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Medical Video: MY FAVOURITE HEALTH APPS
As an office worker, it's normal to be hit by the stress of daily work. Not to mention the hours of sleep that are never enough. So much time is wasted in front of the smartphone screen. Fortunately, this device can also be used to promote healthy living.
Many smartphone applications are available out there that target every aspect of a healthy lifestyle. If you don't find the motivation to gym, there is an application that will fine you every time you skip training. If you can't determine which cereal is healthier, there are applications that can narrow your choices.
Of course, a healthy lifestyle is not only just eating fruits and vegetables and sports. Mental health is also just as important, and many smartphone applications can help you find a local therapist or just calm down after a day of work.
Can you live healthy without the help of a gadget? Of course. But, why not take advantage of extra help that is easily accessed and used. These ten applications can help you track and improve the quality of your personal health.
Couch to 5K
This application is suitable for those of you who don't like running but want to start. The 5K Couch will help you with a nine-week step-by-step exercise plan to prepare you for a longer distance: 5 kilometers.
The stages of the plan are flexible, you can take turns between walking and jogging before actually switching to a more calorie-burning exercise. One training session does not require a lot of time (20-30 minutes and only needs to be completed three times per week) and allows you to rest one or two days, even more, before continuing.
To help increase motivation, these apps provide virtual coach features, results tracksheet, and built-in music player that you can make friends when running.
Available in iOS and Android
Sworkit
Five minutes of exercise is better than nothing, this is the principle that Sworkit wants to instill. These apps have 160 types of physical training demonstrated by professional personal trainers. You can start the exercise based on the body parts that you want to shape, and choose the duration of the exercise that can be adjusted to your routine schedule. With Sworkit, there is no reason to skip training because there is no time.
This application is paid, but you can download the free version. The difference is that the paid version provides a more diverse type of training, helps you design and modify the types of exercises that you want, and keeps a record of your practice.
Available in iOS and Android
Zipongo
Zipongo helps you maintain a diet by designing a meal plan per week and providing various types of healthy recipes that are tailored to your needs to the allergic tendencies that you desire.
Zipongo is the result of a doctor's design at Boston Medical Center in collaboration with Fitness Forward to provide people with easier and more affordable access to a healthy diet and lifestyle.
Available in iOS and Android
Lumosity Mobile
Lumosity is an application designed by neurologists as a training aid to improve your cognitive abilities. Lumosity uses a number of simple but challenging games to train every part of your brain. In addition, you can modify the level of difficulty and track the history of your brain development while playing Lumosity.
This application is paid, but you can download the free version.
Available in iOS and Android
Drugs.com
Drugs.com provides complete and reliable information about medicines.
You can make a list of medicines that you are taking and receive medical information related to these drugs. Feature search allows you to track one of the many drugs listed on the drugs.com database. You can also identify drugs that you feel are not familiar with entering the type, shape, or color of the drug.
Available in iOS and Android
Breathe2Relax
Breathe2Relax is an application designed for stress management. This application allows users to run breathing exercises to reduce stress, stabilize mood, control anger, and control anxiety.
This application can be used independently as your daily stress solution or as a combination with therapy from a doctor.
Available in iOS and Android
SAM: Self Help for Anxiety Management
SAM is an application designed to help users manage their anxiety. Users can enter records of their anxiety levels and identify different triggers. This application includes 25 choice ways self-help which helps users adapt to physical and mental signs and symptoms of the anxiety. SAM users can modify their personal profiles and allow them to share stories anonymously with other SAM users.
Available in iOS and Android
Moves
Moves are apps that serve as reminders and recorders of travel distances that you make every day from walking, up and down stairs, to cycling.
Move will also count the calories you burn and appear in simple graphs that are easy to understand. You can also record your travel routes and put them on the map.
Available in iOS and Android
Noom Weight Loss Coach
Noom combines pedometers and nutrition instructors in one application. Noom features a list of foods and sports that you can modify according to your daily life, while simultaneously recording the history of your trip every day.
Not only that, Noom will also send health articles and healthy recipes to keep you focused. The list of foods in the Noom database is distinguished by color, teaching users where food is healthy and must be consumed, which foods are not healthy.
Available in iOS and Android
Calm
Calm features a seven-day program designed to help you sleep better. These apps target different aspects of sleep that can be enhanced by meditation help. The "Calm" feature in this app focuses on positive thinking and meditation postures, while the "Sleep" feature is designed specifically for those of you who need help to calm down.
Calm also features relaxation music combined with pictures of beautiful scenery. The timer feature will wake you up with an alarm sound that won't surprise you.
Available in iOS and Android
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