Weight Loss Technology: The gadgets that help you in your weight loss process

Weight Loss Technology: the gadgets that help you in your weight loss process

Several companies have come up with neat and new technology tools and aids. Some of the best gadgets are:

(a) Your mobile phone as a weight tool

1) My Food Phone: This is a service were customers use any camera equipped cell phone to send snapshots of their meals to a website and receive diet advice from a registered diction on how to modify eating habits to reach weight or health goals. This has been applied in Quebec City by NATS Inc.

2) The Thin cam app for iphone analyzes the meal you are about to eat after you send a picture of it from your mobile device the picture is send to a nutritionist   who analyze the data and its you know what you are doing wrong and what you can avoid. It sounds much the same like thee my food phone thing above except this can is an application of the phone only the thin cam will cost you.

3) Weight watches on the go this application is provided for free if you have a monthly subscription to the weight watches website and attend meetings this also works as my food phone.

4) The South Beach Diet on Hand mobile application let you look up healthful recipes based on a single ingredient while you shot this application can tell you what to order in restaurant, based o your ingredients of choice or you calorie goals.

(b) New medical Devices

(1) Gastric stimulator implants

The most used Gastric implant is known as Transcend II this helps the obese from undergoing a gastric bypass surgery. This stimulator sends and electric impulse to the stomach or certain nerves that can boost your metabolism or regulate appetite signals to the brain. They greatest benefit with this device is that it helps to alter your earing habits by altering the frequency with while experience hunger.

(c) Exercise devices

1) Sports watches

First they were designed as sports watches but now they are helping in managing weight loss through exercise they are from different companies like Garmin, Timex, Wike and  Polar this device will tell your heart beat per minute (via a chest strap) and the number of catorious burned.

2) Kinetic Dance Central

The kinetic allows you to control any related game with your body without the need of an external remote you move and your character moves. You will learn you favorite dance routines and getting fit at the same time. However it is not very cheap to have the whole system at your home.

3) Wii fit plus

You stand on the games’ included balance board and then complete the games many exercises. The exercises focus on strength and balance.

4) Gruve Personal Activity Monitor

This device keeps track of your personal activity. If the device is certain you have been lazy it lets of off an alarm. It also analyses your burned calorious for the day against a back catalog of data it has been collecting.

5) Adidas mi coach.

This gadget has been nicknamed “Virtual Personal trainer”. It takes note of your heart rate to the to the number of steps you are taking as you jog; this machine can give real-line customized verbal coaching. This gadget costs $130 in Amazon.Com.

d) Smart scales

What the program you are using to cut weight this scales are indispensable. They are scales which not only measure your weight but also your approximate percentage of body fat. Wi-Fi enhanced scales can also post your weight online whenever you weigh in if there are people within your social network who are encouraging you.