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Accurate Fitness Trackers for People with Obesity

By Shirley Eichenberger-Archer, JD, MA / September 16, 2025

New research solves the problem of inaccurate fitness trackers for people of different sizes. Many may not realize that fitness trackers often miscalculate calorie burn for people with obesity, largely due to differences in gait, speed and energy output. To solve this problem, researchers from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, created a validated, wrist-based algorithm…

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