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You might not be as active or as fit as your fitness wearable device is telling you. According to a new scientific study, many such leading wearables are inaccurately reporting the amount of calories burned each day compared to traditional calorie counting methods,

As reported by Mobi Health News, JAMA Internal Medicine published a scientific paper yesterday authored by Japanese researchers from Tokyo’s National Institute of Health and Nutrition. The researchers found many popular fitness wearables registered an error margin of about 200 calories per day when measuring energy expended.