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It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

quxinot

Not really. The idea of using tech to measure walking distance for health is pretty silly.

Are you fat? Then your activity is not adequate. Very easy to tell without tech.

Measuring some of the important metrics is very useful (say, blood glucose), and the tech is getting better but clearly has great strides left. Cardiac rhythms should be caught at routine physical assessments, and potentially tracked after incidents; again the tech isn't great yet (holter monitors are a hassle, pacemakers difficult to install).

Most people overthink being healthy and are looking for excuses or scapegoats, frankly.

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