Link: Japan tries ‘cell phone diet’
With cell phones ubiquitous in Japan and rising concern over expanding waistlines, health care providers have put two-and-two together to help the weight-conscious send photos of their meals to nutritionists for analysis.
The concept is only on a test run for now, and one little drawback is that dieters have to wait three days to find out how much damage they did by eating the meal they just photographed.
My girlfriend is one of London’s top nutritionists and has also been enhancing her offering by using mobile and web technology. She is already using the iTAGG system to send daily text alerts to clients to remind them to fill in and send her their food diaries. And she will soon too be using us for exactly the above service whereby clients send in MMS of their meals.
Ok Emily may be biased in her choice of supplier 😉 but she has seen a 100% increase in completed food diaries being returned – the alternative for her is to chase and call clients constantly, very time consuming and costly.
steve/itagg.com
PS she’d kill me if I didn’t say that if anyone wants some nutritional help then to let me know and I’ll forward your details 😉
Despite the shortcomings of my own diet, I just don’t feel good about eating cloned farm animals. And according to discussions in the blogosphere, numerous others also disapprove of the FDA’s tentative decision to stamp the “freak food” edible. According to Blogpulse, discussion around cloned food has not yet reached the peak level of the recent E. coli spinach outbreak, though an early surge suggests this will be a hot-button topic to play out.
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thanks!
Japan has always been one step ahead in technologies and 100 steps ahead in sumo.
It is interesting that the Japanese are gaining weight. Traditionally they are very slim with an excellent diet of rice and fish, plus a bit of chicken and rarely beef (except for the nobles). Hey, hey. Thank you for the western influence, they are losing this beautiful oriental advantage very fast. Ok, now they did to take a picture to know if the food they are eating is too fattening. The guy who came up with this product is a real lunatic, from the orient or not. Come on, can't you see it by yourself?
I am convinced with this concept, but not sure how it would adopted by general public, its worth a try though..
A great concept I should say, I am sure will be useful a lot, if the 3 days time can be reduced it would be good… thats one limitation I see..
Cool. This article rocks!!