Janet Hauck, Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology at Michigan State University uses air displacement technology to measure a baby’s body fat composition to track the positive impact that physical activity has on an infant’s overall growth..   Infants who exercise have a reduced risk of childhood obesity! The more fat an infant gains in their first year, the more likely they will become...

COSMED PEA POD was recently featured in a NBC News article. Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center is leading the way in research about infant body composition and metabolism.   Leanne Redman, who directs the maternal and infant research lab, said "Studying metabolism in the first weeks of life — long before a person's weight is influenced by outside factors like...

A video from Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Brianna Moore, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health, used COSMED PEA POD to investigate the longitudinal association of neonatal adiposity (fat mass percentage) with BMI trajectories and childhood overweight and obesity from ages 2 to 6 years. [ Video credits:...