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Health applications as a growing trend among smartphone apps.
Recent years' boom in smartphone industry brought new possibilities in Internet-browsing for the average user. One can take the phone anywhere while talking, taking pictures, playing games, surfing the Web, using social network features, etc. - making all these part of our everyday life wherever we are. This encouraged softaware developers to create products that can be used in everyday situations, or purposely designed for certain issues in life.
Health is exactly such a topic and will be more important as we move along in life. Health applications in our everyday routines.
Health applications can cover topic-related issues in infinite forms, whether is seeking solution to a health problem, a doctor, information, avoiding maladies, keeping journals, self-monitoring, nutrition, making plans, etc.
Most typical apps are journals and planning utilities where one suffering from e.g. diabetes or obesity can set up a nutrition and/or proper training plan, such as "Lose It!", which is a calory count software that helps you planning your diet. You can calculate the calories you are planning taking in by choosing the proper foods that are categorised by calory-count. Foods are further categorised by place of acquisition and type. Also, you can select sports to achieve your goal - again, ranked by their calory-burning effect. All these factors are included in a complex calculator to plan your future activities cojncerning diet and you can share and track your progress as you go along - same with your friends.
Other apps, such as the iPump applications will create you a work-out excercise schedule, helping you to achieve a goal. there are different apps for each workout types. This way you can set up your training process.
Other wellness features include applications that help you relax - by generating various noises, such as a white noise, or dynamic music to help you sleep. Quitter on the other hand helps you to quit smoking by tracking the number of your days without smoking and the amount of money you hence saved due of this.
Another useful feature is a self-diagnosing app - under reasonable usage, of course -, such as Diagnosaurus, where you can find information concerning health issues. Supports differential diagnosis and related ones as well. Gets a bit of insight into the nature and designation of a certain problem.
Similar solutions are specified search engines, such as HealhMash that uses trusted medical sources, thus making it applicable for recieving detailed information and - such as in the case of diagnosaurus - you get related concepts, drugs treatments, etc. Comes handy when e.g. searching for info of a medicine.
These are just five ways of using health apps on your mobile, creativity and development does not stop here, though. As technology proceeds along, there will be more and more features that may help you in your everyday health issues.
