Whether your kids get away with skipping healthy vegetables or fruit of eating or getting an extra dessert at school? If so, they are no longer in San Antonio because there are several schools to install surveillance cameras, with the ability to read barcodes in food trays, catering to monitor what children eat.
This new program became possible as a two million dollar grant from the United States Department of agriculture. Dr. Roberto Trevino San Antonio-based social and health research centre said that when in place, security camera will "snap image tray of food to the cashier, and we will know that was served"
The aim of the programme is to acquire detailed and precisely what children in low income areas with excessive obesity rates have eaten so as to help develop a programme to improve nutrition. Even system is designed to track exactly what does and doesn't get eaten as well. Dr Trevino also said: "when a child is returned to the window, we are going to measure the remnant
The system will provide officials with information on the caloric and nutritional values of foods that actually have children. Dr. Roger Echon Centre and designer of the program, recently showed reporters write, was captured near the elementary school of the student actual lunch tray. Print out clearly show the number of different types of food consumed, plus the amounts of protein, sugar, calories and fiber. He also said that the system will also offer a breakdown of the total soluble dietary fiber, monounsaturated fatty acids and more then hundreds more precise levels.
The objective is to reduce childhood obesity rates, giving schools and parents of comprehensive data on the types of food children eat and the exact number. Denise Jones, a spokesman for the social and health research centre said that the information gathered by the cafeteria camera system, they will be able to create healthy meal plans based on the child every day. Dr Trevino said: "we will be able to determine whether current programs to prevent obesity, and they really change the behavior of the students," he also added that the system will not write image among children themselves and that only those children who have parental permission to be part of the program. If the program is successful in San Antonio, they will try to make use of it in a much broader scale.
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