Cell phone texts and weight loss

October 14, 2009 by Colby
Filed under: Nutrition 2.0, Technology 

An interesting study published recently found that people receiving tips via text message throughout the day lost an average of about 10 pounds in 4 months compared to no change in the control group.

This is a very small lifestyle change using a common technology that resulted in a pretty substantial weight loss, which usually takes more extreme interventional methods.

Some nutritionists use Twitter to send out nutritional or motivational tips throughout the day to their followers, it would be interesting to see if this method had the same effect.

Read a summary of the study here: http://www.obesitypanacea.com/2009/10/cell-phone-text-messages-panacea-for.html

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