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Mon 07 Jul 2009Obese children give researchers the runaround in exercise study
Children taking part in a study to measure how much exercise they do fooled researchers by attaching their pedometers to their pet dogs, the BBC has reported.
About 200 children in east London were given pedometers to automatically count how many steps they walked and ran.
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