The Low-Glycal Diet™ by BioFit
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About The Low-Glycal Diet™ by BioFit
What’s the best way to lose weight? Should you reduce the total number of calories in your diet or lower the total glycemic load? There is scientific evidence to support both approaches, so which one should you follow? Well, it turns out that both are important!
Everyone knows that calories are important, but not everyone knows that when you eat those calories you can do three things with them: burn them for energy; store them as fat; or use them to build lean body mass.
What you do with those calories is determined by hormones in your body, the most important being insulin. Your insulin level is determined not only by the number of calories you eat, but also by the type of calories you eat.
This is why what you eat (glycemic load) is as important as how much you eat (calories)!
The Low-Glycal Diet™ app by BioFit uses both glycemic load and calories to calculate the number of “glycals” in a meal, which is a better predictor of how fattening that meal will be.
The “glycal” is calculated from a formula developed by Dr. Jeffrey S. Dunham, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., medical director of BioFit Medical Group and graduate of Harvard Medical School, and is based on the latest medical research.
The total number of glycals in a meal equals the total number of calories in a meal that will be stored as fat.
The Low-Glycal Diet™ app by BioFit contains over 1000 easy-to-find foods which are color coded as green (low-glycal), yellow (medium-glycal), or red (high-glycal) if eaten alone.
You assemble a meal by choosing the individual foods in that meal. The app then calculates the total number of glycals in that meal and gives you a green, yellow or red result.
The number of glycals will change depending on how you pair foods together. For example, eating two fried eggs (a green food) with two slices of cheddar cheese (a green food) will give you a green meal, but eating two fried eggs with two slices of dry whole wheat toast (a green food) will give you a red meal.
The ranges of green, yellow and red also change depending on when you have the meal, since eating carbohydrates after 6PM can be more fattening than eating them in earlier in the day.
You never have to be hungry on The Low-Glycal Diet™ by BioFit. You can have all the green meals you want in a day, as long as they are separated by two hours. You’re allowed one yellow meal a day and one red meal a week.
The fat loss is almost effortless, so start losing fat today!
Everyone knows that calories are important, but not everyone knows that when you eat those calories you can do three things with them: burn them for energy; store them as fat; or use them to build lean body mass.
What you do with those calories is determined by hormones in your body, the most important being insulin. Your insulin level is determined not only by the number of calories you eat, but also by the type of calories you eat.
This is why what you eat (glycemic load) is as important as how much you eat (calories)!
The Low-Glycal Diet™ app by BioFit uses both glycemic load and calories to calculate the number of “glycals” in a meal, which is a better predictor of how fattening that meal will be.
The “glycal” is calculated from a formula developed by Dr. Jeffrey S. Dunham, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., medical director of BioFit Medical Group and graduate of Harvard Medical School, and is based on the latest medical research.
The total number of glycals in a meal equals the total number of calories in a meal that will be stored as fat.
The Low-Glycal Diet™ app by BioFit contains over 1000 easy-to-find foods which are color coded as green (low-glycal), yellow (medium-glycal), or red (high-glycal) if eaten alone.
You assemble a meal by choosing the individual foods in that meal. The app then calculates the total number of glycals in that meal and gives you a green, yellow or red result.
The number of glycals will change depending on how you pair foods together. For example, eating two fried eggs (a green food) with two slices of cheddar cheese (a green food) will give you a green meal, but eating two fried eggs with two slices of dry whole wheat toast (a green food) will give you a red meal.
The ranges of green, yellow and red also change depending on when you have the meal, since eating carbohydrates after 6PM can be more fattening than eating them in earlier in the day.
You never have to be hungry on The Low-Glycal Diet™ by BioFit. You can have all the green meals you want in a day, as long as they are separated by two hours. You’re allowed one yellow meal a day and one red meal a week.
The fat loss is almost effortless, so start losing fat today!
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Improved food search function
More foods added to database
Performance enhancements
Improved food search function
More foods added to database
Performance enhancements
More downloads The Low-Glycal Diet™ by BioFit reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
Version update The Low-Glycal Diet™ by BioFit was updated to version 1.8
More downloads The Low-Glycal Diet™ by BioFit reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update The Low-Glycal Diet™ by BioFit was updated to version 1.7
What are users saying about The Low-Glycal Diet™ by BioFit
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A great idea for a much-needed app but OMG it would take me literally hours to enter all the foods to go from one screen back to the next back to the very top of the listings scroll down to where you left off forget it way too much trouble but it was a good try anywaybut it was a good try anyway
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Not enough food ....cant scan in your personal food .
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Very Nice and useful app.
