One difference is that the scales track somewhat different nutrients. Both of them track calories, carbohydrates, fiber, protein, total fat, saturated fat, total cholesterol, and sodium. The EatSmart also tracks potassium, magnesium, calcium, and Vitamin K. The Salter 1450 also tracks total sugars, net carbs, and the range of a food's glycemic index values.
The big difference between having one of these scales and having no nutrition scale is the ability to track what you eat. I enjoy the power over my diet that my new knowledge of what I eat gives me.
Tracking what I eat also reminds me of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle that you can’t measure something without changing it. This basic principle of physics even applies to our diet.
You will probably find, as I have, that when you weigh and calculate the nutrients in everything you eat, you may just skip an extra snack, because you don’t want to bother with the calculations. That is especially true for me with the tempting bits of different foods that our grocery stores seem to offer more and more. Since I don’t know how many calories these free samples have, I skip them. And therefore eat less.
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