EatSmart Nutrition Scale Video Review

When I asked EatSmart if I could do a review on their Nutrition Scale they wanted me to do a video review. Here it is:



The EatSmart Nutrition Scale analyzes the nutritional content of ANY food (labeled and unlabeled) by portion size. It is great for people who need to control their weight, and for others who simply wish to keep the best health by monitoring and balancing their daily nutritional intake of calories, fats and proteins. My type 1 diabetic son, Delbin, uses it to count carbohydrates and make healthy choices on what he eats. Since the foods listed in the Food Code Booklet have been selected to be the freshest, whole foods Americans eat, my son has a good variety of good for him nutrition. We have been using this scale along with The CalorieKing Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter book and also the CalorieKing website to calculate his carbohydrates and the combination has worked tremendously well!

Features:

• Calculates Calories, Carbs, Fiber, Sodium, Fats, Vitamin K and Six other nutrients (12 total)
• Memory Mode – Keep track of your daily food intake save up to 99 entries for daily tracking
• The Only Scale with a Nutritional Facts Calculator (calculate nutrients for any food with a USDA Nutrition Facts label)
• Easy to Read Display
• Easy to Clean Tempered Glass Top
• 2 Measurement Modes: Grams (to nearest whole gram) / Ounces (to nearest .1 ounce)
• Max Weight: 11 pounds (5000 grams)
• Tare Feature; Subtract the weight of any plate or container
• 3 minute Auto-Turnoff
• Uses Batteries so You Can Use it Off the Grid and While Traveling
• Included with the scale: 4 AAA batteries, a 44 Page Color Guidebook on maintaining a Nutritious Healthy Lifestyle, and a Food Code Booklet with 999 of the most common foods plus an easy to use instruction manual.
• 2 Year Warranty & Guarantee

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DISCLOSURE/DISCLAIMER: Thanks to EatSmart for sending me the EatSmart Nutrition Scale for free to review. My thoughts are mine and my family's own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any other compensation for doing this review. This video review is not perfect. I am sorry for all the ums and the bounciness of the video. My son, Jaedan took the video of me doing my review and we are not professionals yet :)

Delbin has Type 1 Diabetes

My oldest son Delbin, who is only 11, had been having headaches for the past couple days and we took him into the doctor on Friday. They took his blood, did some other tests and noticed he had lost 7 pounds since his last visit. They called that night to say his tests showed unusually high glucose levels (in the 700 range) so possible diabetes. They told us to take him to the ER that is at the hospital across the river from us so they could do more tests. My husband took him and I have been home with the other kids. They transferred him to the Doernbecher Children's Hospital at OHSU in Portland to get check ups with a Pediatric Endocrinologist (He actually saw one of my daughter, Tatiana's doctors.) and he has been there with my husband ever since. Late Friday night I got word from my husband, Brian. The doctors said Delbin should have been comatose with the levels he had. He wasn't really acting that sick to me, but I am glad we got it checked out when we did. They gave him saline solution through an IV and slowly his levels lowered to within the 400 range.

Saturday I got word that his glucose levels were back to normal in the 100 range. The doctors had diagnosed my son, Delbin with type 1 Diabetes (Juvenile Diabetes) and he has been getting insulin before every meal. They were taking out the IV as I was on the phone with my husband that day. I was so relieved that Delbin was OK.

I feel as if I should get an honorary nurses degree/license after all that I have been through with health issues in my family. My daughter, Tatiana, had all sorts of diagnoses because of a resected brain tumor and passed because of lobar pneumonia in April of 2010. My husband has a rare condition called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) that he just came down with around May of this year and is now being treated with medications for it...and now my oldest son has Type 1 Diabetes. All these things just came on so suddenly and without warning. I guess it is true that "Life Happens". My family has been through a lot, but I also feel that there is nothing that is dished out that I can't handle. Like I said in my post about my miscarriage I had August of 2009, these things only make me stronger.

At this time Delbin hasn't been released from the hospital. I am hopeful that I can learn as I did with my daughter, Tatiana, to take care of him and make sure that he gets the best care possible. This might actually be a blessing for him, because he could use more responsibility. I am hoping he sees this the same way as I do and in time prospers with the knowledge that this disease will not ever defeat him!

Do you know of anyone with this diagnoses? How are they dealing with it? Please share your experiences, thoughts, recipes for healthy Diabetes friendly foods, etc.! Thank you!