Ask Your Cell Phone for Advice on How to Lose Weight

How many calories are in that cheese cake? What about in 10 pieces of sushi? Can't remember?

Use your cell phone to take a picture and send it to an office designated by Osaka Prefecture.

Heart patients, diabetics and the obese can use the service.

With the Japanese, particularly men in their 20s and 30s, packing on the weight, there is concern that the nutrition they learned when they were young has been lost.

Enter Japan's ubiquitous cell phone.

Centers can receive images of one day's meals to several week's worth. Results come back in…three days.

And by then…who's going to want to eat that old piece of cheesecake anyway?

I guess if a Wii controller and game console can help a person lose weight, then a cell phone in Japan can do the same.

How do you shed pounds when you need to?