Health Apps Genetic Diets and Superfoods

This book critically examines contemporary health and wellness culture through the lens of personalization genetification and functional foods. These developments have had a significant impact on the intersecting categories of gender race and class<i></i>in light of the increasing adoption of digital health and surveillance technologies like MyFitnessPal Lifesum HealthyifyMe and Fooducate. These three vectors of identity when analysed in relation to food diet health and technology reveal significant new ways in which inequality hierarchy and injustice become manifest.<br/> <br/> In the book Tina Sikka argues that the corporate-led trends associated with health apps genetic testing superfoods and functional foods have produced a kind of dietary-genomic-functional food industrial complex. She makes the positive case for a prosocial food secure and biodiverse health and food culture that is rooted in community action supported by strong public provisioning of health care and grounded in principles of food justice and sovereignty.