Poor eating habits and lack of outdoor activities are just two of the common reasons why many of today’s children in the US have a waistline that is beyond the normal range. In a recent survey regarding the prevalence of childhood obesity that was conducted by a non-profit child advocacy organization named Children’s Defense Fund, it reveals that nearly one in three American children are diagnosed to suffer from obesity. Obesity, according to the health professionals who are adept in using medical instruments for diagnosing it, is a medical condition that is very easy to identify yet so difficult to treat.

A team of experts from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry likewise did a study on the health expenditures of the government on childhood obesity and they found out that the US government is spending about a hundred billion dollar annually for the treatment of obese children. And if you will just consider the amount of money that the government is spending for such matter, a number of better projects could probably be accomplished if childhood obesity will be prevented, if not treated.

Fortunately, pedometers were invented. They could be considered as among the medical instruments a person must have because it has the capacity to gauge the physical activities of the wearer. Take note, sedentary lifestyle or lack of physical activity is among the risk factors for the development of childhood obesity. Typical pedometers come as big as a beeper device and are usually expensive therefore; only a few could avail them. But recently, a new and kid-friendly wristwatch-style pedometer called MOVband was introduced and tried to be used by the students and faculty of a certain school in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. With this device, students and faculty were challenged to improve their fitness by taking at least 10,000 steps a day and by that, children will be able to maintain their waistline at a normal range.

The MOVband is much cheaper compared to typical pedometers but it also uses the same technology that most expensive pedometers have like a 3D accelerometer in a solid state chipset. And one more thing that makes MOVband better than other medical instruments for monitoring the physical activity of a person is it’s very user-friendly. According to Blake Squires, who is the founder of MOVband, the slimmed-down features of this device will require only the user to input his/her age and the time the it will start counting how many pace the wearer could make in a day.

Wanda Smith has a family history of obesity and feels glad that cheap medical instruments for gauging the physical activities of a person were already discovered.

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