At first glance ihealthrecord.com’s section on supplements looks insubstantial. The page asks you to check off some nutritional supplements, such as Pediasure (for children) or Ensure (for adults). You can also add comments about your nutritional peccadilloes or foods that don’t agree with you, so I put down that I’m "allergic" to avocado, zucchini and squash. (Let’s just say I go into gastric distress and leave it at that.)

In addition to supplements offered such as Ensure, Advera, and Glucerna there are also blank boxes where I can add some of the vitamins and other supplements I take. I fill these in and hit "save."

Then – since the page took me no time at all to complete – I click on "edit" just for the heck of it and what should appear but an additional page for each supplement I added.

For example, I filled in one of the boxes with a brief blurb that I take a half tablet of iron every five days or so. The "edit" page for this box lets me to go into a lot more detail, allowing me to answer such questions as "form" (tablet, capsule, gel, cream, etc.); "frequency" (daily, weekly, and so on); "directions" (take with food), and so on. The "edit" section also includes spots that allow me to check off if I’m currently taking this particular supplement, when I started taking it and when, if ever, I stopped taking it. I also get a big blank box for any "additional comments" I might wish to add.

I like the opportunity the record gives me to go into considerable more detail about my supplement regime. But if I hadn’t thought that the "Nutrition Support" page looked less than substantial at first and if I hadn’t then wondered if perhaps more meat was hidden behind this page’s less-than-obvious "edit" button, I probably would have left the information I first added to that section’s front page as it was. That is, sketchy. It would be nice if the page was more obvious in letting me know I could add considerable detail about the why, the how many and the how often.