Give Health for the Holidays with iPhone Applications

With Black Friday sales well underway, big companies like Apple don’t need any more incentive to sell more products but with the coveted iPhone in record sales and popularity over the last few years, health options aren’t going to be hard to come by within the touch screen technology. Many health applications are able to be purchased for phones like the iPhone in the hopes that not just sales goals will be reached but those of fitness, strength, and overall general wellbeing.

While popular online supplements such as the gem-swapping game Bejeweled, SparkNotes for essay help, and an easy music recording device that can recognize and download any song, this generation’s phones aren’t just for calling anymore. Boredom takes a backseat to anyone who has a sleek, shiny, no-button phone that fits in your pocket and looks like a flat screen television without the wires.

These applications usually charge about a couple dollars to download and are all wonderful ways to keep your health in check.

The BreathPacer from Larva Labs teaches you how to pace breathing with audio and visual stimulation for twenty minutes a day in order to prove the benefits hundreds of studies have shown that slower breathing makes for better health, one of popular alternative doctor, Andrew Weil’s favorite techniques.

FitSync is the closest thing to a personal trainer without the large expense and all the yelling. Downloadable exercise programs track your progress and you can log your workout routine on your phone along with compare your results to the rest of the country if you choose. For the ultimate motivation take the FitSync Challenge and push your fitness goals against friends, family or even strangers across the street or across the globe.

Food Additives is the application you will be happy to take with you to the grocery store. Instead of trying to deep web research those multiple-syllabic chemical names in your food that you can’t spell or even think of pronouncing correctly. Giving you the ability to access 450+ additives in the food you eat, can show you whether or not they could be potentially harmful so you can avoid certain additives if possible. This is perfect for anyone who has food related allergies, special restrictive diets, or religious beliefs that prevent the consumption of certain foods and food groups.

WeightDate Track your holiday meal intake by using simple charts and graphs to monitor your weight gain or loss. WeightDate uses your average weight and plots it along a color graph according to the plan you execute in order to find a goal that’s right for your body. An easy line chart shows your progress immediately each day and you can track the weight in any unit.

iQuit is the conscience on your shoulder, but safely stowed away on your handheld portable device. iQuit focuses on the fact that the idea to quit smoking is your choice and yours alone. By encouraging smokers to stay busy, iQuit keeps the cigarette out of the hand and the smoke out of everyone’s lungs.

To be used with multiple phone carriers and types of smart phones (besides just the dominating iPhone, different websites have many options for others like SideKick phones and the BlackBerry), there are many more applications like the ones mentioned above so if you’re stretching for that new fun gadget as a holiday gift for the all-in-one phone user in your family, workplace, or group of friends, consider any number of helpful applications they might enjoy.