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The list of ingredients is so small it makes this app almost useless. Does give you some idea of what you should and shouldn't eat but that's it. Increase database by 10 times and you'll have a useful app. Also allow size entry. I would pay for that.
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App has become completely unusable. Screen resets when I turn it. Screen resets when it turns off it does not resume where I left off. I would happily pay for the pro version I have been reading about on iOS. I still use this about everyday but it is frustrating to use when i enter 5-6 ingredients for my meal and then it resets because my screen rotated.
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As far as I can tell there's no ability to sign in to your pro account with the Android mobile app. I have a pro account that works fine on my iPad at home. Amazing application when you can store your information and tendencies. The mobile version for Android doesn't seem to allow you to have any of this functionality. Looking up foods and what not is a total pain in the butt. Fix this immediately please.
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Just took me 30 days to figure out that the search was at the bottom of the menu list? But otherwise a good interface. Also wish it had autocalc as an option.
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Pro tracker is not on Android. Food list is basic at best. Needs to be more like MyFitnessPal.
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It's great, tells me the value quickly so I can choose the right food to eat
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Can't navigate this! And where do you get the pro version?
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Great app I loss 20 pounds in one month using this app
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Calculator
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Absolutely a life saver. Thanks so much.
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Love it!!!!!!
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Difficult food search, limited food list, no concept of people drinking coffee with milk & sugar (wow what a concept)
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If the developer could add the ability to scan a bar code similar to "MyFitnessPal" it would facilitate a more accurate assessment. Currently you can't find the foods you're actually eating. Just a thought. It is good enough to give you a ballpark idea of what type of carb calories you are consuming to keep you on track with your ketogenic diet.
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Excellent concept. Did low glycemic diets before without the expected results. This fills in missing information.
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Great calculator but even with yellow meals I get hungry after an hour. I'd like ability to calculate how many glycals you can have to maintain weight.
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It's very tough to follow.
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Is this app totally different with tracking and such for Iphones?
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Great APP. Keeps me on track for a fit body. Dr Dunham is an outstanding physician and a role model for the BIOFIT Program. Best physician I have ever had.
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This app needs refinement. User should be able to save favorite meals, and track green yellow and red meals. The serving sizes need to be more descriptive. They should be listed in easier to translate to everyday cooking measurements: tsp, tbsp, cup. I would give 4 stars for the ease of creating a meal. I probably won't use this, as I need more features.
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Absolutely a life saver. Thanks so much.
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Can't download will have to get the book
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The food lists are all jumbled. The search option is not available.... please fix. This app is very helpful just needs a little updating.
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HTC one m8 with lollipop. Screens do not scroll so I can not use the app. Works great on my iPad. Hopefully a fix will come soon.
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App looks like it has so much potential but it is unusable on my Moto G (have not tried it yet on my Nexus 7) because I can not see all of the foods. Also a search functions would be nice. Will leave it installed in hopes that these will be fixed. If they are I can see rating this 5 stars. Thanks for the fast reply. I have up dated my review to 3 stars.
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Great APP. Keeps me on track for a fit body. Dr Dunham is an outstanding physician and a role model for the BIOFIT Program. Best physician I have ever had.
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Easy to use, practical and effective. Great app for GL awareness.. cheers
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This app needs refinement. User should be able to save favorite meals, and track green yellow and red meals. The serving sizes need to be more descriptive. They should be listed in easier to translate to everyday cooking measurements: tsp, tbsp, cup. I would give 4 stars for the ease of creating a meal. I probably won't use this, as I need more features.
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Easy to use, practical and something that will actually be used on a daily basis. Be sure to read the help, about, FAQ's and info tabs.
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App looks great but you can't slide down to read the full information. What a waste of time. Will uninstall
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This is the best app for a glycemic way of life I am extremely happy with this app. Yea I finally found a app that is truly complete. Thank you...
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Its a great app.. but please add some Indian food items and other asian ingrediants if you can.. if you could add many such items it will be a truely universally useful..
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Absolutely a life saver. Thanks so much.
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The left menu doesn't scroll on android nexus 5/lollipop can't search or select items
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Love the meal calculation feature!
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Quick and easy but would prefer to be able to save meal scores.
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Love it!!!!!!
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Helped me lose 8 lbs in the first 7 days!!! Bought the book off amazon to continue. I've been unable to lose weight, have been"dieting" for almost 3 years. This is a permanent life change that I believe will undo years of sugar overload damage as well. THANK YOU SO MUCH, DR DUNHAM!!!! Bless you for giving me the key to finally lose the weight and hopefully get me off medication. You rock!