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Popular Brazilian Instagram influencer and local politician Fernanda Oliveira da Silva, aged 30, was found deceased at her home in Lago Verde. Known for her fitness and lifestyle content, she also ...

As advanced AI models become better at understanding different types of input — such as text, voice, and images — and converting them into nutritional data, fitness apps that let people log their food ...

Is your phone sabotaging your gains? New research suggests that popular calorie-counting and workout-tracking apps may be doing more harm than good, leaving users feeling frustrated rather than fired ...

Fitness and calorie-tracking apps may not always be the motivational tools they appear to be. According to new research from University College London (UCL) and Loughborough University, some users ...

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Fitness apps that track calories, step counts and give unachievable goals could be doing more harm than good, researchers warn. But many apps do not use “evidence or theory-based” approaches to ...

A study published in the British Journal of Health Psychology reveals the negative behavioral and psychological consequences of commercial fitness apps reported by users on social media. These impacts ...

A study published in the British Journal of Health Psychology reveals the negative behavioral and psychological consequences of commercial fitness apps reported by users on social media. These impacts ...

We make hundreds of decisions about food every week — where to eat, what to cook, which brands to buy. Add in busy schedules, and it’s no wonder so many of us feel overwhelmed and are looking for a ...

Objective To examine whether a multicomponent commercial fitness app with very small (‘micro’) financial incentives (FI) increased population-level device-assessed physical activity (PA) over 2 years.

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