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Our healthy obsession with fitness trackers
A Financial Times piece examines the growing attachment many people have to fitness trackers and wearable devices that monitor steps, sleep, heart rate and other health metrics. It weighs the benefits of constant self-tracking against the risk of becoming fixated on the numbers, asking whether the data genuinely improves health or simply feeds an anxious habit.
Why now: Wearables are becoming mainstream health tools, prompting debate about how much we should rely on them.
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- Our healthy obsession with fitness trackers · Financial Times
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