"Jump, Shake, Push, Pull, & Scream your way through this kinesthetic iPad game!

The goal of Aaah! Condiments is to capture foods by defeating them in a shake-out battle fest on the iPad. The foods each have their own difficulty level based on their calorie content. Whatever you do, don't let the condiments latch on to the food!

How many calories can you defeat before the condiments take over? See if you can earn all 10 un-condimented badges."

In Aaah! Condiments!, the player holds their iPad and moves their body around to "defeat" 10 different common foods. Players must shake left & right, pull their arms in and out, and jump up and down. Every once in a while, the player will get a brief rest to take a breather. And when the evil condiments appear- ketchup, butter, & sugar- the player must scream loudly to scare the condiment away.

Although Aaah! Condiments! is a fun, light-hearted game, its hidden goal is to encourage an understanding of the relative caloric content of food. Aaah! Condiments! uses a kinesthetic method of creating associations with foods- kids learn to appreciate the real caloric difference between carrots & a cheeseburger. A strong physical reaction to the appearance of a condiment also creates a physical association to the presence of sugar, ketchup, & butter.

America Let’s Get Moving! Is a physically active and educational game played with the screen-free game console Swinxs. The goal of the game is to collect all 6 nutritional food groups (Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Milk, Oil and last but not least Meat & Beans) as fast as possible. In order to do so, players will have to use both their brains and their body because they can collect them by answering quiz-questions and by playing a ‘simon says’ type active game. The game not only explains what a calorie is, but let's players burn them off. It lets kids truly experience the relation between the food they eat and the movement that is needed to burn it. America Let's get moving shows kids the importance of balance.

Number of players: 2 – 10

Sitting at a desk for long periods can lead to poor fitness habits and poor eating habits. Break Pal solves this by delivering micro-workouts at timed intervals right to the desktop. Exercises can easily be done in a very small space and without equipment.  Throughout the day these micro-workouts add up. Users can easily get in 30 minutes of exercise during the day just by doing a few minutes at a time.

Since it is also a social network, peers on the system motivate each other to keep up with their workouts. Points are scored for each micro-workout and users can see the points of their friends right in their own profile.  There is a high level of accountability and positive feedback that goes on within the community.

Healthy food choices with nutritional information are presented each time the user goes to his own profile or the profile of a friend on the system. This creates a constant and ongoing education about healthy food choices.

You like cupcakes and hamburgers, right? But, do you know how much exercise it would take you to burn the calories from those foods? Energy Balance is the fast-paced matching game that helps you remember that if you eat a bowl of spaghetti, then you should go dancing instead of lying down on the couch to take a nap. 

Food Find is an iPhone application that promotes physical activity while testing player knowledge of food groups.  Players go to a park, field, or other large outdoor space and launch the game, then enter their initials, select how long they want to play, and decide whether they want to compete against computer-generated opponents.  The game then starts and displays a map of the players' location, with food icons scattered about the playing field.  Players must run to the physical location of the food icons on the map to pick them up, and once they've collected at least three items from the same food group, they match the food items to get points.  The player with the most points at the end of the game wins!

Food Hero is an engaging and exciting game that encourages kids to make more nutritious food choices and become more physically active. The goal of the game is to become a Food Hero by eating right and completing a set of running, biking and swimming challenges.

Eating healthy balanced meals every day helps you build strength. By eating right, you also earn gold which you can use to buy cool props that help you complete the challenges. If you eat too much, you become sluggish and the sports challenges become harder to complete. If you don't eat enough, you become too weak to compete. If you don't eat a balanced diet, you also lose points.

HealthySocial is a non-profit project based at Children's Hospital Boston focused on developing innovative ways for using social networks to promote positive health behaviors and attitudes. We are currently developing social capabilities around the Food Heros application.

"It's like Guitar Hero® for running" -- Walk, jog, or run in pace with the beat of the music, matching each step on time. With your mobile device* secure, match your footsteps (i.e. your pace) to the rhythm as a fun fitness activity. Earn personal high scores and share them!

*Android™ capable devices.

The Bicycle Game challenges players to pick a diversity of healthy foods in order to win a bicycle race: the more diverse the food choices, the faster the bicycle goes. Over 7 levels, the game increases in difficulty, challenging the player to go faster in order to win each race. Players can also customize their avatar.

The objective behind the Bicycle Game is to provide a short but engaging experience that subconsciously influences real-life food choices. Rather than show direct empirical data, the amount of each food eaten is visualized in colored bars on the left side of the screen (colors of MyPyramid food groups). Over time, this teaches players to estimate the percent daily value that a food gives to each food group. The goal of the game is to nurture and develop this sense of estimation in the player, so that the player can use it in real-life situations.

Trainer gives players the responsibility of caring for creatures who all have dietary and fitness needs. Unlike any other title currently on the market, the Player actually trains with the creatures. When one of the creature exercises, so does the Player! Both benefit from this shared activity.

The primary goal of Trainer is to give players the opportunity to discover, seek and share health information. Through experiential learning, Players will quickly gain insight into how nutrition and fitness impacts their daily lives - removing many of the stigmas surrounding diet and exercise. Furthermore, through a customized gameplay experience, Players will be encouraged to exercise on a regular basis – attaining their fitness goals both in-game and in real life!

Dr. J Says is a match-making tool for food. It empowers kids to make healthier, more evidence-based choices about what to eat in a fun and engaging way! Our app scores meal combinations according to how well they comply with the USDA's Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, and recommends the healthiest combinations to each user. The higher the HealthScore, the better a meal is for you! By using our software, kids can begin to learn about what constitutes a balanced, healthy meal. More importantly, they can start making better dietary choices today. 

We believe that nutritional advice is most helpful when it's available to kids (and their parents) at the precise moment when they're trying to place an order. That's why we've developed a kiosk version of our tool for kids to use in a school cafeteria setting, as well as web and mobile versions that kids can use when eating out at restaurants and fast food chains.  

Dr. J Says was first developed by a passionate team of physicians, dietitians, computer engineers, psychologists, and human-computer interaction designers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. With the help of a National Science Foundation research grant and a partnership with Sodexo Inc., we deployed a young adult-oriented version of our software at kiosks in the Georgia Tech cafeterias. Results from those deployment studies show that 75 percent of our 500+ participants accessed the personalized dining suggestions at least once, on average, per day. Furthermore, on average, the participants in the experimental group made statistically healthier dining choices than their control group peers, based on the HealthScore of the foods they ate.

To learn more about Usable Health, the parent company of Dr. J Says, please visit us at: www.usablehealth.com

Join Thumbs Up Johnnie TM and the Super Centeam and learn about Fat, Sugars, and Calories in the foods you love! Each level challenges you to pick the healthy choice as foods fall from the sky. Play as one of 6 characters and join the fun!

The FItropolis Stackers game is based upon the book, The Adventures of Thumbs Up Johnnie- Adventures Through Fitropolis. The book features aspects of  eating healthy around the food pyramid, water intake and exercise. A free copy of the book is available at www.thumbsupjohnnie.com (click on the school house icon)

Fitter Critters is a game platform designed to transform children's attitudes toward eating and nutrition, while developing the skills they need to become informed consumers capable of making better choices about their own diets. The game is played over an extended period that will typically last weeks. Each day requires a few minutes of interaction, allowing it to be easily accommodated into classroom instruction (see the accompanying unit plan for teachers).

In the game children are given responsibility to make nutritional choices for a virtual pet. Meters showing daily nutritional requirements and limits fill as the player gives the critter food. Each day the meters are reset so they can be filled again. Food may be purchased at a grocer or harvested for free from a garden. Players can get creative by combining foods into recipes, which can be saved and prepared again automatically. Meals of high nutritional quality can be sold for a profit.

Critters who are consistently served more nutritious diets will lead healthier and more prosperous lives. They will earn more money at work (paid daily), and win sports competitions more often. Earnings may be used to buy more food or to decorate the critter's house.

By contrast, critters who frequently exceed their daily limits for fat, sugar, or calories will grow unhealthier over time. Not only will they earn less money at work, but they will be more likely to fall ill and miss an entire day's wages. They will perform poorly in sports competitions. Critters who are fed high-fat or high-sugar junk food will start to reject healthier choices with increasing frequency, creating a slippery slope where poor choices reinforce one another. The underlying theme of the game is that choices have consequences.

