Becker's Healthcare December 22, 2021
Georgina Gonzalez

Fitness trackers and wearable devices can encourage healthy behavior by measuring everything from heart rate to sleep quality, but some people find that their wearables also can lead to unhealthy behaviors, The Washington Post reported Dec. 21.

Here are three:

1. Becoming obsessed with tracking

Some people may become so fixated on achieving numeric tracker goals that they become obsessed.

2. Becoming demotivated

Trackers can reduce the desire to exercise...

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