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LEBANON, N.H.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
isee systems, developer of market-leading STELLA and iThink Systems
Thinking software, has released LabP: Predicting Weight Loss, a
holistic, interactive, laboratory that allows individuals, health care
professionals, educators, and students to explore outcomes of weight
management programs. Built with STELLA, LabP offers a tailored approach
to weight loss prediction; it models known physiological processes and
uses personal data to simulate weight loss under varying diet and
exercise conditions.
“Weight loss is a perfect application for Systems Thinking,” says Dr.
Tarek K.A. Hamid, LabP developer and author of Thinking in Circles
About Obesity. “Obesity is a serious and pervasive problem. The
processes that regulate our weight and energy constitute a highly
complex feedback system which is why weight loss is almost never as
straightforward as advertised, why it is never linear but declines with
time even if the prescribed diet is maintained, and why people
tend to lose much less weight than they expect. We use computers to
manage more and more aspects of our lives, like the ‘health’ of our
investments. Why not use them to manage something even more important,
the health of our bodies?”
LabP users enter their own personal body composition, diet (its size in
calories and, when known, its composition of carbohydrates, proteins,
etc.), and exercise (type and duration) metrics and then experiment with
different weight loss strategies by modifying diet and exercise
parameters to reflect or match their lifestyle preferences. The LabP
simulation accurately predicts how much weight will be lost and the
composition of lost tissue. Because LabP is a dynamic simulation model,
users view the body’s entire path or trajectory as it changes and adapts
towards the end result and gain deeper insight into the human
energy/weight regulation system.
“Weight loss is dependent on physical characteristics and eating and
exercise choices,” says Hamid. “LabP sets itself apart from simple,
one-size-fits-all weight loss calculators by presenting individuals with
information that is specific to them or to the inputs they provided.
Using LabP, the dieter (like the pilot or the engineer) has a
‘physiologic flight simulator’ that can serve as a personal laboratory
for assessing weight-loss options. As with ‘flight simulators’, it is
the perfect medium for learning and experimenting; any ‘crash’ is a
source of insight not pain.”
LabP: Predicting Weight Loss is one of two models included in Mi
Weight: Personal Weight Management Tools. LabU: Understanding Weight
Management, also created by Dr. Hamid using STELLA, is a free, web-based
simulation that can help you better understand how the human
energy-regulation system works, why it works that way, and how to better
manage it.
LabP: Predicting Weight Loss costs $18.75 and is available at http://www.iseesystems.com/softwares/LabP.aspx.
About isee systems (www.iseesystems.com)
– isee systems is the world leader and innovator in Systems Thinking
software. Founded in 1985, isee released STELLA, the first software
application to bring Systems Thinking to the desktop. In addition to
STELLA which is primarily used by educators, isee offers iThink
for business simulation. Thousands of individuals and organizations in
over 80 countries use isee software to gain insight and shared
understanding of environmental, financial, organizational, biological,
chemical, mathematical, humanistic, and other systems.
About Tarek K.A. Hamid - Tarek K. Abdel-Hamid, Professor of
Information Sciences and System Dynamics at the Naval Postgraduate
School, has authored more than 50 papers on system dynamics and is
applications. Together with Prof. Stuart Madnick (of MIT), he was
awarded the 1994 Jay Wright Forrester Award which is presented annually
by the System Dynamics Society to recognize the best contribution to the
field.
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