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10 Android Apps for Health & Fitness
Forget summer and swimsuit season; any time is a good time to get in shape. And for Android users, these apps will make that process a little faster, easier and more fun. Last year, we told you about a few good Android apps to get your lazy butt in gear.
BodyMedia
HeartSpark
In advance of our next Bay Area Quantified Self Show&Tell meetup, which will have a Health and Medicine theme, this roundup post is on health- and medicine-related self-tracking tools. Blood pressure, genetics, medical test results, blood sugar readings, hormone levels, dietary experiments – if you have a self-tracking project, gadget, or app, we want to know about it! (And good news for all non-San Franciscans – we’ll be trying our first ever livestream of the event on January 11! Stay tuned for more info.) This post is part of our regular tool roundup for the complete catalog we’re putting together of all the self-tracking tools out there. Please help us to make sure we include your favorite tool, your company, or your project.
Health and Medicine Tools
Health Month - Live healthier, for fun!
Health Month is a game to help improve your diet, fitness, mental health, relationship health, and financial health – while enjoying it! Health Month is about taking the SCIENCE of nutrition and behavior change and combining it with the SOCIAL GAMES of the recent social web to help people improve their health habits in a fun and sustainable way. If you can enjoy the process of living healthier, you're much more likely to stick to it.
We've written before about the Quantified Self , the movement to track our own behavior and biology online in order to know where we're at and how well we're taking care of ourselves. This week I learned about what is undoubtedly the most sophisticated self-tracker I've seen yet: Basis . Now available for pre-order ($199), this bundle of sensors in a wrist band includes an Optical Blood Flow Sensor (heart rate), 3D Accelerometer (movement, including sleep patterns), temperature and Galvanic Skin Response (sweat). All in one device.