Five long-term health improvements from modest weight loss

Karl Hodge
6 min readNov 17, 2019
Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash

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I have been living a quantified life, probably rather pointlessly, for several years. I wear a tracker that counts the number of steps I do every day. It estimates how many calories I burn, measures my heart rate and tells me how well I’m…

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Karl Hodge

Journalist and University Lecturer, writing about health, science, tech and pop culture.