The Top Five Digital Health Innovations For Food Tracking and Eating

Technological innovations aim to help us track what’s in our food, what we should eat based on our genetic background or support the process of bringing those delicious bites from the bowl into our mouths. Here, I enlisted the top trends concerning eating and food tracking. Check it out! 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. Researchers estimate that up to 15 million Americans have food allergies, including 5.9 million children under age 18. That’s 1 in 13 children or roughly two in every classroom. According to some estimations, 1-5 percent of the whole population of the EU has a type of food allergy. Although it is not easy to measure it, some analysts say that there could be as much as 70 million people worldwide affected by various eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia or binge eating disorder. There are also concerning numbers when we look at the WHO statistics concerning obesity. According to the UN organization, in 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight; of theses over 600 million were obese. Moreover, worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. All these issues need to be addressed. Although digital devices, food trackers, calorie counters, etc. cannot offer alone long-term, compreh...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Food Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers digital health digital innovation eating food scanner food sensors food trackers food tracking gc3 Medicine parkinson technology wearable wearables Source Type: blogs