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BodyMedia
Contact: Lynn Seay or Kelley Denny, prwerks, +1 412.784.1719, www.bodymedia.com
Innovative Body Monitoring Products Help Users Make Lifestyle Changes that can Help Prevent or Control Disease, Improve Health, and Maximize Daily Performance
Founded in 1999, BodyMedia, Inc. is the pioneer in developing wearable body monitoring systems designed to help people lose weight, improve performance, and live a healthier lifestyle. Their patented multi-sensor technology, currently used by medical practitioners in over 20 countries, has been enhanced and miniaturized for a variety of new users, including individual consumers, health and fitness clubs, and corporate and state wellness programs. Users are able to monitor calorie burn, physical activity intensity and duration, step count, and sleep duration and efficiency. This makes it possible for users to identify those specific lifestyle factors that can be changed to maximize the improvement of their health. No other consumer-oriented body monitoring products can measure daily physical activity and calories burned with BodyMedia's greater than 90% accuracy.
Global health issues related to lifestyle-obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease-continue to grow. As a result, some segments of healthcare are evolving into a collaborative network of professionals, patients, and consumers who are taking a more proactive role in the prevention of illness by tracking and managing day-to-day behaviors that impact health. As the urgency of these global health issues increases, so too does the need for easy to use, affordable, wearable, body monitoring products that will facilitate changes in lifestyle behaviors.
Responding to these trends and challenges over the past 10 years, BodyMedia has received numerous patents for the novel use of sensors to collect physiological information and developed wearable body monitoring products that have helped more than 400,000 users monitor more than 10 million days of activity, burn 10 billion calories and track 70 billion steps.
BodyMedia has a proven track record in health and weight management and has been featured in many national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, Fast Company, Outside, Medical Device Daily, Forbes, Wired, Popular Science, and US News & World Report.
In the next few months, BodyMedia will make the latest version of its wearable body monitoring products available to international consumers starting in Canada and the United Kingdom
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