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healthy food educational software
Have educational software teach children to eat healthy foods, then have a camera in the lunchroom scan what they actually choose, then iteratively improve the software to maximize healthy eating and habits | |
I frequently read that eating vegetables is good for you.
I think they might be able to get kids to voluntarily eat
healthier food if they used educational software to teach
healthy eating, rather than just a few hours in PE class (if
that).
Now the improvement is that a camera/computer in
the
lunchroom scans the room visually and finds out how much
eating habits have change. Then the software is iteratively
improved to get the largest healthy eating effect. You
could also do more sessions of the healthy eating software.
Now there are a couple ways to do this. One is just to take
the average of the lunchroom, or some other statistic. The
other way is to recognize each student with image
recognition and do adapative teaching at the software.
Cold-blooded cookery
Cold-blooded_20cookery
Inspired by [2fries] anno. [8th of 7, Oct 30 2018]
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference : USDA ARS
https://www.ars.usd...standard-reference/
This might be a good starting place for source data for such software. [LoriZ, Nov 02 2018]
[link]
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There is a food industry; a large commercial sector which makes money from supplying an essential human need. |
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This industry has an interest in making the most money for the least effort/outlay. Since your species is genetically programmed to seek high energy foods like sugar and fat (something of limited availability in a 'natural' environment) these are easy to sell. |
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Since obese humans tend to suffer more disease, the pharmaceutical industry is hanging onto the food industry's coat tails, singing "My God, how the money rolls in ..." |
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Governments also have an interest; humans that die younger claim less in the way of pensions and social benefits. However, socialized medicine is a countervailing force in some jurisdictions. |
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So this is, in a very real and meaningful way, a lost cause from the outset. "No-one forgoes a hamburger at twenty to stop a stranger (future self) dying of a heart attack at fifty". |
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Or more succinctly, "VILE FATS, DIE YOUNG". |
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We have a hard enough time deciding in this country
whether ketchup counts as a vegetable serving. |
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No amount of bribery, berating, beguilement,
begging, or beastly backside bludgeoning will
convince my son to eat a vegetable. Or even a fruit
that he has never tried. It's really that impossible. |
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He hates carmel. But seriously, yeah he's rejected most of
that. |
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We fed him a small bite of watermelon this summer. You'd
have thought we had poisoned him by his reaction. |
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The main issue here is that a "healthy" diet is far from a
settled subject. For years the "Mediterranean" Diet was
lauded, that's having trouble in the medical literature as
the regions associated with this are now seeing faster
accelerating health problems than elsewhere. Nowadays
the "Nordic" diet is something of a fashion. Mainly
because the graphs are all pointing the wrong way in
Malta/Turkey/Greece/Spain and look stable in
Denmark/Sweeden. |
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If you trawl popular "health" interventions over the
decades, I'd say most were pushed prematurely by
misguided do-gooders resulting in tremendous harm for
which they'll never be held accountable. |
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//We fed him a small bite of watermelon this summer. You'd
have thought we had poisoned him by his reaction.// |
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That implies that you fed him *other* stuff at other times.
There's your mistake. One child, one watermelon, one
lockable box. Only one leaves. |
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Professor Schrödinger would approve. |
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// Whatever happened to Vileness Fats ? // |
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Died, years ago, from arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and a massive cerebral vascular insult. |
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//The main issue here is that a "healthy" diet is far from a settled subject.// |
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S'truth. (based entirely on my own conjecture)
Take a Filipino baby and make them try to survive on an Inuit diet... they die.
Take an Inuit baby and force them to eat nothing but a tropical fruit diet... they die. |
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A lot of it has to to do with mothers', (or wet-nurse) milk, but mostly it comes down to what in your peoples' diet killed all of the kids under five like a thousand years ago. |
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Dietary requirements are as personal as fingerprints.
The one-size-fits-all plan needs to go the way of the dinosaur. |
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<side note> There was a diabetes study I might be able to find again that found that returning full blood North American natives to the diet their ancestors ate completely reversed their diabetes. |
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// Dietary requirements ... needs to go the way of the dinosaur // |
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Hmmmm ... now, that gives us an idea. |
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