New Mobile HealthCare Service boosts War against Obesity
May 24, 2005
Telecommunication has increasingly
covered a vast area of applications in the current world
market.
Be it facilitating communication or developing new
unexplored utilities - it has mobilized it all.
Health Care is one of the fields that have been extremely
benefited by the telecommunication sector. New services
aimed at Diet Control and battling weight gain are now
available to the consumers, who are primarily the overweight
community.
One such service, MyFoodPhone, is helping its customers
seek responses and feedbacks from the diet physicians
simply sitting at the dining table.
MyFoodPhone, a Canadian-designed camera phone embedded
with software and the brainchild of Quebec City-based
NATS Inc., forwards pictures of its owner's meals to
a registered dietician.
The feedback from the dietician is like a video commentary
of your week in the food world. You really become sensitive
to what you're putting in your body.
At $150 U.S. a month, plus the cost of the phone, the
service is still cheaper and more efficient than booking
weekly appointments with a dietician or fitness coach.
According to the Institute of Food Technologists, Tele-dieting
technology and services represent an expanding slice
of a weight-loss market worth more than $240 billion
U.S. globally.
With the real-time results and suggestions available
now, the service is seen as a way to cut the chase real
fast.
Source: http://www.canada.com
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