{"id":7880,"date":"2016-08-31T23:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T23:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyonhealth.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/online-tools-help-people-improve-their-health-but-need-more-study\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T23:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T23:31:37","slug":"online-tools-help-people-improve-their-health-but-need-more-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/31\/online-tools-help-people-improve-their-health-but-need-more-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Online tools help people improve their health but need more study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Madeline Kennedy (Reuters Health) &#8211; Mobile apps and web-based programs do help people reach health goals like exercising more, losing weight and quitting smoking, but studies need to follow-up longer to see how sustainable these interventions are, according to a recent review of existing research. Lifestyle choices like poor diet and smoking are a major cause of death and disease worldwide, the researchers write in the Journal of the American Heart Association, and digital tools may be a low-cost and more accessible option for people looking to improve their health. \u201cOur results suggest internet-based and mobile-based interventions can be effective tools for behavioral modification,\u201d said lead author Dr. Ashkan Afshin, the Assistant Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Madeline Kennedy (Reuters Health) &#8211; Mobile apps and web-based programs do help people reach health goals like exercising more, losing weight and quitting smoking, but studies need to follow-up longer to see how sustainable these interventions are, according to a recent review of existing research. Lifestyle choices like poor diet and smoking are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-7880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}