Tune into this week’s WLS News for the rundown on the best new gadgets to track your weight loss success, and get details about new research that could hold a clue to boosting the number of calories you burn. Plus, learn what weight loss surgery may soon do for people who aren’t yet obese, and find out what visceral fat is, and the difference it can make in a person’s health based on their ethnicity. All of these stories and more are featured in this week’s newscast.
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New Devices Help Shed Pounds
Losing weight has become a high-tech proposition, thanks to a few new products that help people with their calorie spending.
Sweden’s Karolinska Institute recently released something known as the Mandometer, which keeps track of how much a person eats and how fast they’re eating it. If the person is eating too quickly, the device tells them to slow down. According to recent results, the device was tested on a group of obese children and within one year, their eating speed decreased by 11 percent.
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