Fitbit
- HealthYahoo Life UK
Experts warn health wearables could fuel rise in tech-driven hypochondria
“The ‘worried well’ will be sent into hyperdrive."
- HealthYahoo Life UK
Your 10,000 steps a day goal appears to be built on bad science
or is the figure based on bad science?
- NewsAlice Sholl
Fitness trackers might not help you lose weight, study finds
If you’re a die-hard fitness tracker fan, we’re afraid we have some bad news: They might not be helping you to lose weight at all. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that instead of motivating us to do more exercise every day, fitness trackers may give us a false sense of security and de-motivate us. It found that - as is often the case with these things - there’s no shortcut to getting healthy and fit, and it’s actually more effective to follow
- TechnologyAOL
Wearable fitness gadgets
In the old days the only fitness gadget most of us would have had access to was a stopwatch on our digital watch. Then came the smartphone and if you wanted to keep track of your activity then there was usually an app for that. But now
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