Color Your Plate: Fruit & Vegetable Navigator Web System for Weight Loss
Complete Project
Title:
Color Your Plate: Fruit & Vegetable Navigator Web System for Weight Loss
Status:
Completed
Topic:
Obesity / Weight Management
Funding Source:
VioCare Technologies, Inc./NIH
Funding Period:
2004-2005
Study Design:
N/A
Purpose:
To help users lose weight by using technology to adjust their diets to increase fruit and vegetable consumption and improve long-term weight loss through increased fruits and vegetable consumption.
Further Study Details:
This multimedia system (CD-ROM) combines an automated patient questionnaire with a user-directed interface to access tailored content. The CD-ROM operates as follows: It begins with an introduction video of how to use the overall system (CD-ROM and Web Portal). The system then queries the user for specific demographic data and lifestyle goals such as current weight, height, age, gender, ethnicity, and weight goals, and provides information based on that input. The prototype for the automated questionnaire interface was developed in a separate Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project, which focused on clinical management of cardiovascular risk factors.
Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center