Lots of families are out and about taking their long-awaited vacation. Visiting friends and extended family are a high priority for many folks while others enjoy checking out many of the great sites in the USA. Hopefully, you and your family have been able to get away and spend some time together away from home this summer.
Here in Utah and like much of the country, it’s scorching hot right now. If you’re planning on being outside a great deal or you’re going traveling in the near future, there are a number of great apps for you to consider installing on your phone that could come in handy in helping you stay on track with your health and fitness goals or help you get out of a difficult situation when something unexpected happens involving your health. All of the five apps presented below are free, so check them out and consider putting them to good use.
1. Fooducate Healthy Weight Loss by Fooducate, Ltd. Over one million downloads have been made with outstanding reviews. Fooducate has developed an app that will help you lose weight, track your progress and eat REAL food. That sounds great. It describes the app as the only one out there that looks beyond the calorie and helps you eat healthy and tasty foods. Scan the barcode of a particular item and this app will let you know what’s in your food and even suggest healthier alternatives. This app has been featured by numerous media outlets and even discussed on Oprah! Give it a try.
2. Healthy Recipes Free by Riafy Technologies. Our second recommended app helps us to eat healthy by providing recipes for great tasting healthy meals. Use this app to take your menu planning to a higher level. Create healthier meals and snacks for everyone in your family with these well-received recipes.
3. Water Your Body by Northpark. Do you drink enough water? This app will help remind you to drink water regularly and even tracks your water drinking habits. Simply by entering your current weight, Water Your Body will help you determine just how many glasses of water that you need to consume each day. You’ll probably enjoy the sound effects that help remind you to drink some more water found on this app.
4. Calorie Counter — My Fitness Pal. This app has received outstanding ratings from almost 700,000 reviewers. Many concur that this app is the best one around for helping you take those extra pounds off. It has a really fast data entry system for entering food information and keeping track of exercise.
5. WebMD for Android by WebMD, LLC. Over five million people have downloaded this app. It’s a must-have app if you’re out and about a lot as it provides 24/7 access to vital health information and decision-support tools such as WebMD’s Sympton Checker, Drugs & Treatments, First Aid Information, and Local Health Listings. And get this — you don’t need a wireless connection to take advantage of these outstanding features.
There are hundreds and hundreds of health-related apps out there on the market, but the five mentioned above have some really cool attributes that are worth putting on your smartphone as you travel this summer with your family.
