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Can you image placing a plate full of your favorite potato chips on a digital food scale and know exactly how bad they are for you? Talk about a deterrent! What if you could calculate exactly how much protein was in your chicken sandwich, or how much fiber you have consumed through an entire day? It sounds like a the perfect tool to help build a healthy lifestyle, right?

Today’s digital nutrition tracking food scales can do all this and more. The Escali Cesto and Cibo nutrition tracking food scales allow the user to calculate the calories, sodium (salt,) protein, fat, carbohydrates, cholesterol and fiber content of nearly a thousand everyday food items, in addition to the standard weight measurement. This information has been invaluable to dieters, diabetics, athletes and fitness fanatics. It provides you with access to specific knowledge of your entire diet which in turn gives you the ability to better control your diet, and your health. The scales will even add multiple food components together to calculate an entire meal, or days, worth of nutritional information and store it in its memory for later reference.

You may be asking yourself, “Where does Escali get the data for its nutritional scales? How do I know it’s accurate?” That is a great question, because the scale’s calculated nutritional values are only as good as the source of nutritional data that the scale uses to compare your food.

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This is one of the best things in my kitchen. I use it almost daily. It is especially helpful for diabetics & those who are really interested in what they are eating. There are several features & they all work well. I had a previous scale from another company. I trashed it. It didn’t stay on long enough to weigh anything. You won’t go wrong with the EatSmart.

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This scale has a lot of feature pumped into a simple to understand interface. I love it. Our daughter was diagnosed with diabetes earlier this year, so we need to closely monitor her carb intake. When we started, we used measuring cups and a cheap scale. Not fun at all when you have a 2 year old screaming for their breakfast and needing to do math in your head to get the number right. So we had heard about electronic scales that had nutritional information right in the device and found this one. Once we got it we fell in love with it. We just enter the food code or enter the Info from the back of the Cheerios box and start to pour. It’s that simple. The best part I have found for my situation is doing food subtraction. When my 2 year old starts to throw the food on the floor, I just pick it up and weigh it to know what amount of Carbs she did not eat, which would need to be replaced. The company is also very helpful, the scale we had bought initially broke, and displayed ERROR whenever we started it up. We called them and discussed the issue; they sent a new one the next day to us. They were great to work with. We ended up finding it so useful; we bought one for both sets of grandparents so when we are over there we can manage the meals with the same ease.

I was told by my doctor to measure and log my food. I bought a big book with the nutritional values for food and began logging what I ate. For each food I had to look it up in the book, estimate the portion size, grab the calculator, and figure how many carbs, fat, etc., was in the food. I found this process very time consuming and felt like giving up. Then I bought the EatSmart scale. Now I can measure all the foods I eat in a lot less time! My favorite feature is being able to ‘build a meal’. Here are the exact steps for building a meal: put your dinner plate on the scale (press tare which returns scale to zero), put baked sockeye salmon on pate (press 583 which is the code for baked sockeye salmon, press M+ for memory, press tare), put boiled string beans on plate (press 200, press M+, press tare), put baked red potato on plate (press 178, press M+, press tare), put salted butter on potato (press 661, press M+), (press MR/MC to see the total nutritional values of the foods on the plate), (Press MC to clear memory and return the scale to normal mode).

This is a great food scale. It should look at home on most counter tops. It has a very nice contemporary look. The functions are easy to use and very practical for most diet applications. The display is clear and easy to read. I bought this for my wife for christmas, but will probably use it as much as she does. It really is surprising to see how much, or rather how small, most serving sizes are. The scale is especially helpful if you use the calculator mode to determine fat, calories, carbs and etc….per serving size. I hope everyone who buys one has great success meeting their nurtritional goals.

The mantra to lose weight is simple- spend more than you consume! But as with all simple things in life, this is very difficult to follow; especially if you suffer from chronic conditions where the barest of all exercises causes a lot of stress. So how do you lose weight naturally? Here are a few things to do and practice when trying to lose weight naturally:

? Eat a diet that is dominated by raw food: A diet rich in raw unprocessed food is rarely fattening. Thus fruits, raw vegetables, sprouts, salads, are all examples of raw food that banish hunger, yet keep the calorie count on check. If eating raw isn?t possible, eat food that is broiled, steamed, or grilled. Needless to say, avoid food that is fried or sautéed.

When you fill your plate, ensure that half of it is taken by vegetables, 1/4th by carbohydrates, and the remaining by protein. There are some foods that add up the protein as well as the carb count. Make sure that you balance this out. Chicken, fish and eggs are a good source of protein. As for the vegetables, ensure that you avoid starchy vegetables like potatoes and other root veggies.

? Sugar is best avoided. And even if you have to source them from natural food like fruits. Another way is to simply skip desserts. A good thing about fruits is that it provides the natural mix of sugar, minerals, and fiber that have a self limiting effect on the body. Thus you feel full longer. And if you can?t control your urge, eat sugar 15 minutes before your food. This is because hunger is directly related to blood sugar levels and hence curbs your urge to eat.

? Cut processed food: Refined flour, heavy sugar and plenty of other additives are common ingredients in processed food. Complex carbs take time to digest and hence make you feel full for a longer period.

? Eat 5 times in a day: Rather than eating three whole meals make sure that you eat 5 times in a day. This increases the metabolism and causes the body to burn more fat.

? Eat in small plates: Eating in a small plate encourages you to take fewer servings and also makes you feel full sooner than expected.

? Regular exercise: All of the above mentioned methods are useless unless you exercise for a minimum of at least 30 minutes every day.

By inculcating these habits you may take time to lose weight, but it ensures that you do not land yourself in the hospital and that the weight loss permanent.