Due to technological advances over
the past decade, it has become easier and easier to monitor and track your own
life style to ensure that you are staying healthy and active. One way of doing
this is by downloading applications on your personal hand held device or smart
phone, that keeps track of things like calorie intake, physical activities,
diet progress, weight loss, and so much more. I personally believe that this
new way of keeping track of your life style allows people to make smarter every
day decisions concerning their health. As obesity is becoming more common in
American households, these applications can help stop and maybe one day decline
the percentage of Americans who are obese. However, the available health
applications are not always to help healthy eating and living; some of them in
fact help people with diseases that they have such as diabetes so that they can
closely monitor and analyze their body’s statistics. This allows taking control
and managing your health a lot easier and convenient as you can always have
access to these applications, whether you are at home or on the road. A major
perk to many of these applications is that it is not just taking and analyzing
the present data, it can store your past data so that you can see how you are
improving over time as well as giving you recommendations for the future to
help you one day reach your goal and become a healthier person.
A popular website that ranks all applications
based on their popularity worldwide is AppAppeal. AppAppeal ranked the top 30
free health apps that help users learn more about their body, diet and overall
wellbeing.
The top five ranked are as follows:
1.
WebMD
2.
LiveStrong.com
3.
SparkPeople
4.
MedHelp
5.
Avvo
If you would like to learn more about your body, diet, or
overall health, these five applications may be a good place to start!
Works Cited
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"Top 30 Free Health
Apps." AppAppeal. Comcoaster, 2008 - 2013. Web. 25 Feb. 2013.
I love this technology. what better way to help stay on track of a diet or change in life style than to have the information right at your finger tips. My wife has gestational diabetes an has an app called calorie king it's been of great help to her. When she is out and wants to eat something she checks on this app the amount of carbs the food has and right then she knows if she can eat it or not. Her lifestyle had to change for a few months and her phone made it easier on her.
ReplyDeleteTechnology really is helping to improve people's knowledge amazingly. There are so many apps that help you count calories, and by doing this people are more knowledgeable about how the food they're eating is affecting their body. I have always been health savvy and tried to keep up with working out and eating healthy as best as possible. I found an app called MyFitnessPal which helps track your caloric intake, and what calories and fat you burn while working out. It has a daily tracking system where you just add in your meals and what they've consisted of, and also what sort of exercise you've done that day, and it says what your caloric intake is at the end. This is an awesome way to keep up with what you've ingested, and how the exercise has counter acted that.
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ReplyDeleteApps are taking over. Working at Nike, we are now required to track our activities at work. Using Nike+ software, the apps can tell us how far we walked, calories burned and even calculate your vertical jump. It's amazing how much technology has advanced in this area.
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