Through interaction with the game, children will learn:

• The relationship between nutritional choices and physical health.
• The broad nutritional attributes of food, and the importance of whole grains and vegetables in their diets.
• The nutritional merits and drawbacks of specific foods items. How to read and evaluate nutrition labels critically.
• How to choose healthier breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and snack foods.
• The benefits of keeping a garden and using it as a source of food.
• How the body uses calories, and the effects of both over-consumption and under-consumption.
• The effects of exercise on health, and how an active lifestyle affects daily caloric needs.

As a game platform, Fitter Critters will be extended over time. Starting in Fall 2010, players will be able to:

• Use the restaurant to share the meals they've invented with all Fitter Critters players.
• Grow more crops in their gardens and assume greater responsibility for their care.
• Pair their critters up with other players' critters in sports competitions.
• Build additions to their houses, and purchase more functional items with which to decorate.
• Visit other players' virtual houses to see how they've customized them.
• Personalize their critters and select from a range of character models.

These efforts are all geared toward fostering sustained engagement with a worthwhile educational experience. Ultimately, Fitter Critters is a vivid demonstration how games can be used to effect positive change in people.

Do you know food? Welcome to Food Buster, the game show that asks you to carefully stack food items that don't break our scale. For each round you'll try to find foods with the fewest calories, least added sugar, and least amount of saturated fat. The fewer the calories, the more points you'll get. When you're done, you can learn about all of the food items you had available, complete with personalized results on how much exercise it would take to burn off each item. Welcome to the Food Buster game show!

The main goal of the game is to go through the game-board while satisfying your required needs. At the start, you begin where the sun is (daytime) and attempt to make it to where the moon is (nighttime) in under 15 moves. A move is counted once you let go of the arrow keys. This means one move can be as long as one wants, but it must be in one direction to count as one move. My focus for the game was to emphasize what constitutes a healthy daily diet. I did this by demonstrating the accurate amounts of calories that each food offers and how much cups or ounces the food counts for. In the game, instead of the unhealthy food providing excess calories, they lower your "health". I did this so that players would understand only the calorie amounts for healthy food. Conversely, your "health" does not go up when you get the healthy food but your calories do. However, at the end of each level, if you acquired all of the required food in their respective categories, then your health goes up. 

It would be almost impossible to make a game that calculates the needed calories for every person in the world. Therefore, I decided to focus on the age audience provided (9-12). At the start of the game, the player selects his/her gender, then the player selects age. The game then provides the required amounts of food and calories for average people of that age and gender. Nonetheless, I did place "Older" and "Younger" options for players that are not in that age, but for these options the food requirements are not as accurate.

Since there are an infinite amount of levels in the game, your score is equal to how far you made it.  This is counted in "days".  After a player loses, they can input their name in the high-score box next to the day that they made it to. There is also an auto-save feature in the game to avoid losing progress. If the "Spacebar" is pressed during any time of gameplay, then an accurate food list is displayed.  The data on the food list is in accordance to the required dataset and www.mypyramid.gov

Overall, the game should provide a pleasant experience for the target audiences.  I hope that my game can help the community in a positive manner. Thank you.

Food Monster is a fun game for helping kids figure out what kinds of food can make them put on weight. The game starts with a story of a Food Monster who loves to eat and is now visiting planet Earth to eat new kinds of food, but in enjoying all the unhealthy food he gets very fat and is now unable to get into his space ship.

The guest (player) is asked to feed the monster healthy food so that he can loose weight and get back to his planet.  Feeding the monster unhealthy food makes him fatter and slower while feeding him healthy food makes him thinner and faster.

The goal of the game is to let kids make a choice between various food and show them the effects of the calories intake in a fun manner.

You fly around a table eating food which give you calories.

The objective is to eat the correct amount of calories before hitting a checkpoint while avoiding bad foods. This will allow you to make the three laps as fast as possible.

Used USDA data for food calorie counts and daily calorie needs.

Clicking the link will download a Zip file so that you can play the game.

Balance is the key as you eat your way through this brightly colored buffet.  Do your best to keep your stomach filled-- but be careful!  Eating too many calories will take away the hearts you've collected.  If you've eaten to much, take a run on the soccer field to burn your extra calories.  Happy Eating!

Eat 12 food items without going over your calorie limit.

Clicking on a tile covering a food item causes you to eat the food.

Numbered tiles will assist you in finding food by telling you the number of calories adjacent to them.

Fill up on fruits and vegetables but beware of pizza!

(Click on the link to download the Zip and play the game)

 FoodFall is a simple and fun game about eating right and getting proper exercise.  The goal of the game is to get the high score by catching healthy foods moderately, and avoiding less healthy foods, as they fall from above.  If you eat too much too often, your calorie intake will be too high and you will lose the game!  Eat good foods to keep your energy level up.  If your energy level is too low, you will move slower.  Bad foods decrease energy and have a high calorie count.  Catch exercises or run around to burn calories.  The longer you stay healthy in the game, maintaining a proper food balance and exercise, the higher score you can achieve!

 Health Challenge is a game about both making healthy choices and doing healthy activities.  There are basically two parts to the game.  The first part is making healthy eating choices.  You are limited to eating 2,000 calories per day and you get to chose what you eat.  Each food has a number of calories which is taken from the USDA Nutrition Dataset, and several other statistics that would affect the player's performance in the game if they were fully implemented. 

The Second part is a fun activity.  Currently there is only one activity, but the idea is to have multiple activities.  The activity is a skateboard race.  The way the race is played is by using an xbox 360 dance pad.  The player hits the right button followed by the x button and this speeds up the skateboard.  This button combination resembles the motion of speeding up skateboard where the player plants their foot and then pushes back.

In one minute, explore the environment to eat food and burn calories.  The more you eat, the bigger you get.  The more you exercise (move, jump), the smaller you get.  Each food icon represents a single portion, and when you eat it, you see the number of calories it contains.  One minute of gameplay represents one day's worth of food and exercise.

Click on the provided link to download the game.

"Mogi Eats!" explores the concept of balancing calorie intake with physical activity. The player will assist Mogi to make good food choices by dragging and dropping the food to his mouth. In addition, the player will have to balance the calorie intake by selecting exercises that Mogi can do in order to stay healthy.

Defeat the Mutant Junk Food Monsters by reaching the end of the level. Eat healthy to gain fit and get to your goal quicker. Avoid junk food to not be slowed down.

This game encourages healthy eating.

Once downloaded you can play the game by clicking the file that is named "Play Me". Otherwise, if it is unable to start, you may have to install the necessities to play the game: Cupcake Stacker [Software Requirements Installer].

Ration Roulette is essentially a strategy game. You aim to please your customers by meeting their caloric requirements while effectively rationing out food in various quantities.

This game strives to teach both rationing of calories, how many calories are in certain types of food, and approach a better understanding of balancing nutrition.

Specifically, the game rewards players for (and ultimately encourages):

1. Understanding calories

2. Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption vs. consumption of less healty foods.

3. Making food group education fun.

4. Identifying and consuming proper portion size.

5. Increasing foods with high nutrition value and decreasing amounts of solid fats and added sugars ("extra" calories), and decreasing amounts of sodium.

Welcome to Refridgeraider!

A Game Made by Foy Van Dolsen and Cris Miles
Character by Jacki Boshoven

Your child lost his lunch and the fridge needs to be restocked!
Quickly grab the food that will give your child the necessary daily Calories
to stay active while balancing the daily servings he needs to stay healthy!

SpaceBar: Jump | Left Arrow Key: Decelerate | Right Arrow Key: Accelerate

The Snack Neutralizer is a tool designed to be used in the classroom. The purpose of the site is to open up student’s eyes to the consequences, both good and bad, associated with what they eat. As a teacher I have used this in my class with incredible and unexpected result. The challenge is to be ‘snack neutral’. You may choose your snack, however you must work it off over the course of the day. Certain snacks can be worked off during recess, other take a lot more. The snack neutralizer is a tool that can be useful to anyone wanting to know more about the nutritional value of the foods they eat. The Snack Neutralizer is 4 tools in 1.Find out the calorie count and nutritional value of any food you consume.  Given a specified food how much of a given activity will it take to burn those calories. Find out food high in a given nutrient. You may limit this search to specific food group. Finally find food high in a nutrient and low in a second nutrient. For example foods high in protein and low in total fat. This search may also be limited to specific food groups.

