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Can an app improve your health? With Gary Bennett, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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The last few years have seen an explosion of digital technologies that promise to help people achieve their health and fitness goals. As the world confronts what public health organizations have called an obesity epidemic, what role might digital interventions play in combating it? Do these apts work? Do they help people adopt healthier habits? Or conversely, might they contribute to the mental health that weight stigma can take in a culture that's obsessed with thinness.? If you want to try using health and fitness aps, how can you find ones that are effective, helpful and backed by research? Doctor bennet wet pleasur's mind.

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