{"id":336425,"date":"2025-12-08T06:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336425\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:16:12","slug":"2025-health-trends-you-should-actually-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336425\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Health Trends You Should Actually Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple watches, Garmin watches, Fitbit watches, the Strava app \u2026 there are endless ways to track miles walked, calories burned, and steps taken. Not only that, but there\u2019s been a big push to track those measures every time \u2014 and it may be hurting your health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe obsession with self-tracking of health metrics with wearables can increase anxiety and cause you to ignore what your body is telling you,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/baptisthealth.net\/doctors\/michael-swartzon\/869766\" target=\"_blank\" data-skimlinks-tracking=\"7994495\" data-affiliate=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dr. Michael Swartzon<\/a>, a sports medicine physician at Baptist Health Orthopedic Care. \u201cThe raw data can lead to emotional stress when your body is just going through normal biological variations, probably the opposite of your goal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/freespira.com\/leadership_team\/robert-cuyler-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-skimlinks-tracking=\"7994495\" data-affiliate=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robert Cuyler<\/a>,\u00a0a behavioral health expert, whether health tracking is \u201chealthy\u201d is about when and how much you do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe availability of tech-mediated health data is interesting and useful for those who use these tools (smartwatches, rings, etc.) in moderation and for specific purposes, with some guidance by evidence,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, health tracking &#8230; can become excessive, fueling bodily hypervigilance and anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Swartzon encouraged people to focus on the basics: fitting some physical exercise into their day, eating a wide variety of foods, maintaining a regular sleep schedule and listening to their body. All that other data isn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple watches, Garmin watches, Fitbit watches, the Strava app \u2026 there are endless ways to track miles walked,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97,259,7786,19935],"class_list":{"0":"post-336425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-syndicated-huffpost","11":"tag-topical"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}