Everywhere you look, you see them: wearable fitness gadgets. Fitbits, Apple watches, Garmins and other technology claim to help boost your diet, enhance your exercise routine, improve your sleep regime and keep your heart healthy.
But do they really do what they promise?
Jeffrey Lai, MD, MemorialCare family and sports medicine physician, believes the portability of wearable health trackers makes them ideal tools for monitoring healthy habits.
“We all want to feel better, be healthier, happier and more energetic, right? Eating right, getting enough sleep, staying physically active, decreasing stress – these are the foundation of a healthy lifestyle and something I love counseling my patients on,” says Dr. Lai. “But there’s an old saying: ‘You can’t manage what you can’t count.’ Today’s smart phone apps help out the most important healthy details.”
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