopper doesn't exactly fall into that category).