Patent ID: 8463618

Claim:
A computerized system for personalizing and sending to portable device users tailored strategy messages to promote modifications to dietary health behaviors, comprising: a first computerized database configured to store personal and diet preference data for a plurality of users, said personal data for said plurality of users comprising contact data for sending messages to portable devices of said portable device users and said diet preference data comprising: (i) diet plan selections, (ii) food preferences, (iii) a preferred meal time of day, and (iv) meal preparation preferences for each of said plurality of users; a second computerized database configured to store dietary and nutritional data for a plurality of foods and recipes; a server executing programming instructions for: (a) analyzing diet preference data from said first computerized database for said plurality of users; (b) analyzing dietary and nutritional data from said second computerized database; (c) generating a tailored message for each of said plurality of users wherein said tailored message comprises: (i) a meal suggestion based on said analysis of: said diet plan selections, food preferences, and meal preparation preferences for each of said plurality of users, and said dietary and nutritional data; and (ii) an acceptance option for said meal suggestion; (d) defining a time interval consisting of a plurality of minutes; (e) scheduling pre-determined times for delivering said tailored messages to said portable devices wherein said pre-determined times are within said time interval in advance of said preferred meal time of day specified by each of said plurality of users; (f) sending said tailored messages to at least one computer network in communication with said portable devices of said plurality of users, wherein said server sends each tailored message comprising a meal suggestion to said computer network for delivery to said portable devices at said pre-determined times; and (g) receiving at said server from said portable devices responses to said acceptance option.