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Track Calories, Weight,
Exercise, and More
The Tap & Track app by nanobitsoftware.com offers several features for clients and patients who want to track calories consumed and burned, carbs, protein, fat, fiber, sodium, and more. The app provides the largest offline food database of any iPhone calorie counter, featuring 500,000 foods, and even allows individuals to set diet plans and weight-loss goals. Learn more »
Handheld Yoga Workout
Pocket Yoga by Rainfrog, LLC enables clients to practice yoga at their own pace, giving them the choice of selecting three different practices and difficulty levels, and three different lengths of time for their workouts for a total of 27 distinct yoga sessions. They can listen to soothing or hip-hop music during sessions.
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Dietitian With a Personal Touch
This New York Times article profiles dietitian and book author Tanya Zuckerbrot, who has clientele who pay her $10,000 a pop to help them eat healthfully and lose weight.
Many Moms Start Babies on Solid Foods Too Soon
A study recently published in Pediatrics indicates some mothers begin feeding their babies solid foods too soon, according to this USA Today article. |
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Community Approach Effective in Fight Against Diabetes
New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that a diabetes prevention program led by community health workers is effective at reducing blood glucose and potentially reducing diabetes over the long term.
This is the largest program to successfully replicate the results achieved by the Diabetes Prevention Project, a research study led by the National Institutes of Health and supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which demonstrated several years ago that lifestyle weight-loss interventions can reduce the incidence of diabetes by 58%. The study recently was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
“We wanted to take this intervention out to people in the community rather than having them have to come to us in a clinical setting,” says Jeff Katula, PhD, the study’s lead author who’s an assistant professor of health and exercise sciences at Wake Forest University and joint assistant professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest Baptist. “Given the high prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome and risk of diabetes, our study shows we can provide an effective program in a community setting.”
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