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Welcome to episode 63 of the Food for Fitness podcast brought to by foodfor Fitness.com.

I'm your host, Scott Baptay, and it's my absolute pleasure to be chatting with you on another episode.

Now, this week, my guest is coming from Sunny Australia. Dr. Carol Marr is a senior researcher

at the University of South Australia. And Carol and her team have been

researching the development and evolution of popular activity trackers, so your fitbits and so on.

And she's been looking at the relationship between people's activity patterns and their health.

So in this episode, Carl comes on to explain about how accurate are they? I mean,

are they really showing us how many calories we burn and the step counting and so on? We'll be

looking at some of the problems and the differences between tracking, between overweight people,

lean people, people who are more active and so on. We'll be looking at where there's 10,000

steps actually comes from,

the surprising truth about the sleep tracking element,

and the real reason how they help people lose weight.

Now, I've got Fitbit, and if you follow me in social media,

you'll see that I love it, and I love getting these 10,000 steps in.

So I found an extremely interesting episode that's made me question

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