'Fitness Tracker' Not Effective to Lose Weight
If you want to be healthier, use of fitness tracker is very helpful. However, if your goal to reduce your weight, buy and use these devices less effective one.
New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that fitness tracker can not help a person lose weight as much as expected.
Evidence shows that, any good fitness tracker is used, this tracker is only effective when you want to live a more healthy, not to lose weight.
The study was watched 471 adults were overweight or obese, and had a low-calorie diet for six months.
The participants were also encouraged to be more active and try to get at least 100 minutes of moderate physical activity for a week, keep food and attend counseling sessions. After six months, everyone lost weight.
Later, the group was divided into two: Some wore fitness tracker, others do not. The experiment lasted 18 months until researchers found that people who did not use fitness tracker behasil weight loss average of 6 kilograms. On the other hand, the group with the fitness tracker to lose weight only 3.5 kilograms.
"" Devices that monitor and provide feedback on physical activity may offer more benefits for the purpose of weight loss, "" the researchers concluded in the study.
Albert Matheny, M.S., R.D., C.S.C.S., from SoHo Strength Nutrition Lab and Promix not surprised by the findings.
"" Fitness tracker can be a good tool to provide feedback to public health objectives, such as how many miles you walk, but people still need to have an understanding and feel their own body if you want to lose weight. "
Jim Pivarnik, Ph.D., a professor of kinesiology at Michigan State University, said that experts are not even sure fitness tracker always estimate the numbers correctly.
If you hang a calculation of how much you eat, exercise, or sleep on a metric fitness tracker, you may not get accurate results.
Kelsey Patel, yoga and barre instructor, and owner of Pure Barre Beverly Hills, adding, if someone wants to try to lose weight, fitness tracker will not be until the other things that support weight loss success.
"" You can set all the goals and programs on fitness tracker, however, if you've never had to deal with emotional or mental fitness, the weight may be difficult to come down. "
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