{"id":1134,"date":"2015-11-10T08:45:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2015-11-10T08:46:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T13:46:32","slug":"using-a-weight-loss-app-study-says-it-doesnt-help-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Using A Weight-Loss App? Study Says It Doesn\u2019t Help Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Lynne Shallcross, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Young American adults own smartphones at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/2015\/04\/01\/us-smartphone-use-in-2015\/pi_2015-04-01_smartphones_07\/\">higher rate<\/a> than any other age group. Researchers from Duke University wanted to see if capitalizing on that smartphone usage with a low-cost weight-loss app might help the 35 percent of young adults in the U.S. who are overweight or obese.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re rooting for smartphones to solve all our health problems, you\u2019re not going to like what the researchers found. The smartphone app didn\u2019t help young adults lose any more weight than if they hadn\u2019t been using the app at all. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/using-a-weight-loss-app-study-says-it-doesnt-help-much\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=23557988&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ufjn5lTag14L8e5R0jvvS7pIcogE894hRMCgObLs-BMOo1gvVvqN4ZmFsQHSEUMudBBuxG-9Zf-gXfwfDX8AqUh6ctA&amp;_hsmi=23557988\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s \r\n validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Lynne Shallcross, Kaiser Health News) Young American adults own smartphones at a higher rate than any other age<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}