Health Trackers - How Technology Is Helping Us Monitor and Improve Our Health

A new industry is growing around the tracking of health and fitness through various gadgets, apps, and programs. These new ways of monitoring our every move, however, may not be well understood even by those who use them, and yet they may be revolutionizing the health and wellness industries. This book makes sense of the various tracking devices and illustrates how they work for us and our overall health.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: Buster Benson's self-tracking odyssey
2: The pedometer on steroids: tracking activity with Fitbit
3: Diet wars: tracking food with MyFitnessPal
4: The tao of weight tracking
5: How useful is genetics? Me & my 23andMe results
6: Inception: tracking the brain
7: Bacteria nation: tracking the microbiome with uBiome
8: The health dashboard: TicTrac
9: The modern doctor: Dr. Robin Berzin
10: Tracking + medicine: MD Revolution
Epilogue

Über den Autor / die Autorin

By Richard MacManus

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard Macmanus, MacManus Richard
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780810895829
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-9582-9
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin; Ratgeber > Gesundheit > Ernährung; MEDICAL / Public Health, Medizinische Ausstattung und Technik, MEDICAL / Instruments & Supplies, Personal & public health, Medical equipment & techniques, Personal and public health / health education, Medical equipment and techniques