Weight Loss is in Your Metabolic Number

New Metabolism Monitoring Device Can Tell You Yours

(ARA) - Losing weight may be as easy as knowing one single number -- your metabolic number. Metabolism is the key component in the weight loss equation and now, you can know yours.

"If you know how many calories your body is burning, then you know your calorie limit. Knowing this all-important number puts you in control of your weight loss goals," says Heather Haugen, M.S., R.D., a registered dietitian.

Oxygen is the universal fuel of metabolism. By simply measuring the amount of oxygen your body is using, you can know how many calories your body is burning.

The technique of measuring oxygen consumption to determine metabolism is not new -- it has been around for more than a hundred years. Called indirect calorimetry, methods of performing the measurement have been complicated, cumbersome and expensive, thereby preventing routine usage of the technique.

But now there is a device that makes it possible, for the first time, for the measurement to be made on a routine basis by weight loss and fitness professionals. The BodyGem by HealtheTech, www.healthetech.com, is a revolutionary metabolism measurement tool that can tell you how many calories your body is burning with a simple five to 10 minute breathing test. Fitness, weight loss and wellness professionals nationwide are using the handheld device to measure the metabolisms of their customers and to personalize weight loss and fitness plans according to their unique physiologies.

Until now, weight loss has been largely limited to equations based on height, weight, sex and age. With this new technology, there is no longer any reason to apply a one-size-fits-all approach to weight management.

"What the BodyGem device does for the measurement of metabolism is much like the revolution between a mainframe computer and a palm-sized one," says James Mault, M.D., chairman and CEO of HealtheTech and a heart and lung transplant doctor that has studied metabolism for more than 20 years. "This technology makes the measurement of metabolism not only possible, but practical and accessible."

For more information about the BodyGem, visit www.healthetech.com or call 1-866-my metabolism.

Courtesy of ARA Content