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Beware DNA Lifestyle Coaches

 ▶ There is a trend toward acceptance of coaches for lifestyle choices formulated on DNA - beware! | sequencing stories news.| ◀ | People are wrongly accepting advice from so called experts after taking a DNA test.  Lifestyle coaches have become popular. However, not enough is known about DNA sequencing. It is just fortune telling at the moment.    ||| diet lifestyle do DNA to beware is coaches || Guidance is about changing one's diet. It is based on snippets of DNA, not the whole genome; so it not really gene sequencing analysis. For evaluation of suitable diet, billions of subjects would have to be tested.  Are the needs of individuals different?  This question is not answered yet.     ||| lifestyle as DNA it beware go coaches | diet on sequencing on lifestyle | ||     Most would lose weight and become fitter if they adopted the Mediterranean regime and exercised, which is what they are usually told to do.  Taking more vitamins...

Wearable Technology Will Go the Way Of 3D and 4K Televisions

Will people buy wearable technology? Looking back on computers, purchases were out of curiosity and it eventually became a "must have" when games began to be cracked. Some even enjoyed the long tedious entering of code to produce a "useful" program that was painfully slow when you ran it. It took three whole days to do a spell check on a five page paper. Then there was the verbal war everywhere with the majority advising to buy a Mac when universities only used Microsoft PCs. If you wanted to further your education a Mac was useless. I believe this state of affairs is split now but most colleges still favor Microsoft. The iPad is still not a device one uses to improve knowledge, though some still soldier on in the fruity Apple world. There isn't much doubt that an Apple product is a prestige item. All Apple devices are grossly overpriced and owners know the ordinary Joe will never afford one. In regard to wearables they are just curiosities...