E-Business Library > MyFoodPhone - dietary advice from your camera phone
[customer experience strategy - by Karl Long] Myfoodphone.com is a service hoping to get a piece of the billions spent every year on diets and weight loss. From the look of all the graphics they are targeting very attractive women who don’t need to lose any weight, unless of course, the pictures are of women who have been using this service for years. Anyway, the premise is that you take pictures with your camera phone of everything you eat and send it to myfoodphone.com, and your personal dietitian will evaluate your diet based on the photo’s and give you advice on your diet.
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[Camera Phone Reviews] Dieting with Your Camera Phone: ... a new dieting service called MyFoodPhone, which uses camera phones to document subscribers' intake, then e-mail the results to dietitians for analysis and advice. This service aims to avoid the hassle of jotting down what you ate, then conveying those records to a dietitian later on.
[Peterthink.blogs.com] Thinking by Peter Davidson: Camera Phone Life Hacks: Now I've got a new idea inspired by the MyFoodPhone service post on Engadget. MyFoodPhone is a service that coaches dieters by having dietitians review phone cam shots of program participants meals to advise them about food choices and portion sizes. The service is expensive at $149US per month.
[smallbusinessbranding - Small Business Strategies and Ideas for Savvy Solopreneurs] MyFoodPhone & The Mobile Lifestyle Trend: "In recent months, several services have sprung upthat let people use their cellphones or other gadgets to design workoutschedules, decide which menu items at a restaurant are compatible withtheir diets, and even use their camera-equipped cellphones to sendsnapshots of their meals to a dietitian for review."
[Smart Mobs] Cameraphones to help you stick to your diet: MyFoodPhone is simple to use. "You take pictures of what you eat with your camera phone and they get sent automatically to your own Registered Dietitian," says MyFoodPhone spokesman Marc Onigman. "Once a week, on a personalized web page, where you keep track of your weight and other biometric information, you get video feedback from your dietitian on how to modify your eating habits.
[MedGadget.com -- Internet Journal of Emerging Medical Technologies] Teledieting by MyFoodPhone: IMG MyFoodPhone In the Wall Street Journal's article about new gadgets for those on a diet, MyFoodPhone, a new service from Quebec City-based NATS Inc., has caught our attention. IMG MyFoodPhone The company describes its teledieting service: -- It's pretty simple, actually. -- With a camera
[Wirelessmoment.com] Reiter's Camera Phone Report: MyFoodPhone employs camera phones ...: Marc Onigman, the vice president of business development for MyFoodPhone, says in the press release, "You take pictures of what you eat with your camera phone and they get sent automatically to your own Registered Dietitian. Once a week, on a personalized web page, where you keep track of your weight and other biometric information, you get video feedback from your dietitian on how to modify your eating habits.
[Engadget.com] MyFoodPhone “keeps dieters honest” with camphone food shots ...: You know it’s the modern age when you can tote around both your fitness coach and your dietitian in your pocket. One of many new offerings cropping up in the fitness/diet technology realm is the MyFoodPhone service from Quebec City-based NATS, Inc. Customers use cameraphones to snap photos of their meals, send them to a web site and get back advice from a registered dietitian on how to modify the portions or selections to reach health or weight goals. NATS says their service helps “keep dieters honest,” because with traditional food journals dieters have a tendency to underestimate portion sizes.
[Textually.org] picturephoning.com: The Telegraph describes a video footage of an attack on terrified teenager tied to a railing in a dark stairway, obtained as a result of an investigation by the Sunday paper, which reveals an escalation in happy slapping violence, extortion.
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