Bill Davenhall at TEDMED 2009

Can your health depend on where you live?

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[sebastiansthlm]

I think he's making it a little bit to simple. The increase in myocardial infarctions can have many different causes, except for exposure to chemicals. Maybe those communities are built in a way that you take your car wherever you want to go (=less exercise), maybe the food culture is more greasy, maybe people have less interest in doings sports, maybe the working conditions on local businesses are very stressful etc etc. .

He could have penetrated the data more..

[vaspers]

Posted this at my client's Naturally Yours organic food blog. Thanks for the intro to Geomedicine. What are the tribal traditions on this aspect of health?

[Copthill]

Google Latitude can track your place history (google.com/latitude/apps), but it's in beta, and for now only allows you to export a KML file of the last 500 locations it tracked you at, and it tracks you probably 50 - 100 times per day. I can basically see anywhere I used my Android phone over the past few days.

[fiveseven2006]

I believe the application was something custom-written for the purposes of this very research, but I'm sure there is or will be a comparable commercial offering that can spatially log your whereabouts at a given time interval.

[iamanalog]

Very interesting, it really is amazing how much data isn't being used to its potential.

[katanlugi]

what's this app?

[Gerald45]

This guy is a genius.

[zwb209]

I want that app.