Recent quotes:
Apple in Talks With Insurance Companies Over HealthKit Partnership
Under the Affordable Care Act, the new national health-care law, companies can spend as much as 30 percent of annual insurance premiums on rewards for healthy behavior. Technology companies are taking note. Apple Inc., which has new health-tracking software called HealthKit that will be released this year and is said to be developing its own wearable device, has talked with UnitedHealth, the biggest U.S. insurer, and Humana, about its health initiatives, executives at the insurance providers said.
As it often happens with popular science, the media can blow a study out of proportion when the findings look newsworthy. It seems all the excitement over eating six times a day (rather than three) for an increased metabolism falls under that category.