Health

Is it ethical to use apps to track and control your daily health habits?

For

It helps people stay disciplined and informed.

Against

It creates anxiety and obsession with numbers.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • For me seeting the calendar fill up is motivation enough.
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • tracking keeps me grounded sometimes it can be another reason on why I have health concerns but tracking helps me feel
    RedditOriginal language: English

Against

  • Many apps bet a lot on streaks (which I sometimes find anxiety-inducing)
    RedditOriginal language: English
  • the obsessive need to record every minor details about our body is a psychology aspect that comes with health anxiety.
    RedditOriginal language: English
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