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Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

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Post by yomly »

franciscop wrote: post #39

Isn't it strange that in [1] the beginning of the "Normal" BMI has more risk of death than the beginning of the "Obese"? I'd even venture to say that the "Overweight" range has, in average, lower Mortality Risk than the "Normal". PS, another plus for the Metric System. The Imperial System form includes Feet+Inches, while the metric one only needs Centimeters for the height. [1] https://www.infino.me/join/

BMI is a terrible metric - it's just a function of weight and height and a terrible indicator for health - most professional atheletes would have high BMIs due to a high muscle to fat ratio (muscle tissue being denser than fat tissue). It's not abnormal to be "overweight" - "obese" at 10% body fat depending on what sport you're doing. (long distance atheletes are normally quite lean, sprinters are bulkier)

Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

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Post by mark_l_watson »

That is very cool subcosmos! I am also very interested in both cooking+nutrition and AI (see for example my web site cookingspace.com). My contact information is in my HN profile - shoot me an email if you want to talk about AI, food technology and business, etc.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

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Post by subcosmos »

mrfusion wrote: post #58

I think something like this could get really good at estimating calories too. I'm saying within +\- 50 calories.

I've heard that Google is working on that problem. They have way more resources than my one-man part time nonprofit operation, so I look forward to how awesome their thing will be when they finish it.

Will probably opensource this, since I want to grow up a nice research community around quantified self fanatics.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

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Post by DanBC »

franciscop wrote: post #39

Isn't it strange that in [1] the beginning of the "Normal" BMI has more risk of death than the beginning of the "Obese"? I'd even venture to say that the "Overweight" range has, in average, lower Mortality Risk than the "Normal". PS, another plus for the Metric System. The Imperial System form includes Feet+Inches, while the metric one only needs Centimeters for the height. [1] https://www.infino.me/join/

The low end of normal includes people with eating disorder (anorexia used to have very high mortality rates) and some people with drug addiction.

Note that for women the low end of normal is probably sub-optimal.

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Post by jcoffland »

AJRF wrote: post #10

Something like this would be a fantastic addition to MyFitnessPal. I find myself sometimes not logging food on that app because I couldn't be bothered to search for it. On the other hand if the product has a barcode I always scan it in because that is convenient.

If you're eatting a lot of food with barcodes on it then your doing it wrong.

Re: Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

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Post by jcoffland »

franciscop wrote: post #39

Isn't it strange that in [1] the beginning of the "Normal" BMI has more risk of death than the beginning of the "Obese"? I'd even venture to say that the "Overweight" range has, in average, lower Mortality Risk than the "Normal". PS, another plus for the Metric System. The Imperial System form includes Feet+Inches, while the metric one only needs Centimeters for the height. [1] https://www.infino.me/join/

Most people in Europe measure their height in meters plus centimetres.
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