Bite Balance started as a simple, stubborn question: why can't you see what a meal does to your blood sugar before you eat it — without a $1,000 sensor?
Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes run through a lot of families — including ours. The advice everyone hears is the same: eat better, move more. But nobody ever shows you which of your meals is the problem. The smoothie you thought was healthy might spike you harder than a cookie, and you'd have no way to know.
Continuous glucose monitors can show you — but they're expensive, they're a commitment, and most of the people who'd benefit most will never wear one. So we asked whether a prediction could get you most of the way there from something everyone already has: a photo of the plate.
The answer turned out to be yes. We trained and tested a model against real continuous-glucose data across roughly 3,000 meals, and the predictions held up well enough to change what people chose to eat. That work earned a Gold award at the Minnesota State Science & Engineering Fair — and, more importantly, it earned a pilot with 68 real people.
The pilot taught us the thing that turned a model into a program: prediction alone isn't enough. People change when they see the number, get one small thing to do about it, and have a group doing it with them. That's the reset camp — and it's the heart of Bite Balance today.
People don't need another lecture about eating better. They need to see what their own food does — specifically, before they eat it.
The people who'd benefit most can rarely afford a sensor or a subscription. So the camp is free, funded by whoever benefits when they get healthier.
We call predictions predictions. We're a wellness and education tool, not a medical device, and we won't pretend otherwise to sound more impressive.
Employers, health plans, congregations, and clinics all benefit when their people manage blood sugar with food instead of ending up in a hospital. So they fund the camps, we run them, and the person joins for free. The optional report and coach keep the lights on — but nobody has to buy them to get well.
Two places where blood-sugar disease is common, families are close, and community groups are strong enough to carry a camp. We run in English, Hindi, and Gujarati today, with more languages as camps grow.
On Android and the web, so the phone in someone's pocket is enough to start.
Join a free camp, or help us fund one for a community that needs it.
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