Cell Phones Guilt Trip People to Work Out

Geezer is only moderately thankful that communications technology now offers yet another way to get lazy people to exercise. Writing in the L.A. Times, Jeannine Stein reports on a Stanford medical school study that  gave PDAs to 19 fairly sedentary men and women who
were taught how to use the gadgets and encouraged to do at least 150
minutes of moderate or more vigorous exercise a week (most did brisk
walking). Stein tells us that the 18-person control group received standard written material about
the importance of exercise. At the end of eight weeks, the study group
exercised an average of 310 minutes a week; the control group averaged
125 minutes.Get the message?  Read more in the L.A. Times.