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Many countries favour using Kilojoules instead of calouries for enrgy input and output. Please add the option to choose in all relevent dashboard areas.
Ignoring the end user is the ultimate insult and really bad business practice. Removing criticism without reply, or action, is equally ignorance and bad practice. I'm now resigned to the fact "they could not give an obese rodent's rectum" about the end user. Kilojoules, is THE energy unit adopted worldwide (USA obviously is outside world agreement on energy measurement).
Simple request: Add kilojoules as an option, instead of calories. Personally, calories is a useless number, kilojoules is the SI unit used in my country and on all food packaging.
Adding my vote would consider buying competitor product next time if they offered Li- also surprised this hasn't been dealt with long ago! Are there any updates Fitbit?
Can you please add the option of Kilojules as well as calories! Most of the food products in New Zealand only have kilojules and not calories. I have to keep going to my Calorie King app (which is very good) to convert. Please make the changes asap as I really want to keep track of my food intake through my fitbit not Calorie King.
56 years ago, the international science community agreed to ban the calorie or kilocalorie and to use the SI unit Joule or Kilojoule instead. More than 150 countires agreed to do this, including the US. So please goddamned stop using the calorie and give the world "joules" the only official unit for energy which the whole world can understand. Fitbit should understand what it means when scientists agree about units!!!!!!!!!!
Similarly, has anyone tried tweeting at them? Maybe link to this thread. I don't have a twitter account, but a little storm of tweets might make people aware this is an issue. Perhaps emphasise the three (four?) years this has been ignored.
Energy is listed on the nutrition information panel as kilojoules (kJ). There may also be a number for calories (kcal). Kilojoules are the metric measurement and must be used on food labels in Australia. Calories are the old imperial measurement and can be added to food labels in Australia as long as kilojoules are also listed.
Based on the above I'm going to contact the Heart Foundation to make them aware of this thread and the fact that the request for Kilojoules has been outstanding for 4 years.
PLease allow the option to show energy used and input in kilojoules. We don't use calories here in Australia and it would be great to be able to select this as an option as for other metric / imperial measures.
Has this suggestion been followed with any of the FitBit products? I have recently bought the Flex and frustratingly it only offers calories... Useless in Australia where most foods and takeaway places list Kilojoules only.
It would be really helpful if there could be an option to change from calories to kilojoules, in the same way as we can already change from Feet, Miles to Centimeters and Kilometers!!
Where can this be voted for? Ridiculous conversion not to have included!!!Fitbit. if it was obvious where to vote for this it would have a let of votes.
There are a few things problematic with the food recording part of the Fitbit app, apart from not having a kikojoules option. However there is an associated app (you can download it via the Fitbit app) called Lose It which does it a bit better. You can enter energy in kilojules, listing new foods is a little easier and items from different countries' databases come up automatically at the bottom of a food list. Lose It entries automatically transfer to the Fitbit app (and vice versa).
But the science of healthy eating/dieting has moved on apace and most apps need to play catch up.
Eating little or fasting for one or two days a week is now understood to be very important (google 5-2 diet!). So an app should allow for different energy intake targets on different days.
It is also now understood that we should eat a little of a wide range of things, both raw and cooked vegetables (not five vegetbles but 20-30 - lots of small quantities rather than a few bigger quantities). It's what the Chinese have been doing for centuries with stir-fries. The super-blenders make this easier for the non-cook. As a result, we need to buy more fruit and vegetables from fruit shops/markets and less food from the fast food outlets. (Notice I am saying more/less not all/none. I am not being extreme here.) But if we want to track our intake easily, some redesign is required so we can easily add a teaspoon of this, 10 grams of that, 20 mls of something else, etc, etc. Basic foods need to be in the lookup database. If only we could access the nutrition info that is in Wikipedia in various articles. But it's in a different format I'm afraid.
A wide variety of vegetables also contribute to a healthy biome (gut flora). It is becoming apparent that a diverse biome contributes to health and to maintaining a healthy weight. (Not science yet but there is good evidence supporting the hypothesis.)
Plus, inexact measures (e.g. portion, plate, mug) need to be in a separate field (variable) from exact measures (grams, mililitres) so quantities (and kilojoules) can be varied accurately.
Eventually someone will come up with a much improved app. I am hopeful that it may be Fitbit. But if it's someone else, well that's the history of technology really. But if anyone has ideas about how to make the current apps do some of these things, please let me know. I am willing to give your suggestions a go.
Someone better take a LART to the Product Manager. It's a bloody 2 min fix, then wait for next update window and BAM. Problem solved and happy customers.
I can't believe that something as simple as converting Cal to KJ was requested 2 years ago and still hasn't been implemented. I'm new to fitbit and very disappointed I don't have this option. So many other fitness apps do.
I suspect we can all now safely assume that the developers have decided to be pig-headed about it. They are making a stance for whatever reason. Donald Trump would be able to explain why. Walls! We must build a wall! Pfffft I've been looking at other smart watches and will walk away from this one I think.
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