| Your iPhone is now the most powerful thing in your | | | | the mystery pill you found. You can even view |
| pocket. Its functions are in the hundreds. The nice | | | | pictures of the pills to help you further identify the |
| thing is you can pick and choose what you will use | | | | medicine. It is truly useful when trying to avoid |
| your iPhone for besides making calls. There are now | | | | dangerous combinations of drugs. |
| several different free iPhone apps designed with | | | | |
| health in mind. | | | | Another free iPhone app for fitness is “Weight |
| The first free iPhone app is a calculator. It is called | | | | Tracker.” This is exactly the title. It allows you to |
| “PointsCalc” and it allows you estimate | | | | track your weight. It could be the motivation you are |
| nutritional value. You have to enter the calories, fiber, | | | | looking for just to have tracking in your pocket. It |
| and fat of a food and it will tell you its value. The | | | | allows you to send this info to a website to help see |
| benefit is the ability to figure out nutrition value | | | | your progress. |
| without accessing the internet. This eliminates the | | | | “Restaurant Nutrition” is another free iPhone |
| difficult task of constantly looking up your foods | | | | app with health in mind. Well, maybe it is just here to |
| nutritional value. | | | | scare you. You can look up nutritional information |
| The second free iPhone app is another calculator. The | | | | about some of your favorite fast good chains. You |
| “2Fat” app allows you to estimate body fat | | | | can then track what you have eaten. You then can |
| and body mass index. You have to input your | | | | send your intake to a website for further tracking. |
| gender, weight, and waist and it then does the | | | | It is hard to believe that your cell phone could |
| calculation. | | | | actually help you improve your health. Furthermore, |
| An interesting free iPhone is Epocrates Rx. This is an | | | | there are several paid applications that act like |
| iPhone application that allows you to get information | | | | personal trainers teaching activities like running and |
| on 300 different types of medication. You can look | | | | hiking. Maybe you are just starting your health |
| up the dosing, adverse reactions, pharmacology, and | | | | journey and these free iPhone apps might be the |
| pricing of the different drugs. This helps you eliminate | | | | way to go. |