Difference between revisions of "SD2 Obesity Preventer 5000"

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Features

Food Pyramid Breakdown

The Food pyramid breakdown explains explicitly what the food pyramid is, how it is broken down according to each food group and the benefits of following vs. not following it.

Essential Nutrient Breakdown

The essential nutrient breakdown describes the essential nutrients, specifically: carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, minerals and water. This information is displayed to the user via an interactive table. For example, the user can click on each nutrient heading at which point a new window opens detailing the specifics of each nutrient.

Nutrition Label

The nutrition label analysis is an example breakdown of a standard nutrition label. Users fill in a blank nutrition label for a common food. They draw numbers from a number bank to fill in appropriate categories: Calories, Calories from fat, Carbohydrates, Fat; saturated, unsaturated, trans fat. fiber, sodium and protein. The Simulation will grade the label based on real world values.

Preliminary Body Analysis

The preliminary body analysis is a feature that allows the user to determine their current nutritional state and based on that information, they can develop a proper nutritional plan to achieve their desired goals. The user will have the following goals:

• Gain weight in muscle mass
• Lose weight in fat
• Maintain weight.

Persona

Users choose from three separate scenarios to follow. The scenarios are underweight, overweight and healthy weight and the user chooses which one they want to follow. The scenario then lets you choose the type of meal plan you think the selected persona should follow. The user gets to create a meal plan for this persona and is graded based on the persona’s nutritional goals.

Overview

• Player Motivation: The user’s goal in this simulation is actively learning to lead a healthier dietary lifestyle
• Genre: Simulation
• License: N/A
• Target Customer: Health Conscious Individuals
• Competition: Nutrition calculators and health websites
• Unique Selling points:
  • 3 different scenarios – Learning by doing.
  • Allows user to create sample diet without telling them what to do.
  • Analyzes sample diet.
  • Grades user on created diet according to dietary averages.
  • Allows the user to explore different dietary choices.

Outline

• Information
  • Food Pyramid Breakdown
    • What each group does/provides
  • Essential Nutrient Breakdown
    • Carbohydrates
    • Protein
    • Lipids
    • Vitamins
    • Minerals
    • Water
    • Deficiency-related illnesses
  • Label Analysis Example
    • Calories
    • Nutrients
    • Servings
    • Ingredients
      • Active Ingredient
• Preliminary Body Analysis
  • BMI
    • Height
    • Weight
  • Current Diet
    • 3 day analysis
    • Caloric Intake
  • EER
• Goals
  • Weight
    • Gain/lose
    • Muscle mass
    • Lose fat
  • Healthier Diet
    • More Energy
    • Less Sick
• Plan
  • Analyze Body Analysis vs. Goals
  • Meal/Serving Planner
    • Select # of Meals
    • Each day of the week
• Each meal
  • Drop down menu to select foods
  • Number of Servings
• Food Journal
  • Spreadsheet where the user inputs food and drink intake
    • Calories
    • Essential Nutrients
    • Calculates Daily and Weekly Values
    • Activity Level

Game Treatment

The user plays Obesity Preventer 5000 in order to learn the basics of nutrition. They also learn how to create a healthy diet based on multiple body types and different nutrition goals.

The simulation starts with the presentation of basic nutritional information to the user. The simulation then analyzes the user’s body info: BMI (body mass index), Estimated Averages and then provides a summary comparatively to a healthy person of the same body type.

The user is then taught how to read and analyze a food nutrition label. For this scenario the user is presented with a blank nutrition label and number bank. They must fill in the nutrient categories (carbohydrates, calories, fat, protein, etc) with the correct numbers correlating to healthy real world values.

Next, the user creates a meal plan. The meal plan is based on the goals of one of three selectable personas (overweight, underweight, healthy weight). The user picks the number of meals in a day and their contents in order achieve the selected persona’s goals. Then the simulator grades the meal selection based on average nutritional values and the previously stated goals.

Character (Persona) Treatment

We’ll provide three separate scenarios for three different personas and examples for each one. The three personas are as follows:

• Underweight
  • The underweight persona needs to gain weight. The user makes dietary decisions that would promote healthy weight gain.
• Healthy Weight
  • The healthy weight persona needs to maintain their weight. The user makes dietary decisions that promote maintaining a healthy weight.
• Overweight
  • The overweight persona needs to lose weight. The user makes dietary decisions that would promote healthy weight loss.

Scenario

• Analyze user’s body info
  • Get Body Mass Index (BMI)
  • Reference Average for user’s sex, age, weight, height
    • Provides summary of what an average person ate.
    • Provides summary of average activity level
• Input your (user) daily intake.
  • Cross reference your intake to the average (listed above)
• Choose option:
  • Eat less, exercise more
  • Eat more, exercise more
  • Eat more, exercise less
• Choose each meal type
  • 6 meals, 3 meals (serving size)
  • Choose from food pyramid for each meal
    • Recommendations
  • No restrictions
• (After a simulated week) Calculate results
  • Gained?
  • Lost?
  • Maintained weight?
• Did user achieve their goal(s)?

Flowboard

References

Nutricalc

• Online website that calculates BMI, EER and gives recommendations for dietary intake as well as plans to gain/lose weight.

MyPyramid

• FDA approved website that details all of the major food groups and gives the user size/quantity recommendations for specific foods. It also provides alternatives to commonly consumed foods.

FDA.gov

• U.S. Food and Drug Administration website provides a wealth of information on food and drugs: Nutrition info, food safety and dietary supplements.

Nutrition for Healthy Living. Wendy T Schiff. McGraw Hill. New York, NY.

• Textbook that provides a lot of useful information: Dietary allowance, nutrition recommendations, body analysis calculations and useful charts and graphs.