bodybugg
Take the quesswork out of achieving and maintaining personal health and fitness.

The bodybugg from Apex is an intelligent calorie management system designed to provide consumers with the tools they need to reach and maintain their ideal weight. The two simple components of the bodybugg system - the bodybugg armband, a small, sleek device worn on the upper arm, and the bodybugg web interface - work in tandem to track exactly how many calories an individual has burned and consumed every day.

The sleek, comfortable bodybugg armband, developed by BodyMedia, Inc., (bodymedia.com) monitors four different data points to track calories burned with 92% accuracy. It tracks the smallest activities such as washing dishes and playing with the kids as well as every step wearers take as they walk toward the experts' recommendation of 10,000 steps a day for optimum health.

The online bodybugg interface, is the heart of the weight management system. Users simply uploaded the data from the armband device via a wireless communicator to their PCs. The bodybugg program then calculates exactly how many calories have been used and displays the number of calories available for consumption to maintain weight and reach fitness goals. Customized menus are available to aid in planning nutritional meals within the parameters of each individual's fitness plan, and easy-to-use food-logging program with thousands of known foods in an auto-search database makes keeping track of food intake simple.