Getting Healthy with Manuel Villacorta
Let’s face it: The world is consumed with technology. Technology runs our every day work lives, and governs our personal lives, too. Today, you must rely upon social media, professionally and personally, to stay on top of things. And smartphone apps are among the many technology trends that can help you manage your daily life, even helping you to get in shape, eat healthy, and maintain a wholesome lifestyle. WholeBody Reboot is a new nutritional, intelligently unique app created by registered dietitian Manuel Villacorta. We sat down with Manuel to learn more about his exciting new app and approach to healthy living.
Manuel has been in the nutrition industry for 18 years and a registered dietitian for 12 years. He followed his passion and went into private practice to help people with wellness and weight loss. In May, he launched an app to help people lose and maintain weight.
What makes Manuel’s app unique is its ability to individualize meal plans not only for omnivores, but also for vegans, vegetarians, and gluten-free eaters while implementing superfoods and balanced meal education. It’s not just a calorie-counting app, it’s an app that goes beyond, by breaking down each customized meal into food groups and telling the user what they need to eat in each food group each day and week, according to their own individualized profile. Adding food behavior and education as well as exercise makes this app live up to its name of “WholeBody Reboot”.
Like many other dietitians, Manuel was looking for a way to continue growing his business with the help of the Internet. He had already launched his WholeBody Reboot program on his website. Making it into an app this year to keep up with current trends, as well as competition, was a step he says was necessary for survival in his field. “The competition is hard. Not only am I competing with other registered dietitians. But, I am competing with everyone who thinks they know nutrition,” Manuel states.
According to Statista’s website, in 2009, worldwide mobile app downloads amounted to approximately 2.52 billion and are expected to reach 268.69 billion in 2017. Thus, the competition is stiff, but WholeBody Reboot provides unique features that can definitely withstand the others, which includes interactive communication with clients that go beyond face to face appointments. “I wanted my app to mimic everything I do in my office in order to help my clients with their goals, so it has videos, recipes, coaching, and email support in addition to its main features,” states Villacorta. This helps his clients and app users stay focused and in easy contact with him.
After creating a profile on WholeBody Reboot, the user is able to answer questions that will give them their own individual plan, which includes the amount of food in each food group they should be eating for their own goals. The app keeps track of the amount of each food that was eaten according to each food group. WholeBody Reboot keeps track of your daily food intake, daily exercise, weight, and also provides a weekly summary of your progress. According to Manuel, it currently has an 84% success rate among its users for weight maintenance. With rates like this, WholeBody Reboot is destined to get noticed by individuals looking for whole body health.
If you are looking to reboot your body and your nutritional health, try the WholeBody Reboot app to help jumpstart your goals. To get more information about Manuel Villacorta or WholeBody Reboot, visit the following websites https://www.mvnutrition.com/ or https://www.wholebodyreboot.com/.
Written by: Tamara Kelly-Scott, Dietetic Student
References:
- Number of mobile app downloads. Statista website. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266488/forecast-of-mobile-app-downloads/. Assessed September 23, 2016
- Developing Smartphone Apps. https://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/090313p60.shtml. Assessed September 23, 2016
- Listingart P. Whole Body Reboot. ITunes website. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whole-body-reboot-weight-loss/id1107773509?mt=8. Assessed September 23, 2016