Infographic of the Week: Weight of the Nation & Obesity Prevention

A new report released Monday, “Accelerat­ing Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation,” by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health group of the National Academy of Sciences, outlines five obesity prevention actions that can accelerate societal-level prevention

Infographics of the Week: What 7.68 Million Food Ratings Tell Us About Our Eating Habits

Massive Health visualizes their key findings about when, where, what and who people eat with

Massive Health Analyzes How Healthy We Think We Eat [Infographic]

Over the past 5 months, Massive Health has collected over 7.68 million food ratings from people in 50 countries. Today, they are releasing some of their key findings as a series of infographics.

Innovator Video: Siansplan.com Aims to Simplify Meal Planning & Reduce Food Waste

Siansplan.com is a new a new meal planning tool designed to help families make cooking and shopping easy, fun and more efficient

Innovator Video: Design For America Healthy Food (Access) Project

How can human centered design encourage healthier food choices in “food deserts”

Building Food Apps: The Importance of a Data Framework

While there are several ways technology can be leveraged to package information about food products and transform it into helpful information for consumers, a main component of any solution must begin with a strong, malleable framework for structuring and storing the data.

ScanAvert: The Future of Shopping with Dietary Restrictions

ScanAvert, a mobile application that helps consumers with dietary restrictions to choose safe groceries is much more than a mobile grocery advisor, allowing users to find and track their purchases based on their manageable disease or condition.

Infographic of the Week: Mapping the Satiety of Food

The latest infographic from Column Five and Massive Health maps the Satiety Index against the Inverted Glycemic Index to determine which foods fill you up and keep you satisfied.

Calling Food & Tech Innovators to the Health Datapalooza

This June 5, the best and brightest of the food tech community are being invited to showcase your work at the third annual Health Data Palooza. Hosted by The Health Health Data Initiative, the event brings together over 1,000 health data stakeholders and showcases how health data can create services, tools and applications to support more informed decision-making by patients, health care systems, and community officials

Infographic of the Week: What We Think vs. What We Do: America’s Nutrition Evolution

This week’s infographic is an interesting visual timeline of USDA Food Guidelines, including commentary about the problems associated with each version of the guideline

Infographic of the Week: The Weight of the Union

Today’s infographic follows on the heels of last week’s amazingly popular Carbs are Killing You visual and the lively conversation, and wish list for health and nutrition apps, that followed. Designed for Anytime Fitness and based on the fitness and nutritional habits of its 1.3 million members, the visual looks at the numbers behind obesity.

Carbs Infographic Inspires Health & Nutrition Wish List

Last Friday, Food+Tech Connect posted “Carbs are Killing You” as the Infographic of the Week, and we received almost 70 comments on the visual. The responses are interesting and express the varied perceptions and experiences people have with “healthy eating.” But the number and intensity got us thinking about the opportunities for entrepreneurship this level

Ramen Data: Mouth to Anus

Processed food like ramen noodles and gummy bears are bad for you. Now, for the first time ever, you can see how for yourself.

Artist and provacateur Stefani Bardin’s newest project M2A™:The Fantastic Voyage offers a graphic look at how the gastrointestinal tract (GI) processes a meal of Top Ramen versus a meal of hand made noodles

Infographic of the Week: Carbs are Killing You [Infographic]

After all those years of not eating red meat and cutting back on the mayonnaise, science now tells us it’s carbs, not fat, making Americans overweight. This interesting infographic designed by Column Five Media for Massive Health describes in depth the way in which carbohydrates make the body store fat

Innovator Series: Destin Joy Layne on Hacking Our Diets [Video]

Destin Joy Layne of GRACE Communications Foundation describes her vision of “Hacking the Food System” to Food+Tech Connect.