Point this magical scanner at your food, will count calories

[Katzenfreund]

Dieters are stuck tediously logging their eating habits. The TellSpec could be the missing link for people watching their weight or trying to avoid certain ingredients.

With a wave of the hand, the device can reportedly calculate all the calories, ingredients, chemicals, and allergens in any given piece of food.

Developed by entrepreneur Isabel Hoffman and York University math professor Stephen Watson, TellSpec is a raman spectrometer (the same kind of technology used in Jack Andraka's $15 cancer-detecting device) that uses an algorithm to calculate what's in your food.

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3020813/fund-this/point-this-magical-scanner-at-your-food-and-it-will-count-the-calories

While I have reservations about its accuracy, I expect the device will sell like…hot cakes...
...and then used to count the calories in them.

 

[kirk1701®]

Re: Point this magical scanner at your food, will count calo

I don't want to know how many calories :lotpot:

I guess its all in your head but it's twice as hard to burn it off if you know how much you consume trust me. :salute:

I'm doing 3 miles a day and 50 setups

 

[Film Boy]

Re: Point this magical scanner at your food, will count calo

I try to watch what I eat , and limit how much. That things pretty cool though . FB :clap:

 

[Oldone3pp]

Re: Point this magical scanner at your food, will count calo

I'm on a seafood diet so I know I'm ok :whistling:

 

[bum4evr]

Re: Point this magical scanner at your food, will count calo

me too - if I see food.. I eat it

but I am not sure about that food scanner - seems like it would not be very accurate...

 

[Katzenfreund]

Re: Point this magical scanner at your food, will count calo

What the ad of the device forgets to mention is that it's one thing knowing what has calories, and quite another avoiding it.

In fact, we already know lots of fattening or even harmful foods (and habits) but we consume them just the same, the only difference being a feeling of guilt. And one can go as far as to say that calories are a measure of how attractive a food is. Better expressed as:

Dieter's Law: Food that tastes the best has the highest number of calories.

Or, more generally,
"If it’s something I enjoy, it’s illegal, it’s immoral, or it makes you fat."

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