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Health as a game

I say turn your health into a social game like Foursquare. Check in when you take your meds, go to the gym, walk to work, and eat like Michael Pollan. Tie this to your insurance premiums. In fact, I say turn life into one big game with various levels. Make the mundane fun. We’ve got the beginnings of the technology to do it. And I’m glad there are people like Dennis and Naveen who are there to show us how it’s done.

Dr. Jay Parkinson commenting on Health Populi’s “People without a connection to a primary care doctor don’t proactively manage health”

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    Totally agree. Just last week, getting the “Gym Rat” badge on FourSquare was part of the reason I exercised instead of staying home.

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    The Line Diet (recently repopularized by Kottke http://kottke.org/09/08/the-line-diet) is the closest I've seen. And it works *really* well, especially for nerds. Stats, graphs, points. It's like fantasy sports for your health! Also online at http://thelinediet.com

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    TechStars startup DailyBurn is in a good position to tackle this. http://dailyburn.com/

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  • Davian

    True! But the reall challange is keeping up with such a lifestyle.

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    Keeping up such a lifestyle shouldn't be so difficult, if only sticking to your plans in real life would be as easy as playing a click game.
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