Eat slowly with the 10SFork smart health connected fork!

It’s the Meal Tool 2.0. Nicknamed 10SFork, this new smart health connected fork created by the French company Slow Control offers you to regulate the speed of your meals in order to limit the risks of obesity and other diseases. smart health connected to a dedicated application, it also allows you to follow the progress of your meals via data and graphs shared with your doctor on the Slow Control platform. You had to think about it.

Have you ever wondered what your cutlery would gain from connecting to your smartphone? No need to think about it, Slow Control brings you an answer with its new smart health connected fork: the 10SFork. "New" because the French company had already offered us Hapifork at CES in Las Vegas in January 2013, where it had already won the innovation prize.

Founded in 2008 by Jacques Lépine, Slow Control specializes in creating tools smart health connected to the Quantified Self service, this movement consisting in measuring and analyzing personal data using, in particular, smart health connected objects. The 10SFork is part of this line since it remains faithful to the mission of the company: to encourage users to eat more slowly to improve their health.

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10 seconds for a smart health connected fork

If it has that name, it’s for a simple reason. To help you eat more slowly, 10SFork advises you to wait 10 seconds between each bite. To do this, you do not need any screen or special vigilance on your part, because the fork takes care of it. If you feel like lining up two bites of food below this recommended time, the 10SFork will gently remind you to order by emitting a slight vibration in the handle. Nothing very invasive, allowing you to enjoy your meal while discreetly monitoring how you taste it.

The operation of this smart health connected cover is rather simple. "The 10SFork contains an electronic key" says Slow Control.“When you hold the fork in your hand and bring it to your mouth, an electronic loop closes, creating an event. The smart health connected fork measures the number and frequency of these events during a meal. If you go too fast between two bites, the fork will let you know by a slight vibration in the handle. "

Paired with its virtual platform

Since this fork is primarily smart health connected, it will necessarily be a question of connection via USB or Bluetooth to its dedicated Slow Control platform (available on the company website) or its free mobile app (iOS and Android). Because 10SFork not only vibrates in your hand from time to time, it is also capable ofAnalyze and record various information relating to your chrono-nutrition. The time and duration of the meal, the average of your fork strokes per minute or the interval between each bite will be some of the information to which you will have access via this virtual interface. In addition, it offers you set goals for each meal, track your progress, and even take photos or notes about your personal feelings (note that you can create multiple accounts for the whole family). A real dashboard that you can then share with your network or with health professionals, with just one click. Convenient.

Why eat slower?

All that is fine, but there is one question: why absolutely eat more slowly? What are the concrete effects of waiting ten seconds between two bites? According to Slow Control, here the benefits that each of us would gain from eating slower :

• Keep fit : because eating quickly puts too much strain on the liver and the pancreas, and promotes cardio-metabolic risks such as hypertension.

• Gain energy : monitoring the speed at which you eat helps facilitate digestion. As a result, less post-meal drowsiness, less reflux and stress, etc.

• Weight loss : when it begins to feed, the human body keeps feeling full for twenty minutes. The less you eat during this time, the faster you are full.

• Take care of your line : According to scientists, the rush of meals is a more harmful effect on our line than the ingestion of fiber. A study that can be found in the research of Slow Control.

• Prevent type 2 diabetes : the risk of developing type 2 diabetes is increased by 250% if you eat too fast. Regulating its speed thus relieves the pancreas and smooths out the peak insulin that you will secrete during the meal.

• Grow well : a question of habits, above all, which should be adopted from an early age. But that's not all, because the proper development of the jaw will be affected by the quality of chewing.

• The pleasure of eating : quite simply ! By taking your time to eat, you relearn how to savor food. Slow Control goes as far as ensuring that five slow meals a week (with the 10SFork) are enough to offer a positive impact on health.

Practical questions

The smart health connected fork will not be the only object you will receive if you wish to acquire the 10SFork. To start, you can choose between five colors : black, silver, blue, pink and apple green. It will come with a USB cable, a carrying case and its user manual. You will also be entitled to a matching knife, which raises another question: “and the spoon?” Do not panic, because Slow Control is said to be developing a smart health connected spoon in order to adapt to all meals.

As for the 10SFork, it is guaranteed for one year and available at the price of 99 €. Its application (both web and mobile) can be downloaded for free from the Slow Control website.

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