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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: 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.

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  • (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.

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      • (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.