Nutritionists advise not so much to use a diet, but simply to count the calories of foods that we eat every day. But so you can sleep with a calculator! Mobile applications come to the rescue. How they work, we decided to understand this. Take for example the application that was the most successful – the French startup Foodvisor.
This application was launched in France in 2018, it has 1,8 million users. It is now also used in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy and the United States. In almost 2 years, the startup has raised $ 1,5 million.
How does it work? The Foodvisor app estimates the distance between the phone and the dish using the camera’s autofocus data. He then calculates the area of each product and tries to determine its calorie content. As a result, the user receives detailed information about the nutritional value of the food he is going to eat. That is, no magic, just calculations and formulas laid down at the programming stage of this artificial intelligence.
By the way, it took specialists more than 2 years to research and develop the program.
There are many supplements on the market that determine the calorie content of food and help users monitor nutrition. Each of them has its own tools to encourage weight loss. Yes, an interesting story of the Pact program, whose users had to receive money from the company for going to the gym a certain number of times a week or eating right. The client agreed to automatically write off from $ 5 to $ 50 for each skipping class or diet violation. But, unfortunately, the company was accused of making false promises and violating the law on consumer rights.
As you can see, weight loss is a big industry that is increasingly penetrating even mobile applications. Whether to use electronic assistants, or to rely entirely on yourself – to decide for everyone personally.
We will remind, earlier we told about a unique way of weight loss which was invented by one Odessa resident, and also about diets on blood group – one of approaches to weight loss which already has many fans.
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