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Weight Management and Fitness Related Digital Applications for IPad

Digital applications are very popular among young adults and college students.  In todays world “there is an App for that”.  There are numerous applications for IPad and smart phones that can help people with weigh control and fitness issues.  This “apps” or applications can help people track food intake, exercise and physical activities, give nutritional information and advice, count calories, provided reminders for drinking water, eat fruits and vegetables, exercise and some help you to go grocery shopping and read labels.  Many apps are free some required payment and many start free and later you need to pay for upgrades.  In my experience the free versions are good enough.  Many of these apps require your commitment and time to continue adding and acquiring the information and the benefits that they may have.  In my case I used the apps that have reminders, food scanners and show exercises routines to be follow and require less of my own input.  For people that are trying to lose weight, I recommend to use the ones that keep track of their food intake and calculate the calories consume daily.  Tracking food intake and counting calories are very powerful tools for weight management.  Keeping a food diary could help people to identify trends such as not eating fruits and vegetable, not drinking water, eating “junk food” regularly and going over their calorie intake goals.  Some of my favorites apps are Fooducate, mydietcoach, MyFitnessPal, Livestrong, officefitness and the exercises workouts (see table below).  With these apps you can set the alerts and reminders you want to receive and the digital device will let you know when its time for a certain task.  Below find a table with a short comment on some of the apps used.