Case Study
IoT Platform on Heroku "Recycles Calories" to Fight Severe Malnutrition and Childhood Obesity
IoT Platform on Heroku "Recycles Calories" to Fight Severe Malnutrition and Childhood Obesity Active for Good engages kids and adults in the U.S. to burn calories and convert them into funds for global food aid programs Calories in, calories out—herein lies the most basic mathematics of life. Yet across the world, this simple equation varies to extremes. Sadly, humanity continues to suffer from a severe imbalance in available calories that threatens lives of millions. 165 million children under age five suffer from malnutrition, yet in the developed world, childhood obesity has nearly doubled since 1980. If only we could "recycle" calories from one population to the other. The founders of Active for Good took this concept to heart and created a new equation that directly connects these two