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By COLUMBUS: Ohio State University researchers want to learn whether your cell phone can be an important tool for getting or staying fit.
POSTED: 09:06 a.m. EST, Jan 07, 2008
A study starting soon will track around 80 women for 12 weeks as they receive daily, automated reminders on their cell phones telling them to keep exercising.
Half the group also will get personalized calls from fitness coaches who will offer tips and answer questions.
The goal is to find out whether a little electronic nagging can motivate older women to exercise in hopes of reducing breast cancer.
But research leader Prabu David says his team also wants to see if certain kinds of people respond better to certain types of calls. He says the findings could lead to special cell phone reminders for smokers or junk food junkies.
A study starting soon will track around 80 women for 12 weeks as they receive daily, automated reminders on their cell phones telling them to keep exercising.
Half the group also will get personalized calls from fitness coaches who will offer tips and answer questions.
The goal is to find out whether a little electronic nagging can motivate older women to exercise in hopes of reducing breast cancer.
But research leader Prabu David says his team also wants to see if certain kinds of people respond better to certain types of calls. He says the findings could lead to special cell phone reminders for smokers or junk food junkies.
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