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 			<h2 style='text-align: center;'>ABOUT</h2>
 
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-				First, the software that runs this site is free.  It is released under an
+				The software that runs this site is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free</a>.  It is released under an
 				<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT (X11)</a>
 				license.  You can <a href="download.php">download</a> the source code and the
 				database, alter it, improve it or otherwise do whatever you like with it.  If you'd
-				like to help me improve nutridb.org, then feel free to send me patches or other
-				improvements.  If anyone is really interested, let me know and we can talk about
-				giving you Subversion commit privileges.  I'd like for nutridb.org to become a
-				collaborative, community effort.  This way the results of anyone's work will go to a
-				central place where everyone can benefit.  Feel free to contact me at <a href="http://natha.nkinka.de">nath@nkinka.de</a>.
+				like to help improve NutriDB, then feel free to send patches or other
+				improvements.
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-				I began work on this database sometime around mid 2002.  It started out of a strong
-				interest in nutrition and a desire to explore <a href='http://php.net'> PHP</a>,
-				which at the time was new to me.  The initial idea came from an old friend of mine
-				who had started a similar project but using
-				<a href='http://www.perl.org/about.html'>Perl</a>.
-			</div>
-
-			<div class='standardMargins'>
-				The present incarnation of this site bears little resemblance to the original.
-				In 2003 I left for Belize to serve with the Peace Corps as an Information Technology
-				volunteer, and after the Peace Corps I stayed in Central America for about another
-				two years.  So, the project pretty much went dormant for the better part of four
-				years.  However, when I returned to the States in February of 2007, I immediately
-				picked the project back up.  I practically rewrote the entire thing from the ground
-				up, with the only real resemblance to the old one being the core logic.
-			</div>
-
-			<div class='standardMargins'>
-				When I wrote the original version of the utility I wasn't then aware of many other
-				free web-based systems that were doing something similar.  Now I see that there are
-				a number of <a href='resources.php#nutritionsites'>other sites</a> that have a very
-				complete set of tools.
-			</div>
-
-			<div class='standardMargins'>
-				This tool aims to be a free and open basis upon which to build a community based
-				nutrition tool that is totally open to the public.  Anyone can take the code that
-				runs this site and make it better or extend it.
+				NutriDB, like pretty much every other nutrition calculator in the world, uses data from the <a href="http://www.ars.usda.gov/ba/bhnrc/ndl">USDA</a>.  NutriDB currently uses USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 24.
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