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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Health. I'm Karen Hopkin. Got a minute?
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2 .Social media, it can help you keep up with friends, stay on top of the news, and maybe even fit into your skinny jeans.
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3 .Because a new study shows that using Twitter can help people lose weight.
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4 .The results appear in the journal Translational Behavioral Medicine.
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5 .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.
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6 .For six months, 96 overweight participants tuned in to weekly podcasts about nutrition and exercise.
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7 .In addition, half of them use of mobile apps to track calories and physical activity,
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8 .and to keep other folks in the study apprised of their progress.
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9 .On the whole, participants reduced their body weight by about three percent.
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10 .But those who used Twitter lost even more: another half a percent for every 10 times they Tweeted.
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11 .Some Tweets offered emotional support, but many were simply informative.
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12 .Like, "Avoided the pastries at this morning's meeting. But I did have a skim mocha without whipped cream."
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13 .Such confessional Tweeting may help dieters stay honest.
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14 .Or at least keep their fingers occupied and out of the cookie jar.
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15 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Health. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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