Tag Archives: Healthy Living

Overweight is far from a mere aesthetic issue. It is a genuine hazard to your health, and any measure that you could take in order to slim down is a measure that you should take without thinking twice…. Read More…

Does exercise have to mean jogging, sweat and tears? Not according to Philips, whose DirectLife personal fitness programme aims to help people adopt a more active lifestyle by monitoring and motivating them in their daily activities. Like Fitbit which we covered in October, DirectLife is based around a wearable device that uses a 3D digital accelerometer to track a person’s movements. The data is uploaded via USB to a personal web-page, where it’s matched against daily targets, long-term goals, and (optionally) other users.M…. Read More…

The Optimism Apps website can be reached at www.findingoptimism.com, and it plays host to a set of resources that aim to let anybody improve his mental health by applying what the site terms an “action plan”. This action plan involves using the provided apps in order to track your mental health as days go by while clearly visualizing what is working and what is bringing you down. In this way, you can have an understanding of which ones are the causes (and the effects) of your happiness. That knowledge would theoretically let you focus only on what would lead you to lasting wellness…. Read More…

This is a simple service that you can use in order to send a healthcare question and receive the right answer with a link to find detailed information right away… Read More…

Whenever I go on a diet it follows a familiar pattern. I tend to venture cautiously into a health shop, get scared off by hardcore packs of dried bananas, and then scuttle down the road to get some Haribo to help my recovery. But a new UK company called Graze means I can not use this as an excuse anymore. Graze sends perfect snack-sized nutritious edibles direct to you, so there really are no more excuses…. Read More…

Few would dispute the benefits of eating locally grown food, both for the environment and for human health. Access is the challenge, which is why we’ve seen such goods sold in vending machines, delivered by bicycle and packed in five-dollar bags for commuters. The latest spotting? Local Dirt, a Wisconsin-based site that connects buyers and sellers of locally grown food nationwide…. Read More…

Fitness enthusiasts can already use their cell phones and the web to keep track of their progress toward their health goals, but typically such applications track a limited set of data or rely on accurate self-reporting. Fitbit, on the other hand, is a small device the user can wear around the clock for continuous, automatic and comprehensive fitness reporting…. Read More…