Disable Health app step tracking?

Hi all,
I use a product to track my steps (Misfit Shine), the problem seems to be if I have both the shine with me and my phone with me, it's doubling my steps.  i.e.: Today I had a really slow day and didn't get to walk as much as normal.  The shine showed about 3800 steps.  Synced into Health I was showing 7200.  So right now it looks like it's doubling some of the data about walking... I'd really like to stop the health app from reporting steps taken so I can just have the Shine submit steps to Health.

I had the same problem.  I think the IOS 8.0.2 update broke it.  Here's a work around:
1. Select Steps (or whatever you are trying to measure)
2. Select Share Date
3. Select Edit (on the top right corner)
4. Look at the data sources list - there should be two: the iPhone itself and Health.
5. Move the iPhone above Health so that it is a higher priority than Health.
6. Repeat for anything else that is not working.
After I did that it starting showing the correct number of steps.
Hope this helps!
iPhone 5S, iOS 8.0.2

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