Have you had second thoughts about smart watches? I've never owned one but resisted because of the constant low radiation that would be coming into my body. But I will say I'm a bit addicted to checking the number of steps that are recorded daily on my iphone. Lindsay Crouse is a sports specialist who writes for the New York Times. Here's an excerpt of her recent article stating the downside of smartphone monitoring for weight loss. "Does this constant monitoring of our vital signs truly yield better health? There’s no clear answer yet. One study found that people trying to lose weight who used wearable technology to help actually lost less weight than their watch-free counterparts. A review in the American Journal of Medicine found “little indication that wearable devices provide a benefit for health outcomes.” Another issue is that the measuring abilities of wearables are imperfect for some metrics."
There are two other concerns I have about relyin gon technology for health outcomes: 1. it removes you moves you from using your own intuition and judgment about how you are feeling - not good to become so detached from the "home" you live in all your life; and 2. it provides personal health information to who knows who through the sketchy privacy laws around individual's personal information.
Maybe it's time for me to track a distance I want to walk each day and turn off the iphone pacer app. Thoughts?