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Health on the Go: Four Must-Have Health and Fitness iPad Apps

Thanks to the rise of mobile devices and applications, almost everything you need is now accessible in just a few clicks. From shopping to traveling and working, there’s always an app that you can use to assist you in just about everything you do. Even staying fit and healthy and keeping track of your diet is now much easier with the countless health and fitness apps available for mobile devices. For the health-conscious, you can just download these apps on your iPad to keep you fit even when you’re always on the go. Here are five health and fitness iPad apps worth downloading:        Fitness Class If you’re a gym rat, then the Fitness App for iPad is definitely a must have. The app features over 475 full-length workout videos, which you can access, stream, or download even without an Internet connection. The app also enables you to calculate the estimated number of calories burned per class, so you can easily monitor your progress. With the Fitness App, you c...

CALCMENU: Importance of Understanding Food Labels

Some consumers often recognize the importance of reading nutritional labels too lightly, as most think that only health professionals and nutrition experts would actually benefit from them. Nutritional information is found on prepackaged foods including nutritional values, allergens, expiration date, and the origins of food items. According to an article by Nancy Clarke (Feb. 12, 2011, LIVINGSTRONG.COM) , reading nutrition labels helps manage health conditions, balance nutritional levels, maintain a healthy weight and avoid chronic diseases. These labels help compare the nutritional values of a certain food item to another product as well as to inform the allergic consumers on the nutrient contents which may contain allergens as ingredients or as traces. Labels also provide consumers useful information on food restrictions such as religious, culture, and dietary concerns. In CALCMENU, not only does it provide reliable and adequate nutrition analysis data for the growing health-cons...