Weight Loss Tip: A Necklace Checks The Food Going Down Your Throat And Buzzes If You Overeat
When you eat what you like, you gain too much...weight! You know that you put on unlimited pounds when you eat without checking it out.
Hence, scientists recently developed Wearsens, a necklace that begins to act nasty and buzzes when you overeat. If you eat according to what this necklace says, you know that you will be able to keep a leash on your weight.
Called WearSens, or a "diet choker", this necklace is a metal ring that you wear around your neck and has a sensor which picks up the vibrations in your throat to check out when you are eating and drinking, reports DailyMail.
The necklace also buzzes when you eat too much of the wrong kind of food.
The device is thus connected to a smartphone app which begins to buzz once you overshoot your permitted daily calorie limit, according to indianexpress.
Developed by engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles, the choker shows after testing 30 people that it does work. However, elsewhere, the reactions have been mixed, with some calling it a "choke collar"----even though it won't choke you if you overeat.
The UCLA team explained that every kind of food makes a certain pattern of vibrations in the neck so that the device can check out what you are eating, using a piezoelectric sensor, which keeps a check on changes in pressure or force.
In many tests its accuracy level is 90 per cent. It is able to tell you the difference between solid and liquid, as well as hot or cold drinks, hard and soft foods too.
WearSens co-founder Majid Sarrafzadeh said: "Many nutrition methods are based on writing down what you eat. But this method has low compliance so we wanted to overcome these issues and wanted to do something that a pedometer does for activity."
According to scientists, WearSens works because every item triggers off a unique pattern of vibrations that is able to detect whether you are consuming beyond the limits with a sensor, which measures whatever changes you are consuming through changes in pressure or force.
