A preliminary study of a health monitoring smartband, the Healbe GoBe2, showed the technology to be about 89 percent accurate in automatic tracking of digested calories. A 14-day study was completed by 27 adult volunteers between the ages 18-40 years old, 11 men and 16 women.
During the study, conducted by researchers at The Foods for Health Institute at the University of California, Davis, calorie counting accuracy was assessed by comparing data from the manually recorded intake of volunteers and data from the GoBe2. Study volunteers were prescreened for presence of health conditions, diseases and behaviors that can result in abnormal metabolism. Study meals were prepared at UC Davis’s Cuarto Dining Commons commercial kitchen by trained food service personnel. A research team analyzed the calorie content of each individual menu item, weighed, recorded, portioned and served the food and recorded plate-waste for all study volunteers at each meal served in the dining facility. Then the researchers examined the correlation between recorded intake and data from the GoBe2 to determine how well the device and its algorithms estimated the actual diet of volunteers. Data from the study were transformed into three-day rolling averages, and the GoBe2 accuracy
was 87 percent. Over 14 days, the GoBe2 showed an accuracy of 89.6 percent in measuring calorie intake in this sample.
The ability of the Healbe GoBe2 to so accurately track calorie digestion significantly differentiates it from other wearable health monitoring smartbands. The level of accuracy exceeds the effectiveness of comparable devices, as other wearables rely on human recording of diet and calorie ingestion, and the potential for human error in that process typically puts accuracy at well below 50 percent.
Sara Schaefer, Ph.D., Associate Director of Technology and Education at the Foods for Health Institute, led the study. Her research focuses on measuring people’s unique diets and metabolism using non-invasive technologies.
About Healbe
HealbeT Corp. is a global health and wellness wearable company founded in 2012. Healbe GoBe2 is the world’s first and the only smartband technology with unique features such as 100% automatic tracking of calorie intake, water balance, and stress.
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