Clever Kids Put Pedometers on Their Dogs
Jul 16th, 2009 Posted in Weight Loss | no comment »
It would be horrible, if it wasn’t so funny. Or, maybe it would be funny, if it wasn’t so horrible – children in an east London borough tricked researchers when they took the pedometers they’d been assigned to measure their activity levels, and put them on their dogs.
Baffled at why some of the obese children, who were obviously very active during the day (at least according to their pedometers), could still be obese despite all that extra exercise, researchers took a closer look.
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The New York Times reported that obese children, and those with high cholesterol, have symptoms that are early warning signs of heart disease.
