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As if our double chins and beer guts weren’t painful enough of a reminder as to how unhealthy we all are, now our iPhones can scold us into healthier eating habits, too.
Two Scottsdale weight loss doctors have created a smart phone application that gauges and rates the nutritional value of the food we shove into our faces on a daily basis.
Doctors Craig Primack and Robert Ziltzer of the Scottsdale Weight Loss Center are the creators of “FoodGauge,” a Smartphone “app” that rates the nutritional value of the food we eat, and gives it a rating in terms of how healthy it is.
“It’s like dumbing down nutritional information,” says Scottsdale Weight Loss Center spokesman Tyler Ratchjen. ” It rates the food on a scale of 1-5; 5 being the most helpful in weight loss.”
Ratchjen says Doctors Primack and Ziltzer try and stay as high-tech as possible, and these days, what’s more high-tech than doing everything from your cell phone?
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The “app” costs 99 cents, and is available for Blackberries and iPhones.
Sure, telling us we’re eating crappy food is helpful, but let’s be
realistic: until our Blackberries are capable of electrocuting us every
time we pick up a Snickers bar, our spare tires are here to stay.