Virtual Shopper is a computer game that mimics the interactions found while shopping at a local grocery store. The main goal is to teach the user not only about healthy eating habits but how to eat healthily while making delicious food that is within preset budget (usually an impressive $10.00 for a meal for a family of four). The phrase we coined for this multilateral goal is - "teaching the user how to stretch their nutritional dollar".

This simulation (or game for short hand) was created in a very popular computer game engine from scratch. All functionality or artwork was done by our team for this project alone. Children familiar with games for computers or video game consoles will be very familiar with the layout and controls to play the game.

All other information such as how to install the game, how to play, or credits can be found at the link below which also has access to the executable file to install the game.

This mobile application for Android phones teaches children the correlation between the calories they eat and the calories they burn.

The user verbally speaks a food (e.g. hamburger) into the phone and is given options to Work It Off!

This application benefits all age groups. It is especially fun for kids because it turns learning about calories and exercise into an entertaining, interactive game that they can play with their friends.

The Meal Upgrade Calculator shows kids how they can “upgrade” some of your favorite dishes at breakfast, lunch and dinner so you and your family can reap the benefits of consuming less calories and fat.

The key to “upgrading” a meal is to make small changes that will lower fat and calories while not making any tradeoffs in taste or convenience. Since most families eat meat and poultry, this calculator starts by showing you ways to “upgrade” favorite meals with turkey – considered by many nutritionists as the perfect protein. This is because turkey has more protein than certain cuts of beef or chicken, is low in calories and fat, contains less cholesterol than most other meats, and is full of important nutrients.

Users also have the opportunity to "upgrade" side dishes or condiments that will also lead to meaningful health improvements. In short, this calculator gives kids the power both to “upgrade” meals and their health. 

Family Meal Planning Website that allows each family member to fill out a unique profile of likes, dislikes, allergies, and unique nutritional requirements.

Fun Drag and Drop tools let the family build a meal plan for the day and graphically see the nutritional results of thier choices.  Likes, dislikes, and allergens are also flagged.

The Meals can put put on a convienent shopping list and the plans and recipes can be printed out.

Shop Healthy provides parents with information to make the best choices when shopping for groceries.  Developed by Dr. Melina Jampolis and a team of dietitians, Shop Healthy gives parents nutritional guidelines on over 100,000 grocery store products.  Parents can see how their favorite products ranks versus other products in the same category based on optimal dietary guidelines, along with better choices. And, there is general factoids for each product to give guidance when shopping for this type of product.  Each product also has a nutritional label. Shop Healthy! also includes great information on how to shop for and store fruits and vegetables.

Designed for parents, this  is comprehensive tool for parent to use with their children.  They can shop by aisle to see the best choices or shop by branded product.  This is a fun tool to  help the family make healthier grocery store choices.  

The Start Healthy Stay Healthy (TM) Menu Planner generates easy-to-follow menus based on the food groups and nutrients recommended by health professionals for young children's healthy growth and development. You can use the generated menus, or create your own - either way, the unique 5-Star Rating System lets you know when your menu falls within our recommended nutrition guidelines for your child's stage. So whether your child is a Supported Sitter or a Preschooler, or any stage in between, the Menu Planner will help you select the right variety of foods to help your child start, and stay healthy. The menu planner is not designed to create menus for specific medical conditions.

 The key to weight loss is good nutrition and the key to good nutrition is education. Many newer diet plans educate the reader about dieting and good nutrition, but come across as overly scientific and lack a true system for following the plan. The Diet Denominator consists of a unique, easy-to-use food evaluation tool that will help you select foods that are energy lean (i.e. contain fewer calories per gram), and are generally more nutrient dense. As a result, you will fill up on fewer calories, select smarter foods that you still enjoy, and fell less hungry. The tool is based on volumetrics, a well-tested and proven theory. Volumetric diet plans require knowledgeable food choices that are energy lean, many of which make you feel full and thus help you to eat less. The tool is easy for anyone to apply at home, at the grocery store, and even at fast-food restaurants and teaches the user about the benefits and advantages of selecting energy lean (nutrient dense) foods to live a happier and healthier lifestyle.

The Tony's Plate Calculator is an online tool that can help you calculate the nutritional values for a single item, an entire recipe or a full day's worth of food.

If you just want to look up the nutrition for a single item, you can perform a Quick Search.  The Calculator will then present you with search results from both the MyPyramid database (which can let you know what food groups you are eating) and the USDA's Nutrient Database (which can give you information like you would find on a Nutrition Facts label).

But if you want to know more than the nutrition values for a single item, if you want to look at an entire recipe or an entire day, the Tony's Plate Calculator can do that too.  By combining multiple ingredients into a recipe, you can find out the totals for the recipe and the nutrition values for servings of that recipe.  Those servings can go into recipes for meals.  And those recipes for meals can be combined into the recipes for what was eaten in an entire day.

The Tony's Plate Calculator is a powerful, flexible tool to let you know what is going onto your plate.

Blubber Blaster is an arcade shooter game that was developed within the platform of Second Life. Second Life is a free online application that is open for everybody to use. The game provides a fun learning experience while the player is taught about balancing good and bad types of food. The player is tasked with shooting down unhealthy food for positive points, if any healthy food is shoot, the player will lose points. 

Welcome to Calorie Quest! Input your basic information in the beginning of the game and the game will tailor the food serving requirements to your needs. From there the player clicks on the screen to move or utilizes the arrow keys. The objective of the game for the player is to meet their calorie intake needs for the day while filling each food group requirements. The normal difficulty for the game is one day is equivalent to 120 seconds, Good luck!

Fully Supported Devices: PC (Mozilla Firefox 3.5+, Google Chrome), Mac (Mozilla Firefox 3.5+, Google Chrome, Safari 4+)

Unfinished: Android, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Chef Solus and the Food Pyramid Adventure is a free, fun online video game that brings the food pyramid to life.  Children enter each segment of the food pyramid and learn about the importance of each food group as they dodge animals, find secret passageways and even ride a zipline.  In order to stay fueled, they must create three balanced meals and a snack to complete each level.  Watch the pyramid light up as the child selects foods for their meal.  The energy bar will fill up based on the calories for one serving of that food.  If they eat too much, the calorie bar will turn red and they will have to exercise to burn off the excess calories.  This game requires a log in so that the child place in the game is saved as they accumulate points and earn Pyramid Certificates. Parents receive progress reports for each level completed with tips and activities about the key nutrition messages the child has just learned.

This game is designed to help children learn about the balance between food and exercise.  Developed by a hispanic nurse, the game is available in English and Spanish.

This game is just one of the many interactive nutrition and exercise games found on NourishInteractive.com.  All nutrition games, content and tools are free and available in English and Spanish.

 Count Your Peas is a website to learn about healthy food for kids.

The site includes galleries of the main food groups from MyPyramid - each gallery will have growing content over time and include images of food and basic nutrition information.

The homepage will feature food that is in season - content here will continue to be updated.

The overall goal of the site is to show basic food items in an appealing way and to remind kids that what you eat counts.

Creature101.com offers a magical world called “Tween,” where the previously healthy creatures have suffered due to the introduction of videogames and junk food to their culture.  Each player learns about the benefits of exercise and healthy eating through a set of activities and lessons, which he or she then applies by nurturing an adopted creature back to health.  By seeing the creature’s health improve every time the player feeds it an apple rather than a cookie, he or she more fully learns why eating healthy and exercising is important.  Creature101.com also incorporates many elements of popular social networking websites, allowing players to create profiles, earn badges for the health games they’ve played, and interact with others in Tween.

Creature101.com has a unique impact on children ages 9-12 because it presents health information through an interesting and structured narrative that still allows the player the freedom to make important choices about eating and exercise.  Through the creature’s health meters, players can see the physical consequences of these choices.  Besides applying lessons to the health of the creature, creature101.com encourages players to improve their own health habits.  As the story advances, the site asks the player to set goals for his or her own health; in this part the social networking aspect of the site is very important, as it offers a support group as the player modifies his or her own lifestyle.  By using the medium of a website, creature101.com allows greater accessibility, as computers with an internet connection are widely available, including at schools and public libraries.

