
Their system uses microwaves to accurately estimate the calories on a dinner plate.Īccording to Matt Webster, senior scientist specializing in imaging and biomedical technologies at GE’s lab, the primary issue with existing calorie-counting apps is that the amount of calories in a piece of food-say a tuna sandwich or a salad-can vary greatly from plate to plate and from preparation to preparation. Researchers have long been trying to develop tools that will do all the calorie counting for you, and a team at GE Global Research has now come closer than any other before them.

(Although anything’s better than setting things on fire, right?) It’s imprecise, inaccurate and just plain annoying. Users must enter each snack, drink, entrée and side dish by hand.

While the apps that work with those fitness trackers-not to mention the separate glut of dieting apps-let users keep a tally of their daily food intake, that process is far more cumbersome than tracking steps. But, as the good doctor would agree, that’s only half the picture. Thankfully, when it comes to exercise, the recent crop of fitness and activity monitors have stepped in to keep tabs on just how much we move-some even go as far as customizing workout routines based on our current state.

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If you ask any doctor how to lose weight, he or she will feed you exactly the line you’d expect: “Diet and exercise.” Absent a personal trainer and a nutritionist, most of us fend for ourselves when it comes to setting a plan-and sticking to it.
