IPhone App Gets You To Eat Better, Using The Crowd's IQ

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7 pointsweirdcat2 comments

I like this idea- People can benefit from rating other people's food, and in the process act as a free source of labor to subsidize their own use of the app.

The only question is, do we really know anymore what "healthy" is? If I eat a cheese omelet, some may consider that a healthy "paleo diet" food item or a cholesterol-ridden fat bomb, depending on who you ask.

Yeah, but by adding all of those opinions and averaging them we probably get quite a decent idea of a given food quality.

Plus, since you'd (hopefully) be embarrassed to put a pic of that bag of cheetos to public scrutiny, as long as you keep snapping absolutely everything you eat, it should work great in curbing your tendencies to eat junk food.

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