One thing is for sure: none of us is getting any younger. As the adult population matures, so do health issues. Your iPhone, iPod and iPad can become your best health advocate. Here are some selected apps for home & health
* Limit Time Kids Spend in Front of TV
* Know the Right Bite
* Transform Stress into Creative Productive Energy
* iPad Motion Doctor Helps Prevent Pain
* SayMedicine: Medical Pronunciations
* Prostate Health App for iPhone
* Core Fitness
* Diabetes Management on the iPhone
* Help for Coumadin/Warfarin Users
* Take your medication on time …
Limit Time Kids Spend in Front of TV
ScreenTime encourages children to spend less time watching television and more time doing other more productive, healthy activities. By tracking the minutes each child interacts with the television or computer every day, parents can set a daily time allowance, and allowing kids to earn time and trade their minutes towards customizable rewards.
ScreenTime allows parents to set up a daily allowance of minutes of screen time for each child. It enables the parents to track when and where each minute is being spent with an easy-to-use, intuitive iPhone application.
Full story : Kabrea Technologies
Know the Right Bite
Whether you’re a busy mom, a road warrior, a health nut, or simply someone who just wants to lose weight Barracuda Partners’ weight loss application, intelli-Diet uses a unique, built-in calorie system makes losing weight easy.
intelli-Diet, created for the iPhone and iPod touch, makes losing weight easy by providing users with a personalized healthy eating plan each day. It thinks, you eat, the application automatically provides users with the right foods and portions, so no calorie tracking is needed. Full story : Barracuda Partners intelli-Diet
Transform Stress into Creative Productive Energy
Stress Shifter and Stress Shifter Lite for the iPhone and iPod touch allows anyone to recognize and understand the factors that lead to their daily stress. It offers users a plethora of tools and exercises to discover the origins of their stress. Subsequently, Stress Shifter shows users how they can transform their stress to fuel their own creativity and productivity rather than being bogged down by it.
This app is developed specifically to help users identify and move away – in a psychological sense – from the factors that cause their stress. Based on the proven Breakthrough Technology method of stress relief, Stress Shifter is not a mobile gimmick promising to instantly relieve stress, instead the app gives users a scientifically sound basis through which to find out the root causes of their stress and provides them with a step-by-step process of how to most effectively deal with their issues in a positive and productive manner. Full story : Kibiz Systems – Stress Shifter
iPad Motion Doctor Helps Prevent Pain
Motion Doctor contains over 60 high quality videos that serve as a reference of exercises categorized by body part, activity, sport and occupation. It can also be used by Physical Therapists as a reference tool, showing patients how to properly perform exercises at home.
Physical Therapists are motion experts. They can help improve or restore the mobility you need to move forward with your life. From treating everyday aches and pains to treating more serious problems, Physical Therapists teach you how to take care of yourself, so you can prevent the pain from returning. If you are looking for a possible alternative to pain medication and/or surgery, then consider Physical Therapy. Full story : Blue Whale Apps: Motion Doctor Physical Therapy
SayMedicine: Medical Pronunciations
The SayMedicine: Medical Pronunciations application for iPhone and iPad is designed for healthcare workers and students who are looking to enhance their medical vocabulary. Easily lookup the correct pronunciation of drug names, diseases, bacteria names, and other challenging terms.
The application has a built in sound recorder that allows any user to submit new words. Every few weeks, new words are recorded professionally by SayMedicine’s voice artists and added to their web server. Full story : SayMedicine Medical Pronunciation
Prostate Health App for iPhone
In coordination with Concord Hospital urologist Dr. Ronald Yap, 9magnets LLC has developed Prostate Pal 1.0, an intuitive iPhone application to help men monitor their prostate health.
A voiding diary, AUA test, and PSA score tracker help men use their iOS device to take control of their own health. Through intuitive interface design paired with code optimized for speed and fluidity, prostate health patients have access to a leading iOS application without cost. Full story : 9magnets: Prostate Pal
Core Fitness
Core Fitness for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is created to provide a concise and health minded mobile fitness program. Core Fitness allows users to have a full instructive work-out resource always at their finger tips. Each of the individual exercises detailed within this app offer a series of more and more advanced options so that users will be continually challenged even as their strength and health increases over time.
Unlike many other exercise programs found today, Core Fitness focuses not only on helping its user become more physically fit but also helping them achieve this level of fitness in a manner that also encourages them to stay healthy. Specifically, this program is structured to strengthen user’s core muscle groups such as the upper legs, hips, buttocks, back, abs, and shoulders. Because the training itself is evenly split between adequate yoga stretches and resistance training, users will be able to complete the regiments outlined in this app in only about forty minutes, needing to repeat them only three to four times a week Full story : House of File: Core Fitness
Diabetes Management on the iPhone
With DiabetesPlus, diabetics can manage their readings on their device, and effortlessly export their data into a well formed PDF file in less than 30 seconds. DiabetesPlus features clear illustration with easy-to-read colored indicators, graphical reporting, calculation of important statistics, and much more.
Until now, all known applications can export cryptic data, but with DiabetesPlus, the user gets the possibility to export their data into a well formed pdf-file in less than 30 seconds. Full story : DiabetesPlus
Help for Coumadin/Warfarin Users
Vitamin K allows users to easily find out how much vitamin K there is in over 900 different food servings which is critical in helping keep the effectiveness of their blood thinning medications working properly. For those taking blood thinning medications like Coumadin or Warfarin, (also known as Jantoven, Marfarin, Lawarin, Waran and Marevan) then this app will get used on a regular basis.
Information is derived from the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference: Vitamin K Content of Selected Foods per Common Measure. There are currently over 930 different foods included, searchable using approximately 2,500 names (some foods are known by different names or how they are prepared, e.g., “Egg, Scrambled” and “Scrambled Egg”). Some have as many as six searchable names. Full story : James Hollender: Vitamin K
Take your medication on time
Pill O’Clock 1.0.1 is an application for iPhone and iPod touch, which reminds you to take your medications on time or schedule any activities. It is targeted at people who need an efficient scheduler and reminder, without loads of features that they rarely use or that constantly distract them with unwanted prompts.
Unlike most of other apps, Pill O’Clock uses local notifications so you don’t need to be connected to your network or Wi-Fi for reminders to work. If a great reminder and scheduler are all you need – enjoy the accuracy and convenience of the Pill O’Clock app.
Editor Note: Being connected is a huge negative factor in most, if not ALL iPhone and iPad apps, as we recently discovered on a trip to Africa. There IS NO Wi-Fi! So most of the apps we downloaded to test and review simply did not work. Full story : Pill O’Clock
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