(Seth Wenig/AP)Calorie counting is a useful way to lose weight, but a new study suggests a fitness tracker could sabotage your efforts. A team of Stanford researchers, however, recently called foul after testing these trackers. “It’s just human nature,” Tim Church, professor of preventative medicine at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University who wasn’t involved in the study, told NPR. “These technologies are focused on physical activity, like taking steps and getting your heart rate up,” Jakicic told NPR. “People would say, ‘Oh, I exercised a lot today, now I can eat more.’ And they might eat more than they otherwise would have.”The Stanford study, though, suggests that perhaps the participants were merely working with faulty data.

Source: Washington Post May 25, 2017 08:12 UTC