The lessons themselves are not presented in a traditional or monotonous manner; players find out about fat in foods from visiting a doctor in Tween, learn why they like the taste of sugar through a comic strip, discover how much fat is in common snack foods through a timed sorting game, and evaluate their own habits through surveys.

Through using unique and varying ways to convey knowledge and allowing players to apply that knowledge, first to their creatures and then to themselves, while maintaining the feel of an interactive game, creature101.com promises not only to teach, but also to change children’s health habits for the better.

“Crunch Time” helps you remember the right number of servings from each food group (grains, veggies, fruits, dairy, meat and beans, and sugars/fats) that you should eat for a balanced diet. We wanted to make food education fun for kids our own age so we invented the game “Crunch Time” to teach kids 7-12 yrs old about what to eat to be healthy and the companion tool, “Muncher Cruncher” to help kids keep track of what they are actually eating. We made the game “Crunch Time” simple, so even younger children could play it. We made the game fun so that you would want to play it. We made the game for a mobile phone so you could play it wherever you go!

“Crunch Time” helps you remember the right number of servings from each food group (grains, veggies, fruits, dairy, meat and beans, and sugars/fats) that you should eat for a balanced diet. We wanted to make food education fun for kids our own age so we invented the game “Crunch Time” to teach kids 7-12 yrs old about what to eat to be healthy and the companion tool, “Muncher Cruncher” to help kids keep track of what they are actually eating. We made the game “Crunch Time” simple, so even younger children could play it. We made the game fun so that you would want to play it. We made the game for a mobile phone so you could play it wherever you go!

To play the game, just tap on the icon for each food group the correct number of times to identify how many servings you should eat each day. We carefully drew the food icons to represent accurately the right serving size for each food group. The food icons flash on and off and move around at different speeds. The bread icon moves the slowest making it easy to tap because you should eat at least 9 servings of grains each day. The cupcake moves the fastest making it the most difficult to tap to remind you that you shouldn't eat too much sugar/fat. Once you tap on the food icon the correct number of times, the icon disappears! To make the game more challenging, at the end of the game during “Crunch Time”, the speed at which the icons move increases. If you tap the cupcake more than once, the game automatically goes into “Crunch Time” to show how eating too many fats/sugars makes it more difficult to eat a well-balanced diet.

The daily recommended servings for children 7-12 years old is the same as for teen girls and active woman, but we want to make an upgrade that will also customize recommended servings for younger children, teen boys, and adult men and moderately active women. We also want to add a physical activity bonus like a reminder to jump rope or play soccer for the recommended amount of time each day to remind kids what they should do as well as what they should eat!

Crunch Time! is a demo-in-progress. It introduces the player character and demonstrates basic functionality. Animated cut-scenes precede each level and introduce the player to the upcoming themes and challenges.

Crunch Time! is a side-scrolling flash-based edutainment game that encourages tweens to make healthier choices about diet and activities through relatable and fun-seeking scenarios. Crunch Time! allows each player to simulate diet and activities choices in an environment, which visually and concretely demonstrates logical consequences. For example, characters that make poor food choices watch their avatars lose energy and visually gain weight. Good food choices result in maximized energy, increased abilities and visual loss of weight. Final game challenges include physical feats such as running, swimming, jumping, climbing as well as mental feats such as problem solving and prioritizing. The seven levels of game play include an introductory level at home orienting the player to the goals and game mechanics, followed by a Mall level filled with food choices and task prioritization. Level 3 is a water level with swimming, running, and avoidance obstacles.  Levels four through seven include skating, mountain climbing, bike racing and skiing respectively.

Earn the Stars is a merit-based tool for educating, motivating, recognizing and rewarding children to make good choices about nutrition and participating in physical activities. We believe in kids and their ability to overcome challenges with the right incentives. As technologists participating in the Apps for Healthy Kids competition, we feel passionately about addressing social problems with appropriate technology that empowers - and then gets out of the kids way.

Eating Madness is a fun and fast-paced game for kids who like to play games. It is an online flash game where the player must eat the healthy food, avoid unhealthy food, and keep their calories down to win. Based on an idea, and with input from a 9-year old, Eating Madness is no ordinary educational game. Its challenging, exciting, and addicting.

Choose a boy or girl to play, enter your age, height and weight to get your BMI, then start eating! Each level is a meal, and after three meals and a bonus level, you advance to the next day. Eat the food you need, avoid the unhealthy foods, and don't overeat to stay healthy and progress through the game. Use water bottles to keep from overeating! Earn special powers to help you beat the level . Make it through a whole week to win the game!

Eating Madness addresses the primary challenge in educational games: making them fun and challenging. Without using metaphors or abstract concepts, Eating Madness teaches kids about making smart food choices, drinking more water and not overeating.

In Fit for Survival you will control a man that is stuck on an island and you have to try and eat a balanced diet each day(Round) to survive. It has an infinite number of rounds and you have to try and last for as many days as you can. If you don’t make your calories you pass out from exhaustion and lose. If you over eat you become overweight and become slow but, if stay healthy you become fit and fast.

Food Focus: Fruits is a game designed to educate users about the wide variety of available healthy fruit options in a fun and engaging way. The game challenges players' fruit recognition capabilities and nutrient content knowledge by showing them a close-up photo of a fruit. A timer ticks down 20 seconds in which to figure out what fruit it is by pressing 1, 2, or 3 on the keyboard for the corresponding answer. Fruit nutrient clues appear on the bottom of the screen after 5 and 10 seconds to add to the excitement and learning objectives of the game. Game scores are tallied as players progress through 10 fruit photos in a game set. Individual best or team challenges are possible. Ready to play?

Directions:

1. Food Focus: Fruits game is compatible with PCs; Sorry, not Macs.

2. Go to the link provided below, http://nutritionvision.info/html/id74.html

3. Click on link to download Food Focus: Fruits game files (takes about a minute).

4. You may need to accept a trial version of winRAR to unzip file.

5. Save game folder for easy replay.

6. Click on Food Focus.exe file to begin play.

7. When fruit close-up photo appears, the 20 second timer begins.

8. Nutrient clues appear at the bottom of the page after 5 and 10 seconds of play.

9. Use the 1, 2, or 3 keys on keyboard to select your answer from the three answer choices.

10. An encouraging voice will let you know when you get a right answer.

11. Each game set includes 10 different fruit photos.

12. Game scores are tallied as play progresses, and final score is displayed at the end of the game.

13. Have fun!

Food push is a fun, and exciting video game that teaches, and entertains. It's simple, you just push food onto the child's plate to make him eat. Make sure he gets all his servings of fruits, vegetables, dairy, grain, and meat without having him go over his daily amount of calories. If you get him all his daily servings a new day will begin for you to start all over again. Try to get the most points, but watch out for those pesky cakes!

Runs on Windows XP/Vista/7, more details, and information on web site.

Have you ever wondered why we even bother to eat and breathe? Meet your Mitochondria. 10,000 times smaller than the AA running your remote, these worming  little bioBatteries  pay for the endless reassembly of our nano-sized nuts and bolts.  To do so, they play “pass the electron” between our food and air and sprinkle energy-rich ATP throughout our cells.

Learn what it takes to make Enzymes snip and squeeze food for  its electrons, push around some protons and pull water from the air.  There are only three rules: Eat, Breathe and Beware.

Healthy Balance is an Android 2.1 mobile phone application that helps you maintain a balanced and healthy diet. Using the USDA Nutrition Dataset, it is a tool to highlight proper dietary habits, emphasizing on the daily consumption of the appropriate amount of calories, grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy, meat & beans and essential oils. It also keeps track of all the “extra” calories you consume through out the day.

Healthy Balance keeps it simple so that logging your food is not such a choir and since it's on your mobile phone, it's available where ever you go. With a better understanding of how much and what kind of foods you're consuming, you'll be able to make better choices on portion size and food selection.

