Every time I think of this I think "If my gym were smarter about game mechanics and WoWed up all their participation stats I would have +5 Abs of Steel and Epic Purple Arteries by the end of summer." (They've taken wee baby steps: at the end of the workout the screen will say "You burned 120 calories, which is an apple." and "Yay! You've completed your 17th Tokyo Marathon." That's great, but I think two guys and a couple boxes of ramen could do much better.)
The rest of the Hacker's Diet is worth reading and has an excellent analytical approach to describe the eating (inputs) and energy use / exercise (outputs) of a simple model for your body.
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Every time I think of this I think "If my gym were smarter about game mechanics and WoWed up all their participation stats I would have +5 Abs of Steel and Epic Purple Arteries by the end of summer." (They've taken wee baby steps: at the end of the workout the screen will say "You burned 120 calories, which is an apple." and "Yay! You've completed your 17th Tokyo Marathon." That's great, but I think two guys and a couple boxes of ramen could do much better.)
Hopefully soon we can engineer an eat watch http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/eatwatch.html
The rest of the Hacker's Diet is worth reading and has an excellent analytical approach to describe the eating (inputs) and energy use / exercise (outputs) of a simple model for your body.
I've been brainstorming a new app idea for helping create lifestyle health wellness changes - “pay for prevention”.
If anyone is interested in developing in this area connect up with me; I'd be interested in hearing from you.
We are a team of two and have some prototype code. donna (at) genuus (dot) com