New weight management application Kurbo keeps children and adults awareness and healthy

Kurbo health smartphone app inspired by the childhood obesity at the Stanford program helps children (and adults) to keep track of the foods they eat to keep. This allows them to keep track of the foods you should not eat, and to keep their progress on the road to a healthier life.
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The path to a healthier diet and weight loss is associated with difficulties, burgers and cookies in the calories in beer school cafeteria filled his favorite bar, but there is no smartphone application that wants to help.

Kurbo health from the drawing request, especially for children, is becoming very popular with adults. Based on the methods of behavior modification to Stanford, the implementation of food control reduces body mass index (BMI) over time.

The system works by the psychology of traffic lights - calories packaged foods are red, what foods are good in moderation are yellow, and the dream of fans of foods that are green.

The application is designed for children to encourage them to create their food and lots of newspaper. He estimates the amount of food at red lights can eat them every day and keeps abreast of the assets of the parent application use. However, he did not know the parents say exactly what their children eat, which can be a relief for young users.

Developed co-founder application, Joanna Strober, helping your child lose weight. If you made him realize a doctor what they were missing - a reliable tool could use your child each day to track your diet to warn food in calories and stay in the loop. With regard to obesity program Stanford that has helped hundreds, but it is too expensive to be easily accessible, Strober found the inspiration he needed. See enforcement community had reliable programs for people over 18 years, created a $ 10 per month application accessible to children.

The application also provides support and advice to use with reminder notifications to the application and congratulations to the user to keep their budget in red. The implementation of the whole family with this price, so that a support system outside of the smartphone.

So far, the program seems to be effective in its simplicity and elegant design. Users beta LePera Tiana, 14, explains how the regular use of the application is healthy habits.

"Even if we to the restaurant, we know that certain foods are red lights, yellow lights and green lights., If I do not like bread, the less red days. Whenever you think about it. Changes the way you think about the food. "Le Pera lost 10 pounds since starting the program.

The request for appeal is not limited to children. LePera mother lost 29 pounds with the program. Although originally designed for kids, the program is based on a simple principle: people, young and old, are difficult to count calories too. Register color? Not so much. Users of all ages can enjoy the beautiful simplicity of the application.

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