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MyFitnessPal is a smartphone application which uses gamification elements for exercise and diet management. The app provides multiple features for diet management. These features include the ability to enter data about food consumed, either manually or by scanning bar codes [1] and Meal Scan, a computer vision technology developed by Passio Inc., that allows users to log meals by pointing ...
Taub-Dix also appreciates the features of MyNetDiary. “Logging into this app can be done via a food’s barcode or your voice,” she says. "This app takes special diets (gluten-free, etc.) and ...
Fatsecret was founded in 2006 in Melbourne, Australia by Lenny Moses and Rodney Moses. [1] As of 2019, Lenny serves as the company's CEO. [2] The company is known for its calorie counting and meal tracking app, and by April 2016, the company claimed to have 45 million users of its services.
It provides users recommended calorie budgets based on data such as their current weight and their desired weight. [13] [1] Lose It! also tracks data such as exercise/activity level and food consumption [3] [14] [15] and allows users to track calories consumed by scanning barcodes for food products then retrieving calorie information for products.
The Hacker's Diet (humorously subtitled "How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition") is a diet plan created by the founder of Autodesk, John Walker, outlined in an electronic book of the same name, that attempts to aid the process of weight loss by more accurately modeling how calories consumed and calories expended actually impact weight.
A former state employee stole more than $400,000 from a Kentucky government agency by using identities of other people to write herself checks, a federal grand jury has charged.
In addition to its web site, the company also produces personal computer software [4] and several popular books. [5] [6] Many of its products are based on the CalorieKing food database, which claims to contain over 100,000 [7] foods in the American version and 20,000 foods in the Australian version. [8]
Dr. Black's bite-counting diet used bites as a proxy for calories, aiming to limit caloric intake by limiting bites. [1] Breibart and Luce, the creators of the 80Bites diet, claim that the primary factor in weight-loss is the amount of food eaten and that exercise and caloric intake are secondary. [7]