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Urine Test Assesses Dietary Patterns Using Metabolic Phenotyping

posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 17 2017, @01:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the honest,-I'm-on-a-diet dept.

takyon writes:

Good news, employers. Scientists have come up with a urine test that can determine how healthy a person's eating habits are:

A urine test that can reveal how healthy your meals are has been developed by UK scientists. They think it could be used to improve nutritional advice or in weight loss because people are notoriously bad at recording their own eating habits.

The test, detailed in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology [open, DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(16)30419-3] [DX], detects chemicals made as food is processed by the body. The research team believe it could be widely available within two years. The urine samples are analysed to determine the structure of the chemicals floating around in it using a technique called a proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This gives clues to both recent meals and long term dietary habits.

Combine this with mandatory illicit drug testing and the proper healthy living incentives/disincentives structure, and you can optimize the performance of your employees!

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @02:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @02:46AM (#454687)

    In America such screening could lower the costs of your healthcare as some employers have an agreement with their health insurers. They show up to the place offering screening and the mere act of consenting to it, regardless of how healthy you are, will give you a discount.

    Yuh, huh. Participation is completely voluntary...until it isn't, of course. And you can be sure that the medical records they have on you will eventually be used against you. First, by the insurer; then, if they can get away with it, by the employer. What's that? Employers could never get away with such egregious conduct toward their employees? Are you sure about that? [shrm.org]

    Personally I think it's superfluous for all except those who are afraid of needles. Anything a clinician needs to know about you they can see in your bloodstream. Cholesterol, hemoglobin, drugs, even herpes.

    No, you idiot!!! The needles are the least of your worries! The thing you really need to worry about are employers who have the mindset that they own you 24/7 if you work for them. That is what you really need to worry about.

    Sheesh! All these people who just can't see the forest for the trees!

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 17 2017, @03:21AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 17 2017, @03:21AM (#454694) Journal

    The guy's probably either on SSI disability or sponging off his mom in her basement somewhere. I have to wonder if he actually has a job.

    --
    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:20AM (#454725)

      Hey, baby, I got no job. Can I have one of your jobs, since you have two?

      Capitalism at it's finest, distributing labor so efficiently.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:52AM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:52AM (#454735) Journal

        No you may not. I need the second one to keep a friend of mine who is very ill alive.

        --
        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @10:13AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @10:13AM (#454833)

          Shit just got real.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:56PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:56PM (#454960)

            It tends to do that when real life intervenes.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @11:43AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @11:43AM (#454851)

      The guy's probably either on SSI disability or sponging off his mom in her basement somewhere.

      Those are not necessarily mutually exclusive.