Chewable

Big news!! Today Chewable was named a finalist in the DDD Innovation Challenge! We’ve got a big task ahead of us and we’re looking forward to working with real patients and care givers to make the experience of living with diabetes just a little easier and hopefully a little more fun.  
 
We’ve got tons of thoughts on how making food choice simpler can make the process of managing diabetes much easier.  For starters, we just wan to take the anxiety out of the process. Our goal is to take the tons of data that exists about food and make it visual, in the palm of your hand, while helping you see what others like you are eating.  We’ll be revealing more about how that works in the next couple weeks so stay tuned!!

Demo day has come and gone. We still owe a big thanks to the people at Sanofi Aventis and Luminary Labs for putting together an awesome event. Check out the video of our presentation and make sure to vote!  http://www.datadesigndiabetes.com/vote/

We’ve been hard at work for the last month creating Chewable and we’re pumped to show it to you!  We’re less than 48hrs away from demo day, and excited to show you more, but for now - we hope you like Chewie! 

This morning Chewable, along with four other amazing new startups, was selected as a semi-finalist in the Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge (Check out the announcement http://bit.ly/plRsLM).  We are incredibly honored to be a part of this exciting group.  We’ve all seen the statistics about the explosion of diet-related health conditions in this country, and as technologists, we could no longer sit on the sidelines.  We believe new human-centered innovations in this area will drive the future of positive health outcomes.  So we’re taking an approach that leverages data and behavioral sciences to give people a new way to understand food in the context of health. A little more on our approach:

With 35% of U.S. adults considered pre-diabetic, now more than ever, diet plays an important role in managing, treating, and preventing the onset of the disease. Calorie tracking and diet management tools to date have all been largely utility focused.  Our goal is help diabetics and pre-diabetics better understand and visualize the impact of foods by personalizing their food choices.  We are doing this by curating extensive data sets in new ways to create rich, engaging experiences that can drive behavior.   We believe our solution will be part of a new generation of tools that will help providers and patients manage the increasing complexities of diet-related health conditions.

Hey there!  We’re starting out on a new journey to help people deal with an age old problem and we think it should be fun. Our goal is to change the way people manage the connection between food and health. Our intensely individual and personal relationships with food impact health in many ways. That’s why we’re building Chewable.  

Chewable is a new service that helps individuals understand what foods are best for them and manage their interactions with food. We are going to give you new ways to refine and visualize the overwhelming data about food. Stay tuned for more!