Health and Fitness Applications : The Technologist Magazine

?It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.? ? Mahatma Gandhi

These days there are applications for almost anything in the world, from games to business planners to calendars to voice recognition to millions of other applications. One thing that is important and should be important to all is health. There are many applications for your devices (tablets, smartphones, and computers) that deal with your fitness and health.

There are applications for specific diseases and medical conditions, such as cancer, arthritis, blood pressure, diabetes, and pretty much any other health condition. Cancer.Net is an application available for iPhones and Android devices, and is described as ?accurate oncologist-approved cancer information from Cancer.Net, with tools to help plan and manage your cancer treatment and care?. For diabetes, CareLogger, iPhone and Android applications, is great for keeping track of your diabetes by recording your blood glucose levels, and making sure you take medication and more in a logbook, also available online.

Mobistine is a Palestinian company for developing applications for iPhone/iPad and Android platforms and focusing on building medical and health care applications for both Arabic and English speakers, particularly doctors, patients, and those who seek basic medical information. The applications are written and revised by physicians and professionals in their fields, ensuring that the data is trusted and accurate. One of their applications Heart Diseases is designed to guide you about heart disease and heart attacks; what causes the disease, what forms this disease takes, and what can be done once it occurs. Also, the application provides preventative actions you can take to decrease your chances of having any heart disease, or to minimize the negative effects of an existing heart disease.

Fitness related applications are the most popular. Many applications record and keep track of your exercise activities, nutrition, weight, workouts. Recording individual information related to your fitness is important. You can find applications that record details such as your mileage, the distance you walked, calculates your heart rate and much more.iMapMyFitness is a free application that uses the GPS technology to mark the path you take during your walk or run and tracks your time, distance, pace, speed, elevation and more.? Another good application for maintaining your fitness and watch your diet is Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker, this application has over 350 exercises for cardio and strength training, it has a food database with over 1.1 million foods that is easily searchable and available offline. Also it includes a bar code scanner for when you are shopping, and it can remember your favorite foods. Another more specified app is JEFIT, used by body builders to track progress in a specific muscle in the body, improve workouts, and share results with friends.

Applications concerned with the user?s mental health are many. Mostly, applications that help with phobias, stress, depression, and many other disorders are the most common. There are even some applications that tell you if you need therapy or not and help you fall asleep. Depending on your disorder a mobile application can help you a lot to overcome your anxiety, eating disorder, sleeping disorder, and more. One such application is mym3, an application developed by mental health practitioners using a scientifically validated screening tool for mood and anxiety disorders.

There are many applications that are specifically for children?s fitness and keeping up with your child?s health. Those applications help you maintain records of your child?s physical tests, vaccinations, social and physical wellbeing. A great application for that is called Children?s Health, which includes the definition and symptoms of many diseases and disorders such as ear infection, and attention deficit disorder (A.D.D.), and more. Another application is called Child Vaccination, which not only keeps track of your child?s vaccinations and the dates they were taken but also gives detailed explanations about them.

Of course, health applications can also be gender specific, in other words more related to a man?s fitness than a women?s, considering the biological differences of men and women and the different health issues. There are plenty of great applications for pregnant women that help you manage a healthy pregnancy. One app suggested by many pregnant women and doctors is My Pregnancy Today which turns your phone into an expert guide for each day of your pregnancy and helps you feel more prepared for your baby?s birth and get the answers you need, whenever you need them.

These are only a few from the thousands of other applications for your smartphones and devices that could help you maintain your health. You can also search by categories in the Apple store (Sports and Fitness) and on Android Google Play store (Health and Fitness) to find the applications that suit you the best.

Health is one of the most important things in a person?s life, if you don?t care about your health it is like you are not caring about your life, so take care of yourself, your mind, and body.

gina carano at last al green burger king delivery etta james at last john king obama sings al green