 Healthy Harvest Maze is a fun game that teaches children about the importance of fruits and vegetables.  Children will enjoy helping Chef Solus pick fruits and vegetables as they find their way through a field, orchard and a garden maze.   Children get points for picking these healthy foods while learning about the healthy benefits, and nutrients for each food item they have harvested.  They will quickly learn that fruits and vegetables are loads of fun and have virtually no fat!  This is one of many free online nutrition education games and tools for kids and parents available at NourishInteractive.com.  This website was developed by nurses and dietitians who are passionate about fighting childhood obesity through early and very positive nutrition education.

The goal of the game is to raise a 9-year old girl for a month, as healthy as possible with providing balanced diet and exercise. You can feed up to 3 foods for each day using drop down box for selecting food. Player also enters the exercise calories for recording energy expenditure. 

The table provides the 5 main nutrition facts and calories from food as player select it. The table shows for each meal, daily cumulative, all-time average. There is also the daily target that is the recommendation for reference to raise the girl healthy. 

To win this game, player needs to keep the girl healthy (e.g., making her happy, taller, or active) not unhealthy (e.g., stomach ache, purple tongue, and Kwashiorkor).

 Highly interactive and engaging tool. Designed for ease of use and access across many computer platforms and internet browsers. No additional downloads or plugins required to use this application. It serves as a reference for meal planning, consumption, and decision making for healthier choices. 

This tool supports behavioral change and dynamically uses data points for increased knowledge of the nutritional value of food choices. Built in interactive tools allows for sharing with peers, friends and family. This tool also comes with a multi-purpose time management tool for meal breaks and other creative uses. The online blogger allows for celebrating new eating habits and progress relative to making healthier life-style choices. 

The information dynamically loaded into this application serves as a comprehensive resource for family discussion, school research papers, and teaching to peers. This is an expansive,  next step and next generation online tool for youth and the entire family. 

The Healthy Kids Toolkit is a unique online interactive educational tool created for the Apps for Healthy Kids contest. The Toolkit has been designed to educate parents about how they and their families can live healthier lifestyles through better nutrition and physical activity. It combines healthy eating and exercise behavior resources from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) into one place. By incorporating emerging digital technologies such as avatars and 'edutainment gaming' designs, and leveraging them with interactive opportunities for the user to create and share additional content, the Healthy Kids Toolkit delivers a set of creative and informative tactics to bring web content to life. By making web content more engaging, the main messages will hopefully be better retained.

The Healthy Kids Toolkit uses contemporary digital communications tools to appeal to new parents who don't necessarily know healthy nutrition behaviors themselves. It is designed to provide an engaging and interactive opportunity for new parents to rehearse and assess the "important role that he/she plays in the formation of nutrition and physical activity habits in young children. There are countless opportunities every day to positively impact the children's lives; small changes in the child care provider's attitudes and actions can help to establish healthy eating habits, a positive body image, and beneficial physical activity routines that will last a lifetime." (1) And for everyone who thinks kids are the only ones playing video games and who think avatars are cool, well, many of those "kids" are now 20-something and 30-something first-time parents who themselves may lack knowledge about healthy nutrition and exercise behaviors. The Healthy Kids Toolkit puts the tools they want to use in their hands, and then puts the web content in front of them so they can get to work.
 

Expedition Health, a new permanent exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, is themed around a Colorado mountain expedition and is filled with interactive physical and digital activities. One of the most popular is HUNGRY HIKER Build-A-Meal, upon which this web application is based. The application ties physical activity with good eating habits in a fun and engaging way, as you build a balanced meal to fuel a hiker to the summit. The message is simple: Eat a variety of healthy foods every day.

According to the USDA, one in three children in the U.S. is overweight, yet getting kids to follow the MyPyramid guide to healthy eating is difficult. HUNGRY HIKER Build-A-Meal simplifies the notion of balanced eating, adds an element of challenge, and allows kids to practice and improve their performance. Here’s a hint to improve your HUNGRY HIKER score—and your health: Your plate should be half-full of colorful fruits and veggies. As First Lady Michele Obama says, "Eat the rainbow."  

"I deserve" is an interactive, easy to use tool that incorporates ongoing coaching.  There are 4 areas: food, sport, study, and chores.  Kids collect points every day in these areas  by fulfilling a set of requirements tailored specifically for them. 

Food section consist of a set of requirements for everyday eating habits. These can be customized for each child and some help tools are provided.

By selecting age, gender and activity level, user is receiving  recommended daily calories and serving sizes for each of five major food groups. Serving examples and tips are also given.

Recommendations are based on  MyPyramid developed by USDA .Links to more detailed information are included. Parents can change the number of points for each food group according to importance. 

Sport ( physical activity), study and chores are fully customizable sections. Link to physical activity informations is provided. 

Every day, child ( with parent help if needed ) will decide if he/she followed his/her requirements for food, physical activity, study and chores by selecting yes/no/not required today/ answers. It will only take a few minutes each day to complete. Any number of children can have their own account on the app.

Results are displayed as earned points and % of all required points, daily and weekly. Based on these, a parent may establish rewards. 

At the end of the day or week, a child can say, "I deserve….. a reward."

Idea Seekers™ Move & Match uses a unique Augmented Reality format to put kids in the game to make food group education fun while getting them more physically active. Kids are the controller in the game – moving their arms and hands to match foods and sort them into the correct food group.

This game format has proven engaging to kids who are interested in seeing themselves in the game and tests show it builds food recognition and food group recall. Played individually, it causes kids to get moving. Projecting it on a big screen for group competition leads to more activity and full body movement. Future development of this and other Augmented Reality games can incorporate more physical activity and additional nutrition education messages.
 

The Vegas PBS Keeping Kids Fit "Find 5 Fun Facts" is an interactive mashup for parents/caregivers and children ages 6-12 to learn and have fun. The goal is to promote a healthy lifestyle for families by offering activities that are engaging and educational. Health related children programs are provided via links to the PBS Kids GO! player and embedded Keeping Kids Fit videos.

Kids learn about calories and food servings as they make a customized meal plan based on the USDA guidelines. The child enters their age, gender and activity level (this has audio and “game help” if they need more guidance). Based on their information, they are given the required calories and servings by food group they will need to create a healthy balanced meal.

Kids travel into a virtual kitchen, cafeteria and grocery store and look into cabinets and open drawers to find the the right foods to make their meal. Kevin will judge their meal and see how well they did making a healthy meal that has the right amount of servings from each of the food groups! The tool automatically calculates their calories and food servings by meal and for the entire day using color coded boxes. The clock is ticking, how fast you can make a balanced meal! Kids nutrition tool is available in English and Spanish.

• Kids can choose their own character
• Tips include recipes and links to other online games to play
• Game board acts as a tracker for physical activity and fruits and vegetables

• A healthy body needs vitamins and minerals that come from the foods you eat. Fruits and vegetables contain a lot of these vitamins and minerals and are part of a healthy eating plan.
• Getting at least 60 minutes of physical activity is important to help you stay healthy and strong.

• kids Cool Fuel cookbooks (breakfast, snacks, and yummy fruit smoothies)
• T-shirts
• gift cards (smoothies & fun activities)

Kids Rise Up is an application that works like an iPhone App but is really just a web site; it even works on non-mobile platforms. It tracks your food choices, every meal or whenever you feel like it. You accumulate points based on nutritional quality, and you can earn more points by answering questions about what you are eating. See a dynamic chart of your progress over time. Add your friends and they can see you reach new levels of achievement and high scores. Share your ideas and notes with your friends. This is not only a convenient way to learn about healthy eating. It’s also a way to strengthen your lifestyle and show off to friends… be a star!

"Know Your Food" give you a very fast, easy and visual way to asses the nutritional impact of a food product. You can also combine any number, type of food products to create a meal. And view the nutritional impact of the meal. 

You can also see all the current food items related recalls on the homepage.

"LiVe - the 8 Healthy Habits" online adventure game was developed to teach 9-15 year olds how to make essential lifestyle choices by using the "8 Healthy Habits"". The opening screens start with an airplane crash onto LiVe Island inviting players to:

"Get ready for an adventure; you’ve just landed on LiVe Island! You’ll need to rely on your knowledge of the Eight Healthy Habits to get through the adventures ahead. If you answer questions quickly and correctly, you’ll get Provisions that will help you LiVe better on the island."

