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So the vaccine is the government implanting a tracker into me, but watches that track my vitals and send them God knows where is hunky dory?

These anti government types always have such a hard time when they become the government.

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Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Every accusation is a confession and all that

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FriendBesto@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Having watched his actual statement, is not that they want your data. That’s a red herring in the article.

But that the average American is so out of touch with how food --presumably bad, shitty food and nutrition-- interacts with their body, that them being able to know of how, for examole, that 2nd Coke, and bag of chips is screwing up your insulin levels, and how it get affected in real time could be a positive drive for change. The fact is that the USA has an obesity pandemic and most people’s knowledge of nutritional science can be laughable at best. 60+% of Americans are overweight. And 33% are literally obese, including kids.

You do not have to buy a wearable. They are not making or forcing to you wear a wearable and they are not going to ask you to show papers before you want to enter a restaurant proving that you use or own a wearable. He said that he would prefer it because how do you empower people who know next to nothing? Is it the only way? Nope. Of course not, but the system has been so captured by interest groups that many changes may not be politically feasible. They could be done in theory but not in practice right now. Europe had s superior take on nutrition than the USA, for example.

Personally, I would never wear a wearable but I also spent a lot of time studying Nutritional Science and attempt to leave a healthy lifestyle. It is an extra load of work that cuts into other things and not many may want to do but it is one that it is worth doing for yourself and the family.

Additionally, I have friends who are Doctors and the concept of wearables is not always well received. Privacy concerns aside, the worry is that it can turn a lot of people into hypochondriacs if they do not fully understand some basics of human anatomy and take raw data out of context. Not to mention a waste of resources if people want to run tests for absolutely everything they think might be wrong with it. It can also be a source for unnecessary stress in some people.

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- ksigley@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Bro wrote a novel just to say they’re dumb as rocks. Lmao.
  
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- sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Sometimes I want to buy juice that doesn’t have a shitload of sugar in it
  
  You haven’t researched as well as you think you have. Even freshly squeezed juice is unhealthy. You need the pulp too in order to slow the sugar metabolism, in which case you may as well just eat fruit.
  
  Check Robert Lustig re sugars.
  
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- andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  But that the average American is so out of touch with how food --presumably bad, shitty food and nutrition
  
  A substantial part is that our food is filled with shit.
  
  They add sugar to everything. Food marketing is insane, and so much of it should be illegal.
  
  Sometimes I want to buy juice that doesn’t have a shitload of sugar in it. Getting a load of bread will involve eating extra sugar. The country subsidizes corn, so high fructose corn syrup is added to everything.
  
  Unregulated hell capitalism means that food gets to be pumped full of shit. Broke and stressed people rely on convenience foods - which don’t need to be unhealthy but are purposefully made so with addictive ingredients.
  
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  - Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Dont forget the rest of the world won’t accept our meat standards either.
    
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- tartarin@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  A wearable will be totally useless if the owner has no clue what he should do or don’t. Leaving people with a guilty mood will not help anyone. You cannot improvise yourself a nutritionist and most people cannot. The facts are you must first know how to cook because you will not find a healthy diet in the frozen meal aisle. As you cannot improvise yourself a kinesiologist. That guy, Robert Fucking Kennedy doesn’t know shit about how to turn unhealthy people into healthy people. He’s just a fucking dork with no real life experience.
  
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