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?

• Place phone on a flat surface. You need to sit still while playing so avoid holding the phone.
• Play alone in a quiet environment.
• May also help to play just before a meal when you are hungry.
• Images will flash up on your screen and your task is to tap on the image with your finger as quickly as possibl. You will win points for correct tap responses and lose points for incorrect tap responses.
• If the image has a green border around it you need to tap on the image for 1 point.
• If the image has a red border you should withhold your response and try to stay as still as possible. If you tap one of these you will lose 1 point.
• Try to respond as quickly as possible.