Kennedy Jr. pushes health trackers as Chicago experts question privacy, cost

"We think that wearables are a key to the MAHA agenda, Making America Healthy Again, and we are gonna, my vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years," Kennedy Jr. said.

In a Fox 32 special report, Sylvia Perez finds out if wearing a wearable is for everyone.

What we know:

Soroush Shah is a graduate student at Northwestern University. He already wears a wearable.

"I use my smartwatch on a daily basis," Shah said. "The health and physical activity tracking features on the watch are helping a lot with tracking the calories I burn out during the day and the week and helps me track the performance."

He says he started wearing one about five years ago and not because he had any serious health concerns, but because he wanted to make sure he was leading an active lifestyle.

"Sometimes it feels uncomfortable if you're wearing it 24-7, so sometimes I have to take it off. But other than that, it's not a big issue because the four factors is the watch. And I got used to it," Shah said.

Soroush is a PhD candidate at Northwestern. He works in what's called the university's Habits Lab - where he is part of a team of researching and designing new wearable health tech devices.