Mobile Apps and the Path of Wellness
Today the healthcare market is witnessing a steady flow of mobile apps thanks to innovations in software apps and the change in the whole way of looking at problems and solutions. Acceptability of products like smart phones, tablet computers and personal digital assistants continue to encourage entry of more and more complex mobile apps into the healthcare market.
World of Mobile Apps
The developers are using mobile platforms to deliver a wide range of useful health-related apps. iPhones, Androids, cloud computing and many other mobile devices from developers have successfully penetrated into the healthcare field in a short span of time, giving patient wellness the extra push. Evolving mobile healthcare technologies provide consumers with real-time care. Physicians now agree that mobile health practices are a better way for providing improved patient care.
Apple came out with a third generation iPad last month. It has several features that appeal to the medical community. The increased graphics capability and camera resolution combined with the high speed internet, opens up a new path for several applications in telemedicine and m-Health in general. The high resolution ‘retina display’ gives a better view of images to radiologists. This model with an improved HD screen would set the stage for several clinical uses, argue some experts. iPads have gained popularity in medical academics too.
Many hospitals and clinics are on the path of adopting e-health apps today. Take for example the Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Florida and Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston, where iPhones are widely used. For “anywhere anytime computing”, they find iPhone as the best platform for running applications of their choice. The Texas Health Resources, a healthcare provider with 24 hospitals has half-a-dozen smart phone and tablet apps running on iOS and Android.
“Non-phone” Wellness Apps
It looks like time has arrived for the “no-phone” wireless wellness devices. AT&T has recently launched a child tracking device and a personal monitoring device meant for senior citizens besides a GPS locator paving the way for further innovations in tracking technology. The company is already selling the “BioHarness” a physiological monitor that records heart rate and other related data. It plans to sell these tracking devices embedded in clothes and provide wireless connectivity needed to push the gathered data to the web and smart phones. It has also identified a market with senior citizens, particularly those who wish to remain in their homes. It hopes that once these apps start feeding healthcare providers with updated information without any interruption, the huge population – young and old, healthy and chronically ill, would seek their conditions to be monitored. According to company officials, this would perk up the demand for these new devices.
According to a study by the Boston Consulting Group and Telenor Group, with Mobile Healthcare cost of care for the elderly would go down by 25% and that it would positively influence the economic growth of nations and promise better life for individuals. A 2011 m-Health Report projection show the number of people using Mobile Health Apps touching 500 million. That means for the next two years the health care market is going to keep us engrossed.
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Chiropractor Helps Improve Your Health and Wellness
Many people associate chiropractors to treatments for physical injuries. Yes, they help treat such problems using alternative techniques. However, chiropractic doctors can give more than that – they help for one’s holistic development.
When we say holistic development it covers your whole total being- the cognitive, the affective, and the psychomotor. A chiropractor helps in promoting health and wellness.
So, what are the strategies they use? Chiropractors can help by addressing the six primary interferences to health, which include the following:
The structural interferences – these pertain to an imbalance in the body’s nervous system, muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, or connective tissue. Structural interferences are a common reason why people go to chiropractic clinics.
Nutritional interferences – chiropractor helps patients improve their poor diet and lifestyle and or malnutrition. This is achieved through education on targeted nutrients to correct underlying chemical imbalances in the body.
Emotional imbalance – in a more common terms, this pertains to ‘stress’ and is commonly experienced my many. Patients are taught the importance of addressing this particular issue as this may have serious and even life-threatening impact to one’s overall health. Chiropractors offer treatments that help de-stress the reactions that can cause physical illnesses.
Toxic imbalances – everyday people are exposed to toxic substances, which can cause damage to one’s physical being. Chiropractor emphasizes proper detoxification as there are body ‘pollutants’ that are not properly detoxified by body’s detox organs like the kidneys and liver. Toxicity is very common but rarely detected but going to health professionals like a chiropractor can help.
Allergies and sensitivities – are common problems that can cause serious and unexpected symptoms such as mood disorders, joint swelling, digestive troubles, and many other problems not often associated with more traditional understandings of allergies.
Electromagnetic interferences – according to experts, we are always bombarded with electromagnetic forces coming from appliances, microwaves, cell phones, computers, power lines – things that may have unexpected and harmful consequences to one’s health. Experts say that some individuals are extremely reactive to these forces and because our brains and nervous systems are electrical systems in nature, evidence continues to show that this interference is dangerous.
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Wellness & The Life Span of Vegetarians
Many on the path of wellness, choose vegetarianism to live a lifestyle that has proven benefits for body and earth. Death rates for vegetarians are higher than all-cause death rates for people who eat mixed diets, a poor comparison because we really want information that compares vegetarians, people eating mixed diets, and people relying primarily on animal products.
The data on people eating mixed diets, including some amount of meat, shed no light on the health effects of eating predominately animal products. Health problems arising in those eating mixed diets, the “super-market diet” are unilaterally blamed on its meat component when, in fact the blame must fall upon those components from the fruit, vegetable, and grain families: the plant kingdom versus the animal kingdom.
Vegetarians do not live longer than meat-eaters (no data on pure meat-eaters); in fact, the all-cause death rates of vegetarian women exceed those of non-vegetarian women.
Although soy products have become the “health food darling” of the day, more and more evidence indicates that hyper-processed soy foods are not healthful. Soybeans also have high phyto-estrogen content, and some investigators have estimated that a child receiving a soy formula ingests the hormonal equivalent of five birth control pills a day.
Vegetarians trot out all kinds of nonsense to support the vegetarian lifestyle: Human beings possess grinding teeth similar to those of plant-eating animals, an evolutionary signal of their special adaptation to plant foods. Vegetarians observe that human beings have longer intestines than most typical carnivores, a fact they use to support the notion that the human body is suited for vegetarianism. They also claim that eating animal flesh causes violent, aggressive behavior in humans. We’ve learned earlier, in a discussion of Dr. Harris’s work, that these claims all arose from the ancient authority of religious sanctions designed to strengthen the prohibition against eating meat.
Toxic overload is another claim made by vegetarians to discourage meat eating. Toxins, however, are a part of the general food supply, as much a part of the vegetarian’s fare as of the meat eater’s fare. The best protection against toxins is a strong filtration system, the liver and the kidneys. A moderate-protein, high-animal fat intake is absolutely essential to strengthening the function of these organs, whereas, in contrast, a high-carbohydrate diet has been shown to decrease the ability of the liver to detoxify chemicals.
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