TechCrunch: The Rise of Generation Health
After rising for a decade, life expectancy in America has begun leveling off and has even declined for some groups.
Diabetes, heart disease and obesity along with stress, anxiety, and depression are now major issues. The situation is almost as if the technologies that have improved life in so many ways are now slowly killing us. Meanwhile, maverick quantified
Meanwhile, maverick believers in the quantified-self manage to diagnose themselves successfully.
The future, fortunately, looks more promising. According to the CEO of Johnson & Johnson, the world’s leading healthcare company, ‘we have the opportunity to make the generation born now the healthiest generation in history – “Gen H”.