The TANITA weight scale calculates your body fat percentage using electrical impedance measurements.

TANITA's analyzers are found in clinics and hospitals around the world, trusted for their accuracy, quality, and reliability.
Essential for assessing the risk of developing obesity-related medical conditions, Tanita Body Composition Analyzers can also be used preventatively, educating patients about the importance of maintaining healthy fat levels for life-long good health

Internal Medicine of Southwest Florida is proud to offer state of the art dietary management on site.

Patients who can benefit from this service include: persons who are obese, overweight, diabetic, or have cholesterol/triglyceride disorders.  Physician supervised dietitian counseling is often a Medicare covered service (as well as other 3rd party insurance payers).

For the past several months Marcy Russo, licensed Dietitian and Certified Diabetic Educator, has been seeing our patients for dietary counseling.  She has extensive experience and we are proud to have her on “our team”.  She is available on Thursdays and Fridays during regular business hours.

We are approaching dietary management scientifically using various innovative methods.  One such method is our metabolic rate machine which allows us to prescribe the proper caloric diet.  Proper weight management is a recognized means of improving a person’s blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.  Being overweight and having abnormal blood sugar and cholesterol metabolism is highly linked to premature vascular disease including: heart attack, stroke, erectile dysfunction, and leg artery insufficiency.

IMSWF is very excited to offer a scientifically valid method of determining your caloric needs.  This will allow us to prescribe very specific caloric diets to help you lose weight. We feel your physician is most qualified to assist in weight loss and control.  We can also follow recommended changes to see how the recommendations impact a patients metabolic rate.  This may allow further refinement in diet and exercise recommendations to help patient achieve weight goals.  This test can also be used in patients with thyroid disease to help verify proper dosing of thyroid replacement in patients with underactive thyroid.

We use the ReeVue Indirect Calorimeter by Korr.  Patients should prepare for the test by avoiding eating a meal 4 hours before the test, avoid exercising on the day of the test, avoid the use of stimulants such as caffeine on the day of the test.

Internal Medicine of Southwest Florida is proud to offer the PureCaps line of vitamins and supplements. This vitamin line is of high quality. PureCaps is distributed solely to physicians. Each batch produced is independently assessed for active ingredient purity and quality. Fillers are avoided in this product line.

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