Fitness trackers often fail people with obesity by underestimating their energy burn, leading to discouraging results and misguided health data. A scientist's frustrating experience in an exercise ...

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In a nutshell Most commercial fitness trackers provide inaccurate calorie burn estimates for people with obesity, due to differences in body shape, movement, and gait that these devices weren’t ...

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new algorithm that enables smartwatches to more accurately monitor the calories burned by people with obesity during various physical activities.

Get a load of this — you may be obese after all! About 40% of US adults — more than 100 million Americans — are considered ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers, including two Northwestern University engineers, has received up to $34 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fast-track ...

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Or maybe, as Purdue University sociologist Ken Ferraro has suggested with his previous work, “churches are a feeding ground for gluttony and obesity.” Ferraro, who was not involved in the ...