Most people are aware that being overweight and sedentary is commonly associated with being unhealthy. This has spurred a growth in the sales of fitness trackers with 25 million being sold globally last year. Fitness trackers ...
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The headlines say it all. From "Fitness trackers 'don't help weight loss'" through to claims that fitness trackers can "make users fatter" and that "That Fitness Tracker Might Actually Make Losing Weight Harder".
Sep 22, 2016
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Wearable fitness trackers have made it all too easy for us to make assumptions about our health. We may look to our heart rate to determine whether we really felt the stress of that presentation at work this morning, or think ...
Jun 17, 2019
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(HealthDay)—For years, health experts have urged us to get off the couch and get moving. Now a new U.S. government study shows how much we stand to gain.
Mar 24, 2020
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Stroll around the office or neighborhood six times a day, and earn $1.50 toward your health insurance. Step up activity a bit more and bring the total to $1,400 annually.
Mar 27, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Wrist-worn activity trackers such as Fitbit don't reliably assess heart rate, a new study finds.
Apr 10, 2017
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A team of researchers working at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, has found that it is possible to use post-mortem MRI scans to study associations between physical activity and cognition in older adults. They ...
A pre-print study using data from medical wristbands suggests that evidence of disrupted sleep could predict when study participants were coming down with the flu—24 hours before they became contagious.
Apr 8, 2020
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Wearable fitness trackers and step counters help people who are overweight/obese and/or who have weight-related health conditions to shed the pounds, finds a pooled data analysis of the existing evidence, published online ...
Mar 17, 2021
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Fitness trackers can be valuable tools for assessing the quality of life and daily functioning of cancer patients during treatment, a new study has found. The trackers, also known as wearable activity monitors, include commercial ...
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