Not to sound snarky, but uploading my fitbit data IMO just solved the mystery of obesity (at least for me).
I burn ~3200 calories a day and I walk >10 miles a day. This is the 100th percentile of your data and that floors me.
So I have to say that step 1 is getting people to get off their asses and move. It'd be nice if they cut down on red meat and sugar intake while they were at it, but small steps, no?
Well, so this project of mine is in beta, which makes you the 22nd Fitbit user. Not the best sample size :) Im on the higher end too. Not sure how we stand up against the 20 million other fitbit users out there.
Cool, one thing though, you're not getting my genome. That's like giving you my fingerprints and we've just barely met. My fitbit data has probably already outed me to you given what I said previously. I'm OK with that because there's nothing but good news there. My genome? Well, it's a mixed bag like anyone else's hence the 20K+ steps per day as an ongoing service patch.
I do wish there were a way to anonymously calculate the very comparative statistics you're generating, but alas I don't see one. Am I missing something?
Really what we need is some kind of homeomorphic encryption process that would enable large scale Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) to be performed without actually divulging the underlying raw data. Until that happens though, scientists like myself have to contend with the privacy concerns of many.
I burn ~3200 calories a day and I walk >10 miles a day. This is the 100th percentile of your data and that floors me.
So I have to say that step 1 is getting people to get off their asses and move. It'd be nice if they cut down on red meat and sugar intake while they were at it, but small steps, no?