C o l o r My Data™

About Color My Data

Color My Data is developing and patenting software to plan nutrient-dense, calorie-poor meals that may be an effective dietary remedy for metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome links obesity to diabetes and heart disease. In the United States an estimated 90 million people are overweight or obese and some 40 million people are pre-diabetic or diabetic.

Meal-Planner

What is unique about the meal-planner is how it uses color to teach food selection and portion control. It will also allow consumers to publish their recipes and meal-plans on the Color My Data website and receive royalty payments from paying subscribers. The meal-planner is intended for health-conscious consumers who want to create their own healthy recipes and meal plans, share them with others and even get paid for sharing.

Subscription Website

The Color My Data public website will rank restaurant meals so people can make informed, healthy choices when they eat out. It will also provide a searchable database of the meal-plans and recipes that have been published using the meal-planner. Only subscribers will be permitted to access the details of each recipe or meal-plan. The subscription website is intended for a wider range of consumers who don't have the time or skills to create their own solutions.

Healthcare Version

A healthcare version of the meal-planner will have a web-based, HIPPA-compliant data acquisition system for tracking the dietary patterns and medical outcomes of each individual and for summarizing the results for groups of individuals. This product is intended for healthcare providers, support group counselors and lifestyle coaches so they can provide more personalized guidance to their clients. Secondarily, it is also intended for use in clinical trials.

Clinical Trials

Color My Data intends to apply for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to NIH/NIDDK to measure the efficacy of its low-cost, continuing care model for promoting long-term weight maintenance and control of diabetes. NIH/NIDDK sponsored clinical trials are also contemplated for testing the hypotheses upon which the remedy is based.

Let's Do the Colors

Color My Data also intends to launch an educational cooking show for PBS called "Lets Do the Colors". The show will feature the culinary art of invited guests and ask the guests to demonstrate the influences nutrition played in food selection and portion control. Invited guests will be drawn from content-providers with the highest volume of subscriber downloads.

About the Founder

The founder is a senior software engineer specializing in databases and data acquisition systems for aerospace applications. It was this experience that led him to use computer-aided nutrition compliance to treat his own type-II diabetes and heart disease. On Apr 28 2005, when his diabetes and weight were uncontrolled and unresponsive to exercise and medication, he walked into the office of a nutritionist and walked out with one goal for each of the nutrition facts on a food label and the URL for software to manage those goals.

Unlike most people, he quickly understood the mathematics of nutrition compliance and developed additional software to mathematically balance both calories and nutrition. He was successful beyond his wildest dreams. In one week he had normal blood sugar. Over 7 months he lost 40 lbs. Risk factors for heart disease such as elevated blood pressure, cholesterol and triglycerides became well controlled. The software he developed for his own use was invaluable in learning food selection and portion control. For him it was a magic bullet to good health. Now he wants to share his magic bullet to benefit others.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: I have diabetes, what can I do now ?
A: Follow the Core Recommendations

Q: What is the meaning of your logo ?
A: It ranks foods by carbohydrate figure of merit

Q: Which carbs have the best figure of merit ?
A:

Q: Are Whole Grains a Good Source of Fiber ?
A: The data say - not really

Q: Can "low-fat" foods cause weight gain and diabetes ?
A: Yes

Q: The Ornish diet is low-fat. Why does it work ?
A: It is also a high-fiber diet.