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6 Ways Your Smartphone Can Help You Stay Healthy

You can use your smartphone to guide you to live a healthy lifestyle. There are so many apps and software to help you stay fit and healthy. From eating healthy, fitness advice, to even monitoring some of your body organs. The following are some of the ways you can use your smartphone to stay fit and healthy.

1. Eating Healthy

Being healthy starts with eating healthy meals. You can install smartphone apps that will help you choose what to eat. These mobile applications can offer you ingredients, ways to prepare the meals, giving an option for a more healthy meal or suggest low calories foods. Some apps even allow you to speak directly to a real nutritionist to help you pick the right diet for you. These apps remind and motivate the users to eat healthy and low carbs foods.

2. Tracking your Fitness Progress

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You can install mobile apps with motion sensors on your smartphone. This helps keep track of your fitness progress. These apps can take measurements of the distance traveled, count the number of steps you make and how many stairs you have climbed. If you are looking for a good application to keep track of your fitness, check out the flexispy. In addition to the distance traveled, the phone can also record the number of calories you have burned, the amount of sleep required each night, as well as notify you the number of steps or miles left your next workout.

3. Monitoring Your Heart

There are smartphone applications that you can use to record your heartbeat rate. These apps will mostly ask for your weight, height, the level of activity and gender. They can take a rough measurements of your oxygen saturation, which is important for people who are asthmatic or the athletes.

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4. Healthy Reminders

There are so many applications that you can use to remind yourself to do something for your health. The applications can remind you of your next doctor’s appointment, remind you to take medicines, supplements or vitamins. You can use it to remind you to go for your exercises or to remind you of your bedtime.

5. Helps Your Mental Health

Using your smartphone can help improve your mental health. Studies have shown that engaging in video games can help improve your cognitive skills, lower depression, and stress and help the user become more attentive. It can help the user think more quickly and boost theirmemory capability. There are application that guide stressed individuals to do meditation based exercises to combat stress and depression.

6. Keeping Track of Your Family

You can use your smart phone applications to help track of where your family members are at a particular time. Such family members are those with medical conditions such as mental illness or any other life threating sickness like asthma or your teenagers.

Other than just calling and use of social media, your smartphone can help you live a healthy life. Using these applications is easy and very convenient. It can help you eat well, monitor some of our organs, exercise, remind of important health appointments and help in critical situations.

By Alexis Anderson | Published March 21, 2019

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