Project Focus
Our project focuses on the simple concept of the balance between foods we eat and the amount of exercise we get, while examining the consequences of the balance or imbalance. We call it the 3 E’s approach; Eat Healthy, Exercise and Examination. By focusing attention on the 3 E’s and offering incentives to encourage good habits we believe behavioral change will occur, producing... Read More
Factors Driving Obesity
Two factors seem to drive unhealthy people in the United States, poverty and obesity. These are not exclusive of each other. Impoverished people tend to eat low cost fatty foods high in processed sugars and sodium. This diet along with minimal exercise is the recipe for obesity. A common sense approach to this problem, we’ll call the 3 E’s; Eat Healthy, Exercise and... Read More
Technology Platform
Implementation of this project relies heavily on the ability of the participants to interact with the monitoring systems to input their exercise, food consumption, and track their progress. The system has been optimized to efficiently receive this input and store it in a database where further analysis can be performed. To ease in this implementation we have selected Apple’s... Read More