Wed 4 Jul 2007
Nutrition on line: don’t eat your keyboard!!!!!
Posted by raphael encaoua under Dietetic, Medical software
This morning I’ve had the surprise of testing a brand new website: MXS ! Medical experts Services is a … french…. company (this was totally not compulsory) whose purpose is to dig into eating habits. They have hence created a software that helps you to manage your nutrition through several questionnaires.
We first have to get at odds with the classical size - weight - sports related questions. But then the software really impressed me. In fact, MXS tries to understand your eating habits by probing into one typical week of breakfirst, lunch and dinners. The software then treats you to depict all these meals through a series of screens where you can precisely elect all the elements of your meal with simple tools. For instance, let’s imagin that this morning I took white bread and nutella, the software will propose me a series of bread (including white bread) and then ask me what did I put on this bread. I elected chocolate and indicated I took what looked to be one regular spoon of nutella. The interactivity of their system is great, and honestly you go through the screens quickly. When finished, the software will then analyse your meals and give a series of comments on your eating habits. Even though this is only a sampled week, the conceivers of the software supposed that a typical week of eating could be significant enough as eating habits only sightly change from one week to another.
Another interesting application was the relative adjustement of your suppers. Let’s say I depict my breakfirst: a bowl of hot chocolate, two croissants and a banana. The software will process this information, evaluate the current nutritive elements that were ingested and propose a lunch and a dinner that suits me in order to comply to the minimal daily nutritive needs (enough vitamines of all categories namely).
On the left side, our advised menu, on the right side, the predicted nutritional ripoffs…
Honestly, it is very simple to use, the ergonomy of the website is well studied. Thumbs up. Yet, I am confused as I don’t understand how they are making money. In their demo all the features of their offer is for free and I wonder how they are going to commercialize this product and to whom?? Perhaps another great idea with no market. Readers? What do you think?
July 16th, 2007 at 3:54 am
Hi,
I tried to access the free demo, but it seems to have gone offline - a first step towards making money?
It’s a great idea anyway, I certainly would benefit from daily diet coaching, with an easy-to-use application/widget! And many of the nutrition websites out there are quite poor in medical contents.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
How bad it s offline, believe me Nick this soft was amazing and on top of all french. From what I’ve learned, the entrepreneur behind that soft is willing to extend its commercial offer to English speaking countries so there’s a good hope that it’ll fit to your diet! However, talking about medical content… I now believe that you shouldn t be too sophisticated, medical wording acting like a stress catalyser…
July 17th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
The demo is back, nick, try it, it’s great.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:05 am
Great! I’m trying it out right now, it looks neat.
The url is http://www.demo.mxs.fr (if you could correct the link in your post).
Keep up the good work on this blog, it’s very instructive reading.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
hey everyone,
i just joined and wanted to say hi.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Hi! I just found this forum and it looks really cool.
Now, I gotta run off and read some posts.