Welcome to Heart Health Month!
We'll be celebrating each week with a focus on the different areas of
lifestyle that need the most attention in preventing and/or treating
heart disease. As we try to continue looking at health with a fresh
perspective, we're venturing outside of the usual "tips & tricks" to
adjust your daily routines. Instead, today we're highlighting how to
stay healthy in this tech-savvy world - we've found a few great apps
that help you track, monitor and evaluate your health, behaviors and
progress!
Free Tools:
My Fitness Pal (Android, iOS)
- one of the most user-friendly and top-rated health apps that makes
food, calorie and activity tracking easy! It boasts an extensive food
database, a barcode-scanner to help users select healthier grocery
choices, and customized caloric recommendations.
Fooducate (Android, iOS) -
the app designed to make healthy grocery shopping easy! The built-in
barcode scanner provides users with a detailed product description based
on nutritional value (or lack thereof).
Healthy Heart 2 (iOS) -
dubbed a "prevention/monitoring app" , this allows users to track
important health marker checks such as blood pressure, cholesterol,
blood glucose and heart-rate. It also provides a method to track
medication usage and a way for users to share their data with caretakers
and/or family members.
For the low price of:
$0.99
Heartwise Blood Pressure Tracker (iOS)
- another tracking app with the added bonus of charts, graphs and data
analysis for users. This app allows users to log blood pressure,
heart-rate and weight.
Instant Heart Rate (Android, iOS)
- a creative use of LED light technology (camera), this app simply
passes light through the user's finger to read his/her heart-rate,
instantly.
Sleep Cycle (iOS)
- an app that rethinks the alarm clock, using technology to track your
sleep cycle and wake you up at the right time! It chooses your lightest
sleep cycle closest to the alarm time you set, to make sure you wake up
well and rested.
$2.99
Cardiio (iOS)
- created by the masterminds at MIT, here's another app that uses the
camera feature to provide an instant heart reading. Users look into the
iPhone camera to get a heart-rate reading from this app. It also
provides a fitness-level analysis based on the user's reading.
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