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PDAStreet.com > Software Reviews > Software Review - Health Essentials Roundup Software Review - Health Essentials Roundup
By Troy Dreier
If you let it, your handheld can serve as your own personal fitness trainer, physician and dietician. It turns out that device you carry around in your pocket is good for more than just playing Bubblet and checking e-mail: it can keep you healthy, too.
Check out our list of essential health and fitness software for Palm, Windows Mobile Pocket PC & Smartphone, Blackberry, and Symbian devices. With these programs, you'll be able to improve your health and have fun while doing it.
Ascendo Fitness
Forget all those too-good-to-be-true diets: If you're going to lose weight, you'll need to eat less and exercise. Ascendo fitness helps you keep track of both of those goals.
Enter everything you eat in a day into the nutrition database to keep a daily tally of your caloric intake. You can even view a chart that shows your calories over time. Next, use the fitness tools to see how many calories you're burning with your exercise routine. Other tools help you calculate your ideal weight and your target heart rate.
CarboCounter
A lot of people mean to eat fewer carbohydrates, but actually doing so can be tough. Part of the challenge is simply remembering how many carbs were in the things you already ate and figuring out how many cabs you have left for the day. That's where this easy to use graphic heavy program enters the picture.
Simply create a daily carb budget for yourself and enter the foods you eat to see how you're doing. It even has an exercise component, so you can track how much exercise you're doing to see how many calories you're burning.
Diet & Exercise Assistant This program is like having a fulltime, live-in fitness guru, but much cheaper. Diet & Exercise Assistant is an amazingly detailed way to visualize and achieve your fitness goals. Enter information about yourself to create a weight loss program that you can monitor daily to keep track of your progress.
Enter details about your exercise program and daily diet to get colorful charts that help you see your progress. Keep a food budget to make sure you don't eat too much in a day.
You can track your weight loss on a chart or in table form. You may even keep track of body fat and blood pressure. Using this will mean entering lots of data into your handheld during the day, but for some people that's the kind of routine that helps them stick to a program.
HealthCalc
The six tools that compose HealthCalc make it easy for you to keep track of all your health concerns. Use the Body Mass Index calculator to calculate your BMI, which can tell you if extra pounds are putting you in danger.
To use the Body Fat Percentage Wizard, follow the onscreen steps as it tells you how to measure your body and enter the data; then it will give you a reliable measure of how much fat you're carrying. The Ideal Weight Wizard tells you what you should weigh, while the Heart Rate Calculator helps you achieve the optimal heart rate when you're exercising. The Basal Metabolism Calculator sets forth how many calories you're burning, while the Dessert Calculator tells you how long you'll need to exercise to burn off those sweets. Use it and you'll always choose the angel food cake over the cheesecake.
Health Master
This professional and comprehensive set of tools gives you an ideal way to keep track of important health data, like blood pressure results, weight, and metabolic rate. Create a profile and you get a place to store your important health information, like your allergies, medical history, and vaccination history.
A variety of calculators let you compute your optimal health results. For the person who likes to track their health history and needs a place to store medical information, Health Master can't be beat.
MyPersonalDiet
For the person who really wants to concentrate on improving their diet by eating less, MyPersonalDiet is an excellent tool. Enter information on yourself to create a goal-oriented program so that you always know how you're doing.
Input the foods you eat into the program on a daily basis, using its database of over 6,000 items. You'll instantly know how much more you can eat in a day, so that you don't go over your food budget, and you'll get a graphical representation of how your weight loss plan is going.
Personal Trainer
Okay, it doesn't stand over you while you're doing sit-ups and heave a medicine ball into your chest, but otherwise the program is just like having a real personal trainer at your side while you workout.
Use it to keep track of all the exercises you're doing, and watch your progress improve over the months. When you're through entering information, Personal Trainer will tell you how many calories you've burned off.
Pocket Diet
Pocket Diet is an excellent way to keep track of what you're eating, what nutrients you're getting, and much more. Use the sleep chart to track your hours of slumber, to make sure you're getting enough rest.
Set nutrition goals and, if the 6,000-plus-item database of foods doesn't have what you're looking for, add your own entries. Best of all, the program syncs with Desktop Diet, from the same company, so that you can analyze your information on your main computer.
Total Fitness
Total fitness is a total solution to keeping track of your health. The nutrition section lets you enter the foods you eat from the 5,000-item database so that you can keep track of calories, while the exercise section lets you enter data about your exercise routine so you can see how many calories you've burned.
Weight lifters will love the weight training section, something few fitness tools have, which lets you track your progress with presses and curls.
Honorable Mentions
Biorhythm
Cholesterol Tracker
DrinkDon'tDrive (Calculate blood alcohol content)
GlucoTrak
Immunizations & Vaccinations Calendar Pocket Directory
MeasureUP (Track children's growth)
Medical Abbreviations Dictionary
MyDieT
Nutritional Foods Pocket Directory
Pocket Medical Encyclopedia
Reflex (Exercise Tracker)
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