I love technology — especially when it provides value and simplifies my life! Although I’ve followed a healthy diet for quite a long time, I’m always looking for ways to help me continue on that path.
An easy way to stay focused on eating healthy and having a healthy lifestyle is to download health and nutrition apps to your smartphone. This is the perfect solution for getting health information, guidance, and a little motivation, right in the palm of your hand — it can’t get any more simpler than that!
There are tons of nutrition and health apps to download, but I’ve listed several below that I think are worthwhile having:
Healthy Eating
- Fooducate – Scans product barcodes to help you make better food buying choices
- Harvest – Helps you select the best produce
- HealthyOut – Healthy nutrition guide for dining out
- Honest Label – Scans barcodes and gives nutritional information
- Good Guide – Rates products on whether they’re safe, healthy, green, and socially responsible
Sustainable, Organic, and Non-GMO
- True Food – Gives savvy shoppers the 411 on products that are genetically modified
- What’s On My Food? – Reveals the chemicals and pesticides used on foods
- HarvestMark Food Traceability – Traces your food back to the farm where, when, and how it was grown
Fitness and Weight Loss
- Couch-to-5K- Trains beginning runners for their first 5K run
- RunKeeper – Tracks and stores the distance, time, and calorie burn when you run, bike, walk, or hike
- Pocket Yoga – Allows you to create personalized sessions for practicing yoga whenever, wherever
- Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker – Tracks calories and diet to help you lose weight
- Lose It! – Tracks calories, food, and exercise to help you lose weight