Patent ID: 8768727

Claim:
A computerized system for personalizing and sending to portable device users tailored 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 portable device users: (i) said personal data comprising contact data for sending messages to portable devices of said portable device users; and (ii) said diet preference data comprising at least one preferred meal time of day; 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 diet preference data and dietary and nutritional data; and (ii) an acceptance option for said meal suggestion; (d) defining a time interval consisting of a plurality of minutes for scheduling message delivery times; (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 from said server said tailored messages to said portable devices for delivery at said pre-determined times; and (g) receiving at said server from said portable devices responses to said acceptance option.