The game is an open BOOK game, and based on information from the USDA MyPyramid and the Intermountain Healthcare Kids Weight Management program, online reading material supporting the 8 lessons is available to the players during game play. As the players answer the questions and navigate caves, beaches, volcanoes and other threats, rewards, or “Provisions”, are earned through accuracy and speed, and help to transform the players’ Avatars from distressed to happy.

The players can track their scores as they demonstrate their knowledge of the Eight Healthy Habits, and they are awarded printable Certificates of Completion at the end of the game.

Lunch Line is a game that mimics a real-life school lunch-line with a fast pace, categorized layout, and dozens of food choices, empowering children to increase their nutritional savvy as they play. In Lunch Line, children ultimately learn to choose foods quickly and intelligently, having the opportunity to transfer their newly-gained knowledge to their daily lives.

Muncher Cruncher is an electronic "food journal" that allows children 7-12 yrs old to crunch the numbers on everything they munch! We wanted to make food education fun for kids our own age so we invented the “Muncher Cruncher” tool to help kids keep track of how many servings of each food group they are eating each day and the companion game “Crunch Time” to teach kids how many servings of each food group they should be eating each day. The “Cruncher Muncher” is a simple and easy to use tool that keeps a running tally of how many servings of the different food groups you eat every day. Just tap the appropriate food icons at the end of every meal and check your score at the end of the day! The colorful food icons and the moving cupcake makes the Cruncher Muncher easy and fun to use. The phone app allows children to keep an accurate count of each serving they eat because they can take it with them to breakfast at home, lunch at school, and even dinner at a restaurant and enter the number of servings right then and there before they forget what they ate! You can even set a reminder on your phone to use your Cruncher Muncher! Each food icon is carefully drawn to represent accurately the serving size of each food group (one slice of bread, one cup of milk, etc.) The grain, veggie, fruit, dairy, and meat and bean icons are stationary because multiple servings of all these food groups are necessary for a balanced diet. The cupcake moves around making it more difficult to tap to remind children that they should eat sugar/fats sparingly.

The app also includes a bar code scanner and pedometer (shoe icon) and future upgrades will allow users to track their physical activity level and caloric intake as well as scanning in and evaluating the items on their grocery shopping list every week! The phone app will make it possible for adults to take it to the market with them and scan in everything they buy to make sure they are providing their children with a balanced diet. The bar code scanner and pedometer are still in the development stage and the icons are mostly there to represent future upgrades.

MAGIC GARDEN is an easy and fun way to instill a good recognition of the major food group categories and typical foods making up those groups. The game uses correct food group selection to advance through the Magic Garden. Master the garden challenges and meet the mythical munchkins dwelling in the garden. They will delight in choices from their favorite food groups and will join your exploration of the MYSTIC GARDEN.

This game is particularly suited to young children of elementary school age. The necessary keyboard skills are deliberately simplified so that even some preschool children will be able to enjoy the game. Nutritional skills are built in a delightful environment of adventure.  There is no material that parents would find inappropriate.

Nerdel's world is a 3D virtual world game designed to educate and entertain children and adults. You can enter Nerdel's world through www.nerdel.com, by clicking on the  "Visit Me On Nerdel's 3-D World" photo box. This will take you to the Transport Station" where you can click on "Transport to Zendel Nerdel's 3D Virtual World." The direct "Transport Station" link is: http://www.nerdel.com/transport_station.html.

Once you enter walk around and explore Nerdel's planet Zendel, there is lot’s to see. There are many things to explore and many more cool things will be coming soon!

Collect all the glowing energy icons that you see by passing through them. You will learn some interesting facts along the way. These icons will give you Nerdel™ Energy so that you will be able to play my cool game called Nerdel™ Bounce. Did you know that I can swim? Well I can! Take a safe swim in the lake with me! You can see the fish and other underwater creatures. Find some more cool energy icons.

After a swim and a walk, visit the “Planet Earth Museum”. Check out the Planetarium for more fun facts and the Food Pyramid to learn all about nutrition facts and open My Food A Pedia. Then visit the President's Challenge Poster Museum and find the secret entrance to Nerdel Bounce. Make sure you have collected enough Nerdel energy on the way. The more energy you collect the more "lives" you will have in Nerdel Bounce. 

We must empower our children with the tools and knowledge for healthy eating, good nutrition and exercise. The Nerdel™ Company is a new and innovative company that was developed by a team of doctors, nutritionists, chefs and fitness experts to address the issues of children’s obesity, hunger, fitness and health. Together we are on a mission to empower our children with the knowledge to make better nutritional choices, and to take charge of their own physical fitness and well being.

The Nerdel™ Company will focus its efforts on educating the children of the United States and the world about healthy nutrition and physical activity. Through its multimedia approach with music, books, games, interactive website, cartoons, and 3D virtual world Nerdel™ and The Nerdel™ Company team will be able to reach the kids of the world, in a media form that is cool and fun to follow.

Kids and their parents can log on to http://www.nerdel.com to check out the Nerdel™ News. Here they can learn about nutrition, read about sports, get some great healthy and delicious recipes and stay up to date on lots of cool information. The Nerdel™ Company is proud to be a Corporate Advocate of the President’s Challenge and Physical Fitness Initiative.

The Nerdel™ Company is a company devoted to making children and adults all over the world more aware of healthy eating, healthy cooking and physical fitness. We are dedicated to making a present and future world of healthier children and adults.

Fighting Junk and Bad Nutrition is Our Mission!™

Join Nerdel™ and The Nerdel™ Company Team on our mission, at www.nerdel.com.

This web app produces a healthy grocery list you print out and take to the store.  You search from over 7000 items to find low calorie, low salt, low sugar, and low fat foods.  Bonus info is given on trans fat, caffeine, and high fiber foods.  Unique 'stoplight' (green, yellow, red) coloring of foods makes healthy selections fast and easy.  The latest freetext search techniques are used to find an abundance of  healthy alternatives.  Foods are grouped by USDA MyPyramid food groups.  Buying more healthy foods is an important step in a proper diet!

Foods are automatically updated with the latest foods from the USDA SR data bases as changes happen so you always have the latest information.  This is a Microsoft Silverlight 4.0 web app using the latest data display/access methods. Its great for children of all ages. It is best viewed with IE 8.0 32-bit browser.

Training video shows full captioned transcript for Spanish and 52 other languages.

Nutritionville, USA is a few games in one.  It has an over arching exploratory type gameplay, and then sprinkeled throughout are different mini-games.

The point of the over arching game is to collect various pieces of food for a meal.  The player needs to do this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  The player gets the pieces of food by completing the mini-games.

There are two distinct mini-games (each with variations).  There is an item matching game that, depending on the variation, uses different items to match i.e. dairy products, meat products, wheat products, and fruits and vegetables.  The other game is an object catch game.  One version has the player catching eggs falling from a chicken coop, and the other has them catching apples from a tree.

Otter Chomp is a video game that uses the character OPIE the Otter, public health mascot, to teach chidren to eat healty foods.  A truckload of food has spilled into the river and OPIE swims in the water trying to navigate his way through a stream of food options, some healthier than others.  The more OPIE eats and chooses healthy foods, the faster he swims but if he eats too much of either good or bad choices, he slows down.  The goal is to learn to eat proper portion sizes and balance choices to become healthier.  The game also models physical activity as OPIE is swimming throughout the game.

“Parrot Pyramid” is an online Flash game that makes learning about the Food Pyramid more fun for kids.  Focusing on the five (5) main food groups (Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Milk and Meat & Beans) this simple yet engaging game gives kids food facts and tests their knowledge through a series of fun activities. Learn what foods are part of each group, how much you need and what benefits each food brings. Filled with bright colors, engaging animation and fun game play “Parrot Pyramid” is designed to introduce kids to the USDA Food Pyramid in an innovative way and help them make healthier food choices.

ZisBoomBah is an innovative website that challenges conventional wisdom and develops tools to empower children and inspire parents to live a fun, active and healthy life. ZisBoomBah’s free online tool “Pick Chow!” allows children to create meals by dragging and dropping foods onto their virtual plate. The “Add it Up!” meters show the nutritional values in a fun and easy way and rates each meal with one to five stars – a feature that helps children learn quickly how their choices make a difference in creating a well-balanced meal. Children can send their “chow” to their parents, who then receive an email with what their child has chosen to be a healthy choice for breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with the menu, recipe, shopping list and coupons.

