Cleveland Clinic and app developer FitNow, Inc. have launched the Cleveland Clinic Diet App, which combines health and diet advice based on evidence-based nutrition science and clinical success with a comprehensive food and fitness tracker. The app provides personalized, guided support with input from Cleveland Clinic health experts to help users make lasting changes to their lifestyle and eating habits to achieve better health and well-being.
“We know that health is about more than just weight, and our goal with the Cleveland Clinic Diet App is to go beyond the number on the scale and address each individual's health status and goals,” says Julia Zumpano, RD, LD, a registered dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Human Nutrition, who helped design the app's program. “We aim to help individuals overcome barriers and make lasting improvements to their health. We take into account their individual needs and preferences to not only look better, but above all, feel better.”
The app also offers a series of curated courses from experts in nutrition, endocrinology, metabolism, heart health, digestive health, weight management and mental health. Additionally, the app is powered by FitNow's easy-to-use tracking system, which allows users to record what they eat by scanning nutrition facts labels, taking photos or recording with audio.
The app allows users to choose between two tracks.
Bodyguard Plan – Designed to help you get a balanced intake of essential nutrients, this course emphasizes a variety of macronutrients and careful monitoring of sugar intake to promote stable energy levels and increased vitality HeartSmart Plan – Informed by Cleveland Clinic’s world-renowned authority on heart care, this plan is designed to boost cardiovascular health, whether you’ve been diagnosed with heart disease, are concerned about your family history, or want to make lifestyle changes to protect your heart.
The Cleveland Clinic Diet app was developed in collaboration with FitNow, a leading mobile health and wellness app developer and makers of the popular weight loss app, Lose It!
“We're excited to combine Cleveland Clinic's specialized experience and content with our proven behavior change platform. This winning combination will ensure users are guided every step of the way as they work toward their personal health goals.”
Eric Puidokas, Managing Director and Chief Product Officer, FitNow
“For most people, one of the biggest challenges is figuring out how to not only manage but maintain their weight, nutrition and health goals,” says Zumpano. “We know that getting healthy involves a lot of factors, so the aim of this app is to guide users step-by-step through the process.”
To support you and give you peace of mind throughout the process, Cleveland Clinic plans are created by health experts without bias, “fads” or rigid nutritional regimens. The plans include:
Empathetic, easy-to-understand content from knowledgeable health and medical writers for every stage of your health journey, a food search and recommendation engine with billions of food entries, audio logging with AI-powered speech-to-text recognition, image logging with proprietary machine learning algorithms to detect individual foods from whole meal images, and fast barcode scanning and recognition software
“Our goal was to launch the most accurate and quickest audio recording of meals,” said Will Rowe, PhD, lead data scientist at FitNow, who worked with a team of data scientists, product developers, designers and engineers to provide audio recording within the Cleveland Clinic Diet app. “This works in conjunction with our nutrition label and barcode scanning, and capturing photos of meals through Snap It to Track It. So far, audio recording in the Cleveland Clinic Diet app has achieved very high accuracy in detecting foods and portions. We think this is a game changer for people who want to log their meals more easily.”
The Cleveland Clinic Diet App won the Gold Award in the Spring 2024 Digital Health Awards for excellence in the Mobile Application category.
The Cleveland Clinic Diet app is available with a 7-day free trial on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
