Local start-up technological company AFD Holdings has introduced a new app, called the AFD Health App, which can transform your iPad into a real life weighing scale.
A free download on the App Store
Upon successful download of the app, which is a free download on the Apple App Store, users can simply open the app and then put their iPad on the ground – and step on it like a normal weighing scale.
An Android version is currently in the works.
Gives you a public congratulations or scolding
The iPad will then get your health statistics, that is, your weight, body mass index and fat percentage and announce these statistics out loudly to everyone present in the room. After that, it will congratulate you if you are in the healthy range, or give you a public scolding if you are underweight or overweight.
Uploads your health statistics to your Facebook account
Furthermore, the app will request to auto connect to your Facebook account and upload a video every time you weigh in, to be seen by all of your Facebook friends.
This also gives you a history of your health statistics so that you can look back to anytime in the past, in order to see how thin or fat you used to be.
But do not worry; if you are not in the healthy weight range though, the app will give you tips on how to manage your weight and body fat levels through diet and exercise, so that you will hopefully be in the healthy range next time you weigh in.
A great app to keep the rising obesity rates in Singapore under control
According to the CEO of AFD Holdings, April Fu, 32, this is a great app to keep the increasing obesity rate in Singapore and South East Asia in check.
Based on 2017 statistics from the Singapore Health Promotion Board, Singaporeans today are 3kg heavier than they were 15 years ago, and the median body mass index for a Singaporean adult is 23.13, falling just outside the top end of the healthy range of 18-23.
Said April, “We developed this app because we believe that public reactions to weight issues will spur people to take action on their current state of health and to do something about it. We hope that our revolutionary app will ultimately bring down the obesity rates in Singapore.”
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