Behind ZisBoomBah is a panel of health, nutrition and food experts and a team of experienced entrepreneurs who strive to ensure that the site’s content is sound and the recipes are as delicious for kids as they are nutritious.

Pop Food is a fun iPhone/iPod touch/iPad game where kids learn food groups by spelling food names.

When a round starts, the game shows the food group to which the food name to spell belongs

Each letter of the food is then shown on the screen, floating above a beautiful background, bouncing against each other.

Kids quickly try to find which food name it is, e.g. "BANANA", and when they spelled out the complete word, BONUS messages great them with additional information about this food, e.g. "HIGH IN POTASSIUM".

With Pop Food, kids have a fun time to learn food groupds and how to spell food names.

Pyramid Pile Up Plus is an online Flash puzzle game where the player must fill an empty pyramid with food tiles. Play against the Chompies--flying squirrel monsters that fall from the sky to munch on your work. Strategy is key, not speed, as only a limited number of moves are allotted to build the pyramid correctly. Discover which foods go in which food groups, and learn about the concept of discretionary calories. Read the nutrition labels to make healthier choices, and win extra points by choosing a variety of fruits, whole grains, low fat dairies and green vegetables. Pyramid Pile Up Plus is available in both English and Spanish and comes complete with high score list, teacher guide, classroom activities, student assessments and a printable poster.

REVOLTING VEGETABLES:

Eat Them Before They Eat You!

Episode 1: The Uneatables

"The villianous mobster, Al Capoche, has caused the farmers' vegetables to come to life.  Now Capoche and his vegetable mob threaten to overrun the whole town.  Only you can stop Capoche and the forces of evil!"

Revolting Vegetables is an RPG where the player levels up by eating a balanced diet.  The player must meet all of the food requirements for each level, but if they go over the calorie limit then all of their progress is reset.  The player encounters vegetable monsters and other characters along the way on their quest to defeat the evil cabbage, Al Capoche.  The player acquires vegetables and money from defeating monsters, and they must use the money they've gained to buy other types of foods to meet all of the leveling requirements.

Revolting Vegetables incorporates the following nutrition and health concepts:

Making food group education fun.

Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption.

Focusing on consuming more low- or non-fat milk

Choosing lean sources of protein

Balancing physical activity and food intake

Robot Dance Factory is a super fun game in which kids and adults become robot fitness experts.  Each player feeds their robot avatar, providing it with enough energy to compete in dance-off competitions. Feed that robot right and it will have some awesome moves and lots of stamina!  Each mission has different nutritional requirements that are satisfied by food selected from the pantry and fed to the robot.

Robot Dance Party incorporates the nutritional data directly into play, subsequently associating this knowledge with fun!  Each ingredient choice the player makes corresponds to nutritional data from the USDA’s extensive database.  Meal missions are customizable; meaning a mission can teach healthy eating in a vast number of categories (Fast food, Mexican, BBQ, etc).  As levels advance, nutritional requirements are not limited to a single piece of data, but begin to incorporate things like sodium, fiber, and caffeine.  Robot Dance Factory harnesses the innate teaching ability of games to help create a playful puzzle mechanic that educates through real data.

DataPlayed is a data game design group comprised of nutritionists, game designers, programmers, and data experts.  They strive to create interactive and fun ways to play with data.

"School Lunch - What's on Your Tray?" helps students learn that eating a healthy and nutritious school lunch with lowfat milk is essential to help them get the most out of your action-packed day! Whether it’s a literal school lunch tray, or a busy academic and social calendar, what's on a tray says a lot about a student's personality! The highlight of the "School Lunch - What's on Your Tray?' campaign is a personality quiz that will helps students find out how their school lunch profile stacks up and learn what foods are best to keep them healthy! Lunches and lunch “personalities” are based on the National School Lunch program, and the USDA MyPyramid food groups and recommendations.

Sporks Up is a web based video game designed to educate children about nutrition and encourage healthy food choices at home and in school. Structured around the USDA Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) and the most recent USDA dietary guidelines, Sporks Up both assesses a child's individual nutritional knowledge and educates him or her on a variety of areas of nutrition including food groups, vitamins, minerals, total caloric intake and the composition of healthy, well balanced meals.

The goal of the game is to engage the child in an active learning process whereby the child learns from the game while the game adapts to the child - altering the question content to target a child's individual area of difficulty. The game asks multiple choice questions of players in a fun gaming environment to assess their knowledge and provides feedback and education to facilitate learning. Mastering the game means knowing about the foods we eat and how to eat a healthy, balanced diet. The game is composed of 3 mini-games: Food Fight, Cheeseboard and Lunch Line.

In Food Fight, the player answers questions in the lunchroom about food groups and nutrient content by dragging their selection into a food cannon. Get the question correct and you get to fire the food-filled cannon, starting a Food Fight!

Cheeseboard is a blackboard lesson in a classroom. Answer questions by selecting from a serious of choices and receive feedback written on the chalkboard.

Lunch Line places the player in front of a conveyor belt of foods encountered every day.

The player must fill their tray to construct balanced and complete meals for the day. The goals are more complex – just like real-life food choices – trying to balance daily caloric intake, food groups and nutrient goals.

STAVO: Food Flight OS

BRIEF SUMMARY

The game puts you in control of an operating system aboard an alien spaceship called STAVO. Piloting the spaceship is an alien named Zheekei. The alien belongs to the Ayum species from the planet Amayilla. Feed the alien the proper amount of healthy foods for the day so that it has enough energy to pedal it's spaceship back home in one piece.

IN DETAIL

As the controller of the OS (operating system) you must monitor and organize Zheekei's meals for the day, ensuring the alien recieves the proper amount of nutrition (the alien requires the same amount of daily nutrients as a 9-13 year old earth child). This is important because the meals need to give Zheekei enough energy to pedal it's spaceship back to Ayamilla (home planet).

Feeding too little will fail to give Zheekei the proper amount of energy to pedal home. Feeding too much will send the spaceship flying past the target. The proper balance of nutrients is needed to see the spaceship land safely home. As the controller, if you feel you didn't organize the proper meal (or you fed the alien too much) you can command the alien to excercise in order to burn off the calories and start over again before setting course for home.

The game menu includes ingredients found on earth that fit the USDA food groups and requirements. Foods can be mixed and matched to make special dishes that provide Zheekei with a healthy diet. STAVO: Food Flight OS is a unique and creative game designed to get children engaged and learn about nutrition. The game is both fun and educational.

REQUIREMENTS

This is an XNA game that needs certain requirements to run.

- Must have XNA Game Studio installed.

See link below

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb464158.aspx

**During the Game Studio download, you will also be prompted to download Visual Studio C#, but don't worry - all the required installation are FREE

DEMO VERSION INFO

This submission is the demo version of what will and can be expanded to a deep gaming experience. Expansions include a fully detailed menu, additions to excercise options and potential for fun minigames to make the experience even more entertaining. Different parts of the spaceship and even home planet can be opened up for new opportunities in educational gameplay. The game also has the potential to be adapted for real time gameplay, requiring the players to feed the alien during the proper time of day over the course of several days.

This version can be played with a keyboard or a proper USB Xbox controller that can be plugged into a PC. The game is not only ready for an online release but is also ready for a release on the Xbox Live arcade and compatible with the Zune as well.

Thank you for taking the time to check out our game

Amanda Dittami, Anthony Sixto

The HUnter Gatherer Game is a treasure-hunt generator.  It allows users to create a fun activity for children to play that not only gets them moving and reading, it teaches them about nutrition.  This web application is a mash-up that takes what some might consider boring information about nutrition and uses it to create a personalized game that is challenging and fun to play.  The game can gently teach players about the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables while engaging them in physical activity.  Parents and teachers can now easily create opportunities to include information about nutrition (and soon other topics) as a part of actual play.

While playing the fun interactive game What Food Am I? from the Food N' Me family nutrition website, children assess foods they ate yesterday, learn about their eating habits and discover ways to balance their diet today. Children and parents receive recommendation-packed reports, recipes and activities.

