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Some Harvard engineering students are in the process of developing a new app for phones that will now help you count calories. How? Just snap a picture of your meal and there you go... instant calorie count. Other tools in this program will allow you to send out pictures to a nutritionist(how would you like to be that one women/man getting all those pics?? haha). Currently available to mobile users is MealSnap, which is about the same thing but offers only a broad range of numbers. 

“While remote food photography already exists where a person takes a photo and sends it to a nutritionist, this is very expensive and time consuming,” said Hysen. A new iPhone app called Meal Snap is much cheaper and also relies on crowd-sourcing, but it provides too wide of a range for estimated calories. “I could submit a picture of nuts and get a range of 200 to 2,000 calories sent back to me,” Hysen said, “which I don’t think is that useful.” 

I love the idea and everything BUT, how will they be able to tell whats hiding? This was pointed out in the article. Say for instance you are eating a piece of pizza or a quiche... how can they tell how much cheese or sodium is on the slice (or how big the slice is for that matter???) I mean, I guess a brief estimate would be better than nothing, right? I see where the Harvard engineers are getting at... but I think this should be perfected even more if it is put on the market! Any thoughts? Would you buy this and actually use it?

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