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8 Healthy Apps For Your iPhone: 8 Photos | iphone, iPhone apps | FitSugar – Fitness, Health & Well-being.

If you have an iPhone and are into improving your health here is article from FitSugar showing 8 apps you can use to help you attain your goal.Enjoy.

Be well.

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It’s that time of year again. Trying to figure out what to give that special someone(s) in your life. It’s not always easy to come up with ideas. Fortunately, there are also many sites and companies out there who advertise their products in the form of ideas in the hopes that you will buy their products or buy products through them. In keeping with that same theme, I found a few health related items that could make good gifts. They could also make good gifts to yourself to maybe help improve or keep your health during the holidays. Here are some of the ideas.

Sometimes it’s nice to know how much your exercising when you’re not formally exercising. Walking here and there or doing chores also counts as exercise, so it would be helpful to put a value to those activities. This item could be handy. Omron HJ-112 Digital Pocket Pedometer. Click up the miles and find out what you are actually doing.

Another idea for that woman in your life who is trying to improve or maintain her heath, this seems to be a good DVD – Women’s Health: Total Workout in Ten!.

Another DVD with a more eastern style of staying healthy is T’ai Chi for Health: Yang Short Form 37 Form. Tai Chi has been getting good reviews by scientists and medical personnel as safe low impact way to exercise without stressing our various joints. Also of value is The Alchemy of Qi Gong Volume I: The Essential Health Practices. Qiqong is a similar format to Tai Chi but a little more energetic. It is also spoken of highly in eastern medicine. Either method would be a good, low impact way to exercise, improve your health and your overall well being.

Sometimes you just have to have one of those foods that just makes you feel good inside, maybe something from your childhood. Well, here’s a book to help you do that and still stay healthy. Hungry Girl Chew the Right Thing: Supreme Makeovers for 50 Foods You Crave

If your trying to lose weight, the holidays generally in not the time to do that. Most people just give up. If you are determined to lose weight, sometimes it helps to have inspiration and a little guidance, try Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life. Maybe it will give the lift you need.

Speaking of inspirational, if you a fan of or ever seen Britain’s Got Talent, then you’ll definitely want to get this album I Dreamed A Dream by Susan Boyle. It’s also available as an MP3 format.

Well, this was just a few ideas. If you think you would like to purchase these items just click on the link. Whether you do or not, have a Happy Holiday and a great New Year.

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Twitter

Social networking has become a big part of life on the internet. It allows us to extend our circle of friends and contacts beyond our usual area of business and the cities we live in. This also increases our immediacy of knowledge which can be beneficial to our health and wellness. Keeping up with food alerts and new trends in health can help make our lives richer and fuller. One of those services is Twitter. If you use Twitter, whether on your computer or on your mobile phone, there are various government agencies that post alerts and current information on the social networking site. All you have to do is click on the link below and login in or join and click on the follow button to follow them You will receive the information as it is posted. Here are some that may be worth following:

MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), several government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and allow easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

The Food Safety Information Center (FSIC) specializes in providing food safety information to educators, the industry, researchers and the general public. Using available technology, the FSIC staff develop solutions that disseminate information on a variety of food safety topics.

USDA’s Team Nutrition is an integrated, behavior based, comprehensive plan for promoting the nutritional health of our Nation’s children. This plan involves schools, parents, and the community in an effort to continuously improve school meals, and to promote the health and education of 50 million school children in more than 96,000 schools nationwide.

Nutrition.gov provides easy access to the best food and nutrition information from across the federal government. It serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers.

CDC.gov is the CDC’s primary online communication channel. Annually, there are close to 500 million page views to the site, averaging 41 million page views per month. The CDC.gov website provides users with credible, reliable health information on:

And more…

Disability.gov is a federal web site that contains disability-related resources for programs, services, laws and regulations to help people with disabilities lead full, independent lives. With just a few clicks, visitors can find critical information on a variety of topics, including benefits, civil rights, community life, education, emergency preparedness, employment, housing, health, technology and transportation. For help on how to find resources on this site, visit the How to Use this Site section of Disability.gov.

Natural Standard is an international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Using a comprehensive methodology and reproducible grading scales, information is created that is evidence-based, consensus-based, and peer-reviewed, tapping into the collective expertise of a multidisciplinary Editorial Board. The mission of this collaboration is to provide objective, reliable information that aids clinicians, patients, and healthcare institutions to make more informed and safer therapeutic decisions. Natural Standard is one of the world’s premier sources of information in this area.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC’s work to ensure the safety of consumer products – such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals – contributed significantly to the 30 percent decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.

Established in 1997, the National Diabetes Education Program is a federally-funded program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and includes over 200 partners at the federal, state and local levels, working together to improve the treatment and outcome for people with diabetes, promote early diagnosis, and prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.

And last, but certainly not least is AARP , which was founded in 1958. This is not a government site. AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organizationthat helps people 50 and over improve the quality of their life If you are over 50, this is a great organization for a variety of topics, resources, information and discounts.

We have such wonderful technology available these days to assist us in maximizing our quality and longevity of life, I hope you utilize and implement these social networks and reap the benefits to holistic wellness they have to offer.

Be well

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Came across this article while wandering the web. This was on Jeff Yeager’s column at www.AARP.org. Jeff has been titled “The Ultimate Cheapskate” for his ability to find multiple ways to NOT spend a lot of money and keep it in your pocket. He has even published a book, “The Ultimate Cheapskate’s Road Map to True Riches: A Practical (and Fun) Guide to Enjoying Life More by Spending Less.” So enjoy the video and check out the column at AARP.

The Freecycle Network: Good for the Planet (and Your Wallet)

By Jeff Yeager

My Generation: Freecycle

From ‘My Generation’ TV

“Freecycling” allows you to be a part of a community. On the Web, post items that you want to give away and receive—free of charge. Find out how to get started.

For more details and the rest of the article go to Freecycle Network

Reprinted from www.AARP.org

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