We all can use some help when it comes to keeping us in line with our health and fitness goals. How did we live without smart phones and apps to get us through?! Check out these five easy and super helpful health, food and nutrition apps you gotta download today!
- FOODUCATE
Learn what is in your food, track the quality not just quantity of your calories, monitor your fitness goals and get motivated! Fooducate features popular diet plans including: low carb, paleo and also provides GMO warnings along with weekly health and diet tips. Avoiding gluten? Not a problem, Fooducate’s premium feature helps to uncover gluten and other allergens hiding in your food and allows you to choose allergen free alternatives. This app really tracks what you are eating!
- QUICK + EASY RECIPES FROM SPARK PEOPLE
The name says it all, quick and easy access to simple recipes at any time. Get access to healthy meals on your table in minutes provided by top- rated recipes for breakfasts, salads, dinners, easy soups and balanced sweet treats. All of the recipes call for simple and nutritious ingredients to help you cook healthfully and clean. Best part is these quick recipes can all be ready in under 30 minutes or less! Other perks include recipe ratings and nutritional breakdown of every recipe including calories, fat, carbs and protein. Love this app!
- MY FITNESS PAL
The holy grail of free fitness apps. Why? The fastest and easiest-to-use calorie counter for iOS, with the largest food database by far (over 5,000,000 foods) and amazingly fast and easy food and exercise entry. With just 5 minutes per day you can view and track your diet and exercise. My Fitness Pal is so easy to log your foods because it remembers your favorites and you can add multiple foods at once. Huge perk is the My Fitness Pal connects with over 50 other devices including Fitbit and Apple Health.For all the meal prep cooks out there, the recipe importer lets you add your favorite recipes from the web to the app in one tap. Other perks include a built in step tracker and barcode scanner and chart graphs to view how far you have come.
- (NOT) RECIPES BY FOOD 52
Foodies rejoice because this app is for us! Founded in 2009 by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, home cooks who formerly worked for The New York Times, (Not)Recipes for iOS is a new way to find—and share—cooking ideas and inspiration using photos. (Not)Recipes brings you into a community of home cooks and their kitchens to see how they can eat well on the daily through real time photos and helpful descriptions. You won’t find any recipes here, but you will find descriptions on how the meal was made. Almost like Instagram just for food posts but with positivity and feedback from a like-minded community.
- MY WATER BALANCE
Absolutely love this app – great display and functionality with easy options for adding other items of fluid intake, including water, juice, beer and wine.From flushing out toxins to digestion, water is essential to good health. Fluid needs vary from on individual and lifestyle. My Water Balance helps to determine your water requirement, provides reminders and motivational awards and most importantly it is EASY. Open the app, add your water or fluid intake and continue on with your day!
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