Fitness Trackers, Poverty Changes the Brain, Fad Diets

Fitbit Data and Your Health Insurance (15:17) Dr. Andy Boyd, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Health and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Our Producer Palakiko just got a new Fitbit charge smartwatch.  He loves it.  It tracks his resting heart rate, how many calories he burns each day, and even grades his quality of sleep.   But should his Fitbit data be used to deny him healthcare? Andy Boyd explains how fitness trackers come with many issues involving personal data How Poverty Changes the Brain (1:03:12) Elisabeth Babcock, Ph.D. is the President and CEO of Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath), a national charitable organization dedicated to creating new pathways to economic independence for low-income women and their families. Beth’s role as CEO is to lead EMPath in its strategy to be a research and innovations powerhouse consistently delivering new approaches that expedite pathways out of poverty. A new study by EMPath ex...