What Food Am I? uses a first-person augmented reality perspective:  Children pile their plate with the foods they have eaten on a given day, from meals to snacks. They drag-and-drop from a scrollable menu bar photographs of foods commonly eaten by American children in standard serving sizes. Moving dials highlight food groups of foods chosen, while animations show children when they reach recommended values. It’s a lively, realistic way for children to measure if they are eating equally from each food group.

In the final, colorful Child Report, the child’s character – determined by the day’s food choices - makes recommendations based on their daily intake and customizes a recipe for their needs. For example, if low in dairy, the suggested recipe is a yogurt parfait, which Crazy Chef prepares in a video. Additionally, a companion activity encourages the eating of colorful foods to foster balanced nutrition.

Photos of food and live-person videos connect the game to the child's real world, while including parents creates a climate of collaboration. 

A Parent Report, available at the end of play, invites parents to join in the process – a crucial step for change.  The report explains game components, offers talking points and recommended daily requirements based on age and gender, and a shopping list activity encouraging healthy eating and togetherness.

What Food Am I?’s recommendations and game design are based on the knowledge and input of Food N’ Me’s panel of experienced nutrition and instructional design experts, children and parents.

Habit Changer is a system that helps make you more aware and guides you through change. It gives you experiences - your choice of email, web, or text - that lead you through the skills you need to solve the issues you face.

Feeding Your Kids is a 42-day program shows you how to make small changes every day to get your children to choose healthier foods on their own, gaining healthy eating habits that last a lifetime. It provides ideas, referrals, recipes and feeding tips, tools, and inspiration. It combines a broad range of research and the personal recommendations of parents who have struggled with the same issues and found answers that worked.

In partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative, this program is free to all parents.

How Wheat Works (www.howwheatworks.com) is an interactive and educational, online multimedia program that delivers a farm-to-fork education on wheat, enabling a better understanding of its nutritional value. Participants of all ages can virtually grow, harvest and mill their own kernels of wheat to create their desired wheat food. The program has 4 phases - growth, harvest, milling/baking and grocer's aisle - which take a few minutes to complete. Interactive activities include the selection of the type of wheat to be grown and milled. Activity suggestions at the end of each phase allow participants to extend their learning experience through preparing wheat-based recipes, exploring wheat grown in their area through state wheat commission member sites and viewing harvest videos from "America's Heartland." For each participant who completes the program, the Wheat Foods Council will donate two pounds of flour, up to 90,000 pounds, to Operation Homefront, a non-profit that provides assistance to needy U.S. troops and their families.

With LabelGuide, Choosing Safer, Healthier Foods For Your Family Has Never Been Simpler...

From any phone, and from any browser, our app at myLG.mobi is empowering average citizens with facts about the quality of their food supply - without any added hype or cynicism. Our free app has three powerful tools to help you get the most out of your meals:

Seafood & Mercury: Learn How to Reduce Mercury Exposure & Increase Nutritional Value When Serving Fish

According to the FDA, a well-balanced diet that includes a variety of fish can contribute to heart health and children's proper growth and development. However, nearly all fish and shellfish contain traces of methylmercury. Based on federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines and solid nutritional science, myLabelGuide will calculate the maximum servings you can safely eat before you exceed the EPA's mercury expose threshold. You'll also see popular ways to prepare the fish, along with several ratings - our nutritional grade called "Good4Me", Total EPA/DHA/Omega-3 Fatty Acids per Serving, and Available Carbs with Glycemic levels - so you can compare the recipes by how much nutrition they seal in per bite. As an added benefit, we also present seafood names in Spanish, and each item's Kashruth status.

Produce & Pesticides: Your Guide to Finding Produce with Low Risk of Pesticide Residue, and High Nutritional Value

In 2009, the President's Cancer Panel recommended that consumers (especially pregnant women) choose foods without pesticides as a way to lower lifetime risk of cancer and other illnesses. Based on the over 12,000 grocery samples analyzed by the USDA's most recent Pesticide Data Program, we've built an easy-to-use guide to dozens of common fruits and vegetables, so you can understand the odds of choosing a product with no detectable pesticides, based on the country of origin and the claims on the label. We've also graded the healthfulness of some popular ways to prepare this food, so you can lock in the most nutrients when cooking at home.

Good4Me Nutrition Grader: Got a Food or Restaurant Nutrition Panel Nearby? Get an Unbiased Report Card on What it Means for You

Although it is possible to eat healthy away from home, studies have shown that the foods people select when they eat out generally have more calories, fat, and saturated fat than at-home meals and snacks. This is where our "Good4Me" grading system comes in. With consultation from the two SUNY professors who developed the peer-reviewed "Recommended to Restricted Ratio" (RRR) algorithm, published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, we have created a tool that allows you to quickly type in a few lines from almost any nutritional panel, even from a restaurant menu, and instantly receive a letter grade, a numerical score, and a detailed report card to help you understand (and explain!) the complete nutritional quality of the meal or snack in front of you. Any parent who knows how to read a report card can use this information to compare nearly any processed food - from cereals to kid's meals - and see right through claims on the front of the package.

Try it for yourself at www.myLG.mobi! Live Wisely.

 Chef Solus brings the food label to life with our talking food label game. As the child scrolls over different parts of the food label, Chef Solus talks (along with written text) and begins to teach the child how each part of the food label helps them make healthier choices. Then kids can take a fun virtual shopping experience where they go into a virtual grocery store and select two to three food items. The associated food labels pop up and and the child is asked a few nutrition questions requiring them to compare 2-3 food labels. If they get enough answers right, they will see the food label turn into a roller coaster and ride the food label!

A guessing game bursting with realism and surprise, Smash Your Food™ lets children see and hear foods like a milkshake, or a burger, explode - while learning how much sugar, salt and oil their favorite foods are hiding!

Informed children make healthier food choices. Smash Your Food™ reveals the amounts of sugar, salt, and oil in 10 foods 'commonly abused' by American children that contribute to excessive calorie consumption and obesity.

Smash Your Food™ creates lasting impressions with vivid sound and video effects. First, children pick a food from a scrollable menu, including everything from chips to soda. Before the big, gooey - yet so satisfying - payoff of pulling the “smash lever,” children guess how much sugar, salt and oil are in that food.

The pre-smash guessing component of Smash Your Food™ encourages children to read labels in attempts to answer correctly.  It works because it connects them to reality. Then they can compare their guesses to the results as sugar, salt and oil fall from the “smasher” with a “plink”, “tchh-tchh”, or “glop” into measuring cups.  Lastly, a chart illustrates the difference between what someone of their gender, age and activity level needs in a meal and what they are actually getting.

Smash Your Food™ provides talking points for parents when encouraging their child to eat more healthily, for instance, a parent might ask, "If we put this food in the Smash Your Food™ machine what do you think would come out?" or "Remember how much sugar was in a milkshake? Maybe you should have juice with your burger."

Smash Your Food™ is part of the Food N' Me family and is a compelling, fun way for children to get important health information while having a blast - and best of all, there’s no mess to cleanup!

Super Nutrition is a new and exciting online game that combines fantasy with learning about nutrition and healthy lifestyles.  This game combines elements of  resource management and RPG mechanics in order to make learning about nutrition fun and effective. Comic book visuals are presented in a whimsical and colorful style to draw in  young players to keep them engaged and immersed.

Children play the role of an aspiring superhero training to be accepted into the superhero academy in order to begin cultivating their super powers. Before being admitted, however, they must prove their resolve by completing a series of exercise and nutrition related missions around their neighborhood. After entering school, they will find challenge in thwarting the plans of the various villains working against them.

The Think Your Drink Calculator tallies the sugar, calories and caffeine in the the beverages you consume in table and grahpic fromats.     As drinks are entered, the corresponding number of  sugar cubes pour onto the screen and the calories are tallied on a thermometer-like  meter.  TheThink Your  Drink Journal tracks your beverage intake on a daily basis so you can monitor your progress in reducing sweetened beverages and increasing water.

A customized Hydro Me charachter  responds to the beverages consumed as he or she walks, runs, jumps and skates.  For example, when lots of water and no sugary drinks are entered, Hydro Me pulls off some amazing and comical feats on the basketball court and a skateboard.  When sweet drinks are overdone, the results are less than stellar.