Study blasts fitness trackers’ ability to boost health
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Work on your willpower instead.
By Natasha Hinde
A study has found that fitness trackers might not benefit health after all.
Researchers discovered that regular use of a fitness tracker or pedometer did not increase activity levels enough to benefit health – even when a financial reward was involved.
It’s not the first study to suggest that fitness trackers are not all they’re cracked up to be, research published in September found that fitness devices didn’t help people lose weight.
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