Bibliograph

Health trackers, how technology is helping us monitor and improve our health, Richard MacManus

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Health trackers, how technology is helping us monitor and improve our health, Richard MacManus

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Health trackers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

908071238

Responsibility statement

Richard MacManus

Sub title

how technology is helping us monitor and improve our health

Summary

"Thanks to new technologies, such as smartphone apps and personal genomics, self-tracking is revolutionizing the health and wellness industries. Through interviews with tech developers, early adopters, and medical practitioners, Richard MacManus explores what is being tracked, what tools and techniques are being used, the best practices of early adopters, and how self-tracking is changing healthcare"--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Buster Benson's self-tracking odyssey -- The pedometer on steroids : tracking activity with Fitbit -- Diet wars : tracking food with MyFitnessPal -- The tao of weight tracking -- How useful is genetics? : me and my 23andMe results -- Inception : trackiing the brain -- Bacteria nation : tracking the microbiome with uBiome -- The health dashboard : TicTrac -- The modern doctor : Dr. Robin Berzin -- Tracking + medicine : MD revolution -- Epilogue

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