The "Hot Trends" section of Wired Magazine (March 2013) dedicated a full report on Ray Cronise's study on the impact of cold to human metabolism. Ray Cronise tests try to demonstrate that exposing the body to cold can be a radically effective spur for losing weight.To know more about his findings: click here Wired Magazine writer Steven Leckar...

New York Times article presents a study where energy expenditure and other physiological data of hunter-gatherer populations are compared to their Western counterparts. The article of the NYT is written by Herman Pontzer (Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, New York, USA), who was among the team that lead the scientific study. The main...

COSMED is proud to announce that it was selected to outfit the physiology assessment laboratory in the 23rd James Bond adventure movie: SKYFALL James Bond movies have always featured leading-edge products and technologies. The selection of COSMED recognizes its innovative equipment and know-how in the field of functional evaluation and diagnost...

The former football champion Ronaldo, who reached 118 kg after the conclusion of his football career, has participated to a reality show on weight management. The show "Medida Certa" on the Brazilian TV Fantastico showed the different tests that Ronaldo had to face before starting his weight management plan. Among these tests also the body comp...

An article by the Spanish online magazine SportLife.es focuses on the focus given to anthropometrics monitoring by the medical team of legendary Spanish footbal team Real Madrid. Real Madrid has been the first Spanish football team to acquire a Bod Pod and is using it for accurate body composition monitoring to its athletes to assess their fitn...

Maximum oxygen uptake was measured on all football players of the Italian national team, during the training sessions in preparation for Euro 2012. The athletes underwent some physical tests wearing the COSMED K4b2 metabolic monitor and mask. The tests included functional assessment by measuring anareobic threshold with the Mognoni test. See t...

Gas exchange measurement tests were performed to off-road motorcycle riders at the Motocross Millsaps Training Facility in Cairo, GA (USA). According to Clint from Innovative Performance (the company that managed the tests): "Our main reason for buying the K4 was to have a mobile system that will allow us to test in the lab or 'in the sport'. W...

As a result of the recently completed acquisition of Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI), a leading provider of body composition assessment equipment in infants, children and adults, COSMED USA, Inc. and LMI have merged, with COSMED USA, Inc. as the surviving company. COSMED USA, Inc., and its parent company, COSMED srl, a European company with Headqu...

COSMED USA, Inc. announces the recently completed acquisition of Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI), a leading provider of body composition assessment equipment in infants, children and adults. LMI develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices designed to provide the most accurate body composition based on Air Displacement Plethysmography techn...