Personal trainers like to incentivize. The promise of a glass of wine, the mention of a bikini—all work to keep you moving when you’d rather drop. Foodzy, a new health Web site and app, claims to motivate in similarly rewarding ways. Users enter the foods they eat, and Foodzy turns that data into weight and diet recommendations; users also unlock badges, much like in Foursquare, to keep consumption competition high among friends (though some of the badges, like “Pizza Master,” seem contradictory to Foodzy’s mission). Read more at newyorker.com…
Thought for Food
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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico. View more posts