Move to a Great Body

Joseph C. Kvedar · Carol Colman · Justin Mager

Apr 2014 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

Move to a Great Body, the first book in Wellocracy’s cutting-edge ebook series, introduces the smart tools called activity trackers, wearable biosensors that monitor your activity levels throughout the day. Activity trackers can tell you how many steps you take, how much time you spend sitting, and how many calories you burn. Some can even measure the length and quality of your sleep. They send data to your computer, tablet, or smartphone, where you can access them anytime. The Wellocracy team will show you how to “listen” to your tracking information to make simple and incremental changes that can be incorporated into your life—your way to grow slimmer, stronger, fitter, and happier.

Do you know which tracker you need and the best brands to meet your health and wellness objectives? In Move to a Great Body, our experts explain how to pick the tracker that’s right for you, based on your personal goals and budget. Moreover, the Wellocracy team shows you how to use tracking information to customize a personalized fitness plan that will get you up and moving in no time. And in our books and companion website, Wellocracy.com, we will help you find your “stickiness factor,” the term experts use to describe the particular motivational strategies that will inspire you to stay on track to achieve your goals.

Identifying and understanding your own stickiness factor will enable you to stick to a fitness program even if you have never been able to do that before. Future books in the Wellocracy series will feature health devices and apps that can help you lose weight and maintain weight goals, cope with stress, improve your sleep, rev up your sex life, monitor your pregnancy, boost your productivity, and manage chronic conditions like high blood pressure.

Wellocracy is a community dedicated to empowering and motivating people to simply—and effectively—track and manage their health and wellness in ways that have never before possible until now, whether at home or on the go. Join us at Wellocracy.com.

About the author

Carol Colman, the well-known writer of many books on health and well-being, is one of the founders of a new company, Wellocracy LLC, which focuses on the burgeoning field of health self-monitoring. She is the author of Move to a Great Body, the first book in a planned series, Your Guide to Lifestyle Tracking.

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, graduated from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, completed his residency in dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is now a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School. Kvedar is internationally acclaimed for his revolutionary work in the field of connected health and has authored more than one hundred publications focusing on helping providers and patients better manage chronic conditions. His work has been published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, JAMA Dermatology, and the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. He is the cochair of the American Medical Association’s Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group, president-elect of the American Telemedicine Association, and a strategic advisor at Mavericks Capital, PureTech Health, and Qualcomm Life.

Justin Mager, MD, graduated from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in 2004. He completed his residency, specializing in internal medicine, at the California Pacific Medical Center, where he is currently a practitioner. He is also a practitioner at Health Incite, an advisor for WellnessFX, and a member of the Equinox Health Advisory Board.