This calculator gives results based on your body fat percentage and other measurements and they are not affected by your overall body weight. The Doctor’s APP’s standout feature though is the built-in body fat and visceral fat calculator which determines your individual measurements against how much fat you should lose or gain in order to be in the healthy range. “The key is to eat fewer calories than you expend and monitor your vital stats like your body fat and muscle mass. “New research has found that these are the numbers that matter, and can be the key to losing weight and keeping it off.” “Rather than tracking your health through tape measures and ordinary scales, progress is measured by prescribing GPs using body composition analysis to understand your individual biometrics. Unlike ordinary scales that record only body weight, The Doctor's Kitchen prescribed program incorporates bio-impedance scales to measure patients which provides additional data such as body fat, abdominal fat, muscle mass and basal metabolic rate.
The Doctor’s APP will help Australians better understand their overall health and see improvements to their individual body composition. “Excess body fat is associated with significant risk of metabolic diseases like diabetes and heart disease. This way, by tracking your body measurements, you will be able to assess your weight loss trend over time and help stop weight cycling.
It is also important to check in with your GP on a fortnightly basis. At each follow up consult with your Doctor, Australians can now monitor their weight and vital biometrics, track their progress and reduce their risk of developing diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, sleep apnoea, heart disease, obesity and other health concerns. When using a weight loss tracker, it is important to monitor not only how much you weigh, but also important indicators of health such as body fat percentage, and muscle mass. This summary will help you understand your overall health, rather than just weight alone, see how far you’ve come and how far you’ve got to go.Īustralian Doctor and Founder of The Doctor’s Kitchen Australia, Dr Phillip Wuth said, “we all know prevention is better than cure, and one way to help prevent illness is to keep tabs on key indicators of your health – weight, body fat, abdominal fat, muscle mass, metabolic age, BMR at rest. It’s medically designed to instantly chart the changes in your body measurements against your goals with a dashboard summary of each measurement. The holistic Doctor’s APP, available to all Australians participating in the Doctor’s prescribed weight loss meal program, includes a built-in body fat percentage, visceral fat, and muscle mass calculator to help you determine if your individual biometrics fall in a healthy range.