Just saw the last part of a segment on morning TV about a band that you wear on your wrist. You lick it, and about an hour later it has analysed your DNA. The idea is, you go into a supermarket, scan the barcode of products, and the band will flash either red or green to tell you whether it’s a healthy choice based on your DNA.

From what I can see, the band picks up predisposition for heart disease, type 2 diabetes etc, and makes choices for you based on that data. I don’t know whether the band is good for people with allergies. Are allergies encoded in DNA?

It’s supposed to be released in Australia later this year. At the moment you need to physically scan the barcode*, so it’s useless for online shopping.

*The UK version has things like Starbucks coffees uploaded too, because you can’t scan a barcode for them. Although if you can’t tell that a Starbucks drink isn’t good for you, well then there’s not much hope for you…. :)

https://www.digitaltrends.com/wearables/dnanudge-dna-shopping-ces2020/

Divine Angel said:

Just saw the last part of a segment on morning TV about a band that you wear on your wrist. You lick it, and about an hour later it has analysed your DNA. The idea is, you go into a supermarket, scan the barcode of products, and the band will flash either red or green to tell you whether it’s a healthy choice based on your DNA.

From what I can see, the band picks up predisposition for heart disease, type 2 diabetes etc, and makes choices for you based on that data. I don’t know whether the band is good for people with allergies. Are allergies encoded in DNA?

It’s supposed to be released in Australia later this year. At the moment you need to physically scan the barcode*, so it’s useless for online shopping.

*The UK version has things like Starbucks coffees uploaded too, because you can’t scan a barcode for them. Although if you can’t tell that a Starbucks drink isn’t good for you, well then there’s not much hope for you…. :)

https://www.digitaltrends.com/wearables/dnanudge-dna-shopping-ces2020/

Ooh! Power Balance is back!!

It’s magic!

https://www.dnanudge.com/en/how-it-works

Who wants to bet it simply says something like sugar – bad; trans fats – bad; etc.

buffy said:

It’s magic!

https://www.dnanudge.com/en/how-it-works

Who wants to bet it simply says something like sugar – bad; trans fats – bad; etc.

My scam alert has been screaming at me.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/11/consumer-dna-testing-may-be-the-biggest-health-scam-of-the-decade/

sibeen said:

buffy said:

It’s magic!

https://www.dnanudge.com/en/how-it-works

Who wants to bet it simply says something like sugar – bad; trans fats – bad; etc.

My scam alert has been screaming at me.

Mine is offscale…

In answer to your question: some allergies are correlared with certain alleles but mainly, no, you can’t reliably tell what allergies someone has by their DNA.

Why is it legal for advertisers to lie?

dv said:

In answer to your question: some allergies are correlared with certain alleles but mainly, no, you can’t reliably tell what allergies someone has by their DNA.

Why is it legal for advertisers to lie?

How good are profits?

buffy said:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/11/consumer-dna-testing-may-be-the-biggest-health-scam-of-the-decade/

I thought diets-by-blood-type would be the biggest scam :p

I can’t think of the name of the website that looks into these things. It’s not Scamwatch, that’s the ACCC. It’s been around forever. And the name has slipped my mind and it doesn’t seem to be in my bookmarks.

Snopes.

buffy said:

Snopes.

Hmm, nothing immediately obvious there.

> Just saw the last part of a segment on morning TV about a band that you wear on your wrist. You lick it, and about an hour later it has analysed your DNA. The idea is, you go into a supermarket, scan the barcode of products, and the band will flash either red or green to tell you whether it’s a healthy choice based on your DNA.

I’d love to see the results if a dog licked it.