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Our healthy obsession with fitness trackers
The Financial Times is examining the widespread habit of tracking steps, sleep and heart rates with wearable devices, asking whether the fixation on fitness data is genuinely improving people's health. The piece reflects a broader debate about how much quantified self-monitoring helps motivation and wellbeing, and where it tips into anxiety or obsession for the millions who now wear these devices daily.
Why now: Fitness trackers and wearables are increasingly mainstream, prompting renewed discussion about their real health benefits and psychological downsides.
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- Our healthy obsession with fitness trackers · Financial Times
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