Smart Phone Applications for Nutrition and Exercise

Smart Phone Applications for Nutrition and Exercise

All apps featured in this handout are free

Name

My Fitness Pal

Spark Recipes

eaTipster Blood Sugar Tracker

Glucose Buddy

Gluten Free Recipes 1000

Description

Mobile App

Enter in your height, weight, activity level, and your goal weight to get a personalized calorie prescription, then track your food intake and exercise. View graphs to track your progress toward goals. Want to find out how healthy your recipes are? Enter the ingredients into the recipe calculator and it will give you the nutrition information for your recipe. You can also browse recipes entered by other users. Receive daily tips on eating healthy, developed by registered dietitians. This app is great for people with diabetes for tracking blood sugars, medications, blood pressure, food intake, and physical activity. This app has lots of extra features including customizable graphs, and push notification reminders. By syncing with their website you can access even more features such as doctor printouts and the hemoglobin a1c estimator. Search among approximately 1,000 gluten free recipes. Users can search for recipes by keyword or ingredient,

"MyFitnessPal"

"spark recipes"

"eaTipster" "Blood Sugar Tracker" "Glucose Buddy"

"Gluten Free Recipes 1000"

Website





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Compatibility

iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows phone

iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, or Android

iPhone, iPad, iPod touch iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android

iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

Android

Find Me Gluten Free Map My Run Sworkit All Recipes

Ask Karen

save their favorites, and share recipes

with others via text or email.

This app allows you to search for

"Find me Gluten

nearby restaurants. You can easily

Free"

view gluten free menus and read

reviews by other gluten-free users.

The app also includes lists of gluten-

free products and recipes.

Track and record your physical activity iMapMyRun

including duration, distance traveled, iMapMyRide

calories burned and more using your iMapMyWalk(iPhone

built-in GPS.

only)

Sworkit provides customizable

S"Sworkit"

workouts that you can do at home

without any equipment.

Search from thousands of recipes.

enter "AllRecipes"

Browse categories such as low-

and choose from:

calorie, low-fat, gluten free, etc. Save dinner spinner, video

your favorites to your recipe box.

cookbook, or kitchen

*The recipes within the various health- inspiration (iPad only)

related categories are not necessarily

chosen by nutrition experts but they

do typically provide the nutrition

information for you to evaluate for

yourself.

Find answers to all your food safety "Ask Karen"

questions such as: "how long can I

store fish?" This app was developed

by the US Department of Agriculture

findmeglutenfree.c om

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/Food_Safety_Education/ Ask_Karen/index.asp

iPhone and android

iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android iPhone and iPad

iPhone, Kindle fire, iPad, Windows 8

iPhone, iPad, or Android

**Some of these apps have discussion forums, please keep in mind that these are not always monitored by health experts and may not be a reliable source of information. If you do not have a smart phone, many of these apps have websites with similar functions.

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