Picture spending hundreds of dollars on the newest diet pills, work out equipment, and different type of foods and not seeing any progress in your health or appearance. You feel on your own and confused. Why are you putting yourself through this? Personal trainers at the gym are too expensive and you feel as though you just do not have the time or energy anymore to continue this rough journey of getting in shape. There are more convenient and fun solutions out there. New technology for diet and nutrition might just have the answers you are looking for to reach your goals a little easier.
No one can deny that there are applications on cellphones for just about anything. It is no surprise that there is one to help with diet and exercise. One popular application is "My Fitness Pal ". This allows the user to track their health from anywhere at any time, as long as they have their cellphone with them. This makes calorie counting and food tracking easy because most people have their phone with them at all times throughout the day. The program has many different functions that helps the person to record their daily food intake, exercises, and count their calories. This is convenient for a lot of people because over four million different recipes can be found and logged into their food journal. These are at home recipes and also meals from thousands of different restaurants. Tracking all of is information is a great way to help lose weight and to be aware of how much exercise is getting done in the day. A profile public can easily be made on the application in which friends on the program can share healthy tips or recipes and encourage you after workouts. Dr. Deepak Bhatt, an interventional cardiologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, can agree that keeping track of this information has many benefits, "Restriction of calories leads to weight loss over time. Weight loss is associated with several well- known medical beneï¬ts, such as reduced risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol "all risk factors for the development of heart disease ".