Nutrition and Health Apps - Eat With Knowledge

By Adriana Sobel and Jennifer Regester

You just read about apps for nutrition and fitness but you might now be wondering about nutrition and health. These apps are designed to serve as a mobile journal to track your diet and exercise as well as provide general nutrition information, provide recipes and serve as a tool to determine aspects of your health. If this sounds like something you need help with or want to learn more about, download some of these apps today:

LoseIt

LoseIt is a food journal, an exercise tracker, and a place to set and track goals.

To establish an account: enter starting weight, goal weight, gender, height, birthday, your weight goal plan (maintain weight, lose ? lb per week, 1 lb per week, 1 ? lb per week, 2 lb per week). App calculates a daily calorie budget and a date for your goal to be reached by.

My day: Add food (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks).? It gives you the option to search specific foods or scan a bar code, add foods from your favorites or previous meals, and find brand name food. You can also log exercises.

Log: Overview of calories consumed from food, burned from exercise, and overall net consumption for the day.

Motivate: Here, you can add friends on LoseIt for motivation.

Goals: Overview of goals and a weekly chart to see progress and to record current weight.

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Nutrition Tips

Nutrition Tips is an app which offers a wide range of general nutrition tips. You are able to favorite, email, text, or copy these tips to send to a friend!

Your Ideal Weight and BMI

Your Ideal Weight and BMI is an app which determines healthy weights and BMIs.

Start test: Enter height, weight, gender, and birthday and the app calculates your BMI and whether that BMI indicates you are underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese. It gives you a range of healthy weights based on the information you insert.

Vitamins

Vitamins is an app which works like an encyclopedia for various vitamins.

This app contains a search box to search for any vitamin as well as an alphabetical list of the vitamins. It lists the functions of the vitamin as well as sources of it.

Glucose Buddy

Glucose Buddy is a blood glucose log, a food journal, and an exercise tracker.

My info:? Enter date of birth, gender, type, height, and weight.

Add log: Enter details of blood glucose and medicine taken (when you?re out of bed, before breakfast, after breakfast, before lunch, after lunch, before dinner, after dinner, before bed, during night, after bed, before snack, after snack, before activity, during activity, after activity, other) food consumed (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack), exercises (before breakfast, after breakfast, before lunch, after lunch, before dinner, and after dinner), and details of A1C level (done through a home test or a lab test).

Graph: Ability to graph activity, food carbs, systole/diastole heart rate, and weight (must click on options to choose which graph).

GB Forum: Multiple forums/threads about Diabetes and related topics to read.

Health apps: Multiple different nutrition/health apps

Fooducate

Fooducate is a food journal, an exercise journal, a food grader.

Scan: Ability to scan any bar code and gives a detailed nutrition fact list containing calories per serving, foodpoints (the lower the number the better), level of processing as well as an overall grade of the food.

Track my health: Enter details of food consumed (what foods, how much, what times they were eaten) water consumed, and exercises. Here, you can also add any other important notes and current weight.

Browse: This section allows you to browse multiple foods and get the nutrient profile (organize by top graded foods, most popular foods, and recently searched foods.

Sparkrecipes:

Sparkrecipes is a mobile healthy cookbook.

This app allows you to search for various healthy recipes based on certain criteria. You can search for recipes based on food category (poultry, fish, vegetarian, etc.), course, cuisine, dietary needs, or occasion. Each recipe contains ingredients, directions, nutrition facts, and ratings.

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Source: http://eatwithknowledge.com/nutrition-and-health-apps/

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