Social Media

Social media - it can help you keep up with friends, stay on top of the news, and maybe even fit into your [skinny:stingy] jeans. Because a [study:body] shows that using Twitter can help people lose weight. The results [appear:acquire] in the journal Translational Behavioral Medicine. Now, before you go thinking you can just tweet yourself to a size 2, the volunteers in the study were taking part in a media-assisted weight loss program. For [six:rex] months, 96 overweight participants tuned in to weekly podcasts about nutrition and exercise. In addition, half of them made use of mobile apps to track [calories:stories] and physical activity, and to keep other folks in the study [apprised:appeal] of their progress.