The Top Five Digital Health Innovations For Food Tracking and Eating

Your body might be your temple, but in principle, we don’t take good enough care of it – not when it comes to the food we consume. In the Western world, we practically have no idea what we eat and how that affects us. Technological innovations can help us track what’s in our food and what we should eat based on our genetic background. In this article, we enlisted the top trends concerning eating and food tracking. Let’s talk about food. Almost 700 million people have some health problem with food or eating For some, eating is the most natural process on Earth. You are hungry, you get some nice food and some company, you sit down and have the meal making you happy and full. These people do not know how lucky they are. The last time we checked, researchers estimated that up to 15 million Americans have food allergies – that was in 2017. As of today this number almost doubled: currently it is estimated that 32 million Americans have food allergies of some sort, including 5.6 million children under age 18. That’s 1 in 13 children or roughly two in every American classroom. Although it is not easy to measure it, some analysts say that there could be as many as 70 million people worldwide affected by various eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia or binge eating disorder. This number has definitely grown since the pandemic. There are also concerning numbers when we look at the WHO statistics concerning obesity. According to t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Food Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers digital health eating Innovation Medicine parkinson scanner technology wearable wearables gc3 food sensors food scanner food tracking food trackers digital innovation Source Type: blogs