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FoodT Initial Reaction

FoodT is a new app that aims to help people eat less calories daily and make better food choices going forward. This is done by playing a short game on an Android app. I'm going to be using it for a full 30 days to see how it changes my eating habits, if at all, but I wanted to give my initial thoughts about the strange little game you're required to play, as well as my thoughts on how misreporting will skew results collected by this app making the idea of 'research' laughable. 

FoodT is played by clicking healthy foods that are circled with a green border, such as fruits and vegetables. Less healthy, sugary and fatty foods like cookies and sodas are circled with a red border and you do not click on these. It is broken into 3 rounds. That's all there is to it.

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Can Food Trainer help you make better food choices in one month?

Food Trainer, also known as FoodT, is an Android app that is attempting to determine if a short game app will help people make better food choices and decrease their food intake. The University of Exeter will be reviewing the research collected anonymously by FoodT. The app is based on an online game which was shown to successfully reducer the user's food intake and help with weight loss after playing the game just four times.

FoodT's goal is to change the way our brain views sweets and attempt to retrain ourselves to reach for healthier, less caloric food items instead of chips, cookies, sodas and gum drops.

“By playing the game for 10 minutes a day, FoodT helped a study group of 83 adults cut out an average of 220 calories from their daily diets.”

So how does it work?

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