Jeff Caplan’s Afternoon News

Taking more steps throughout the day may be as easy as wearing a pedometer. The same may be true for cutting calories by tracking calories or cutting time spent on social media by tracking time spent on social media.

That’s according to researchers at Brigham Young University, who found that just by wearing a pedometer and tracking, study participants took 300 more steps than others who did not wear such a tracker.

Our mind helps us to accomplish something we set out to do, almost without our knowing it, the BYU researchers said.

On Thursday, several Utah lawmakers published a letter explaining their intent to charge Utah abortion providers with a crime, despite an injunction to Utah's trigger law which places the law on hold. Multiple lawmakers signed onto this letter, but later, some walked back their signatures.  Rep. Steven Handy says the letter was not what he thought it was when he signed it. He spoke on Jeff Caplan’s Afternoon News