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Topic: Apps for Healthy Kids
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Yin Knowflake Posts: 1446 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 04, 2010 10:17 AM
Want to write some software for a good cause and get paid for it? We have at least 2 people on here who write software, I believe. quote: The Apps for Healthy Kids competition is a part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to end childhood obesity within a generation. Apps for Healthy Kids challenges software developers, game designers, students, and other innovators to develop fun and engaging software tools and games that drive children, especially “tweens” (ages 9-12) – directly or through their parents – to eat better and be more physically active.Childhood obesity or excess weight threatens the healthy future of one third of American children. We spend approximately $150 billion every year to treat obesity-related conditions, and that number is growing. Obesity rates tripled in the past 30 years, a trend that means, for the first time in our history, American children may face a shorter expected lifespan than their parents. We need to get moving! Tools and games should be built using the USDA nutrition dataset recently made available to the public through the Open Government Initiative. The dataset provides information on total calories, calories from “extras” (solid fats and added sugars), and MyPyramid food groups for over 1,000 commonly eaten foods. We are seeking innovative and creative tools and games that use the USDA dataset to deliver nutrition and health concepts in a fun and engaging way.
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Yin Knowflake Posts: 1446 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 04, 2010 10:36 AM
I wish the USDA's food pyramid wasn't so lopsided though. Eat mostly grains? OK, do they specify anywhere that highly processed grains are actually really bad for you? No. Oh, and they told me(the site has a calorie calculator based on weight, height and activity levels) I should be consuming 1800 calories a day. That's insane. I'm still 10 lbs away from my ideal weight. If I ate 1800 calories a day, I will gain more weight. IP: Logged |
koiflower Knowflake Posts: 1706 From: Australia Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 06, 2010 07:16 AM
....boorish.IP: Logged |
shura Knowflake Posts: 217 From: Registered: Jun 2009
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posted May 06, 2010 11:12 AM
We're looking for computer games that will inspire kids to be more physically active?IP: Logged |
Yin Knowflake Posts: 1446 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 06, 2010 11:24 AM
Ironic, I know. However, you must meet then where they are, right? Or some such thing.IP: Logged |
shura Knowflake Posts: 217 From: Registered: Jun 2009
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posted May 06, 2010 11:34 AM
That would be the standard argument, yes. However, it makes me suspect their intent. Or at least their intelligence. IP: Logged |