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fooya (styled as fooya!) is a Medicinal Mobile App available on Android and iOS devices.
It is the first Entertainment and Gaming App that has been scientifically shown to improve the dietary choices of children and young adults, while positively influencing their health. It is a breakthrough in behavioral medicine based on Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavior Therapy and is increasingly being considered a pioneer for innovations and in creating a tool that helps in preventing and managing lifestyle related diseases.
Following peer review, evidence of statistically significant health outcomes measured during two randomized controlled clinical trials conducted by researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine Children's Nutrition Research Center and of one longitudinal trial, by researchers from Kaiser Permanente and the Bernard A. Harris Foundation, have been presented at leading academic medical conferences. Results of the underlying innovations and mechanisms in fooya! have been presented at the 2015 MedicineX Conference at the Stanford School of Medicine, 2015 Biennial Childhood Obesity Conference, 2015 Child Health Bay Area Conference at UCSF School of Medicine and the 2014 ObesityWeek Conference
It is the world's first game built on the principles of learnification, which was invented and developed by Silicon Valley based mHealth startup company - FriendsLearn. The product team is led by Bhargav Sri Prakash and was conceptualized when he was a fellow of the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City