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Feb 7

High tech programs boost health

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Technological advances in mobile technology have changed the way many people go about their daily lives.

Everything from schedule management to photography has been made easier.

Mobile applications even have been designed to change the way we monitor and manage our health.

The days of starving yourself or seeking expensive advice to try to manage weight loss and diet habits may soon be a thing of the past.

Smartphones and tablet computers — available wherever you go — now can act as health and weight monitors. They can be programmed to offer guidance and, in many cases, are wired to large networks designed to gather and filter information.

According to a recent article in The New York Times, it has taken users about two years to start using health and diet apps on a regular basis. Furthermore, numbers of users are quickly on the rise.

One of the most publicized apps — Lose It — is estimated to have been downloaded several million times by iPhone users who collectively report having lost more than 8 million pounds. The app is designed to allow users to set goals and establish daily calorie budgets. The app calculates the number of calories eaten when users enter what they have eaten.

Abilene Christian University student Rebecca Jackson uses Lose It on a regular basis and said the convenience of the app allows her to feel like she has the time to better manage her health.

"I have struggled to eat better and lose weight since high school — and I couldn't do it," Jackson said. "It is easier for me now because all I have to do is enter what I eat into the app and get a quick score of how I am doing. It is almost like a video game."

After seeing the success that independent app designers have had with weight loss and health management apps, large companies have taken notice and now are racing to get their apps in front of a vast virtual audience.

Companies such as Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig have released apps designed to work with or without their particular diet plan offerings that can be downloaded by anyone interested in their features.

Weight Watchers released its Weight Watchers Mobile app in 2011 with a robust list of advanced features. Users can track the number of points that they have accumulated based on what they have eaten by entering single food items or full recipes. The app can also gather information about a particular food item when the item's bar code is scanned with the camera of a mobile device. Personal advice and diet counseling are offered to users who also use the company's paid diet services.

Jenny Craig offers a more basic app that mimics what a number of other diet-related apps are designed to do. The app is preprogrammed with the menus and nutritional information of more than 150 nationally recognized restaurant chains. Users simply enter what they eat — or plan to eat at these restaurants — into the app to calculate a calorie count.

More information about heath and diet related apps, including user ratings and testimonials, can be found in either the Apple App Store or in Google's Android Market.

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