We all know the importance of healthy habits, but sometimes it’s hard to keep them ourselves. In this context, many smartphone apps are being created to help organize and maintain a healthy routine. Here are some of the best examples:
- HealthTap: Includes more than 2.6 million answers from actual doctors and thousands of topics and articles about hundreds of conditions. It is also possible to ask a question for free, get a confidential answer from a doctor within about 24 hours, or pay extra and have a consultation with a doctor immediately.
- Health Pal: With many features, it records and manages daily activities like Walking, Exercise, Calories, and Water consumption to help attain and lead a healthy lifestyle. It also has a new additional feature to show water and diet reminders as notifications.
- Moodpath: This app is a daily check-in tool. It can help users take stock of their emotional lives each day, get insights on specific moods to learn better how to deal with everything happening in their minds, and use many proven techniques, like cognitive behavioral therapy, to work against negative or toxic behaviors.
- MyFitnessPal: Known as one of the best food tracking apps available, it includes an easy-to-use database that offers nutrition information for millions of different foods, including restaurant meals. Users can set their personal goals, and the app will take that and break down the number of calories to take in each day and how much water to drink, always depending if the aim is to lose weight or gain muscle.
- Headspace: As meditation may help reduce stress and improve overall happiness, this app gives a simple and fun way of doing this practice. The library is curated with various programs to help fall asleep, relieve anxiety, and manage stress with different time sessions.
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About the Author: MSci Maísa Melo is a Pharmacist and a current PhD student in cosmetic technology, from São Paulo, Brazil. She has earned her master’s degree from the University of São Paulo and has been involved with the development, stability, safety and efficacy of cosmetics since 2013. She has specialized in the clinical efficacy of cosmetics by biophysical and skin imaging techniques as well as the use of alternative models to animal testing. Her research work has been published in several scientific journals and book chapters from the field.
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