Health-e Apps

Health-e Apps: Food + Educate = Fooducate

Posted by Debby Ridgell on October 18, 2012
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Here’s a handy little app – and perfect for those who want to eat healthier, without the rigors and pitfalls of a structured diet.  Fooducate will help you lose weight and improve your overall health simply by making better food choices.

Get the app on your iPhone or Android, then head to the supermarket and start scanning product barcodes.  Fooducate will assign each product a letter grade then translate its food label, outlining the products’ nutritional hazards and highlights – such as trans fats, artificial colors or flavors, and added sugars – as well as the realities of its calories per serving.  Then – and here’s the cool convenience perk – Fooducate offers better product options, which you’ll find right there in the same grocery aisle.

Users like the fact that Fooducate rates processed and packaged foods which, for better or worse, are staples in most of our daily diets.  Recently chosen by Apple as the best health app of the year, Fooducate also won First Place for the Nutrition/Healthy Eating category in the Surgeon General’s 2012 Healthy Apps Challenge.

Download the app today to “healthify your supermarket choices.”

Health-e Apps: Seriously, There’s an App for That?

Posted by Debby Ridgell on September 19, 2012
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Last weekend I assigned Coach Stacy the task of researching the many new and interesting health and fitness apps available to smartphone users.  When I caught up with Coach again yesterday, I asked her what she’d discovered.

“Ridge, I found the most amazing app,” she said, whipping out her iPhone.  “It’s called the ‘Poo Log.’”

I shot Coach my best skeptical expression.  She’s such kidder.  But when she handed me her phone with the fully launched “Poo Log,” it became apparent she was serious.  Yes, there’s an app for that!

The “Poo Log,” available from iTunes for a mere $.99, is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.  And as yucky as you’d think this app might seem, it apparently boasts some health benefits, particularly for those with gastrointestinal issues. 

Users can keep track of their, um, “sessions,” by logging the details of their “results,” including the size and shape, delivery, number of particles, smell, number of “wipes,” and personal sentiments.  The app also includes a graphing feature as well as mildly entertaining “Poo Pastimes” and trivia.

Still not convinced?  Check out this amusing ad for the Poo Log – and then download it to your iPhone today!