Building India Impact Chapter · SSCBS
Ordinary habits.
Extraordinary health.
A four-minute check, five goals picked for where you actually are, and a log that takes half a minute. No calorie diaries, no lectures, no advice you have already heard.
Open to students with an @sscbs.du.ac.in address.
Today
Your five
- Water6 / 8 glasses
- Steps9,600 / 9,000
- Sleep6.5 / 7.5 hours
- Sitting9 / under 8 hrs
- Iron foods2 / 2 servings
Standing
12 / 240
Ranked on what you did, not how long you have been here.
Our aims, year one
- 200+
- students registered in year one
- 60%
- logging in any given week
- 20%
- lift in habit score, baseline to endline
Targets the chapter set itself, not results. Live figures replace them once the cohort is running.
Why preventive health
The habits that matter most are the ones nobody tracks.
Irregular timetables, mess food, late nights before submissions, long sitting hours. Individually they look like nothing. Together they set your concentration, your energy and your long-term risk — and almost nobody notices until something goes wrong.
Generic advice does not land
Calorie apps assume you control your schedule and your kitchen. A hosteller eating from one mess has neither, and being told to meal-prep is not help.
Effort is the real barrier
Logging every meal collapses by week two. Five things you can count in thirty seconds survive an exam week — which is the only week that tests anything.
Nobody changes alone
Habits hold when the people around you are doing the same thing. One campus, one leaderboard, and a number that says how many you stand among.
How it works
Seven steps, start to standing
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A check that takes four minutes
Short sections on sleep, food, water, movement, screens and sitting, plus five nutrients commonly low in a student diet. Every question is optional, and anything you skip is left out of your score rather than counted as zero. It saves as you go.
02
Five goals, chosen for where you actually are
The check flags your weakest areas. Five goals are drawn from a library of three hundred to match them, starting at the easiest level where you are furthest behind — someone furthest from a target needs the smallest possible first step. Where you reported eating few iron, calcium, B12, vitamin D or zinc foods, a goal that adds several at once takes one of the five.
- In the library
- 300
- Assigned to you
- 5
- You can add
- up to 5
03
Goals you write yourself, judged on your own terms
Add up to five of your own — anything you can count at the end of a day. You set the target, the unit, the time horizon, and the bar you are holding yourself to. Commit to eighty per cent and delivering eighty-five costs you nothing; only falling below your own bar reduces your score.
04
One page, once a day
Enter what you actually did against each target — six glasses, nine thousand steps, seven hours sitting — and submit. A number is something you can report; how well hydration went out of ten is a guess about a guess. Change any entry before midnight.
05
A score built from what you did, not how long you have been here
Rank comes from a thousand-point composite, not a running total. Ranking on cumulative points would mean whoever signed up first stays on top; this is built from rates, so someone who joined last week and logs faithfully can stand above someone who joined in June and logs twice a month.
- Daily performance
- 400
- Consistency
- 350
- Coverage
- 250
06
One leaderboard, everybody on it
Every student who finishes setting up is ranked, and everyone can see where they stand and how many they stand among. Appearing by name is a separate choice: opt out and you show as Anonymous while still being counted and still seeing your own position.
07
Your health data stays yours
Nothing from the check — not BMI, weight, stress or your wellness score — enters the leaderboard, the points or the ranking. Those are ranked on behaviour alone. Organisers see campus-level totals and never an individual's answers. The nutrient questions are about your plate: the app cannot and does not tell you that you are deficient in anything. That needs a blood test and a doctor.
Evidence
Where the guidance comes from.
Targets come from published guidance, used as behaviour targets rather than as advice. Nothing medical reaches a student until a named reviewer has checked it against the cited document — the database will not let us mark it approved without one.
Two minutes now. A different year.
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