Yahoo Lifestyle7 Gadgets And Apps That Make Being Healthy Easy
From apps that make deciding what's for dinner easy to gadgets that help you make it in half the time, it's never been easier to keep it healthy
Let's face it modern life can make being healthy a tricky business. Staring at screens is ruining our sleep patterns, stressful lives are wreaking havoc on our minds and bodies and increasingly delicious cocktails are making saying no to booze ever more difficult.
But fear not! For with all the troubles modernity has brought, it also ushers in some pretty awesome new health apps and gadgets that mean being healthy from here on in won't be such a trial.
Here are seven of our new faves.
The Honestly Healthy Alkaline Lifestyle App
It's finally here! The in-your-pocket version of Natasha Corrett and Vicki Edgson's alkaline diet revolution has been long awaited and is ideal for when you're on the go and forgot to check the ingredients for your alkaline dinner before you left the house.
The app splits into recipe sections: Breakfast, lunch & dinner, desserts, snacks & treats, drinks & smoothies and cleanse & weight loss with yummy alkaline-friendly recipes such as Burmese curry with chia 'poppadums', raw buckwheat porridge and the 'quickest recipe ever' for butternut squash soup.
It's also totally socially integrated so you can show off your healthy meals on Twitter and Facebook.
The HH Alkaline Lifestyle App, £2.99 for iPhones
Nutribullet
If you need a new blender (hell, even if you don't), this is one snazzy piece of kit. It's super powerful, promising to extract the ultimate amount of nutrients from your ingredients and can take on fruits, veggies and grains like a pro. Plus it has the added benefit of blending/juicing within a handy carry-away container cup.
It's also shaped like a lava-lamp (remember those?) so doesn't take up too much space.
Nutribullet from IdealWorld, £89.99
Balanced App
Always running around with no time for planning or organising your life? Don't panic. This app is an easy-to-use Godsend for the forever-busy who want to start getting things done.
It's a way of deciding what your priorities are, thinking about your lifestyle and remembering to do the things that you need to - from watching a TED talk once a month to eating five fruits and veg a day and getting some meditation in.
Pick what you want to be reminded about and how often and the app will give you gentle reminders (and big reassuring bravos) about them.
Vegetable Spiraliser
Pasta addict? Introducing your low-carb lifesaver. This little gadget transforms all sorts of healthy veg into pasta-esque strips, which will satisfy your craving while keeping your carb consumption down. And as well as adding to your five-a-day count, it's great fun to use. A bit like your Play-doh days.
Spiralite Vegetable Spiralizer, £29.95
Clean & Green Eating App
This is a particular favourite for sorting out midweek dinners, getting inspiration for snacks and changing up your breakfast for something healthy but a bit more exciting than the same-old-same-old.
It has a shopping list function that allows you to tap a button on every recipe to send the ingredients to a separate list (complete with amounts) for easy reading in the shop and the selection of recipes combine simple low-effort with more extravagant ideas for weekends. And the snack ideas are totes delish.
Period Tracker
One for the ladies, obvs, this is the easiest way we've found to keep track of your cycle. At its simplest, all you do is hit 'period started' and 'period finished' and it will keep track and tot up when your next period is due. It will also track your fertile periods and when you ovulate.
Or you can go a bit further and input things like your mood, flow and even when you had sex, which is always good to know.
bac< Posture Stand
We love our devices but they're doing us some serious harm, particularly in the posture steaks, leading us to wonder if there will come a time when we evolve to be hunched over with a giant forefinger. To combat this, try propping up your laptops, eReaders and tablets on an egonomically-designed stand that gives you hands free, comfortable reading, viewing and swiping.
It stores flat and is easy to put up so there's no excuse for craning over your iPad now.
7Min Workout
Bringing HIIT to your home, this nifty app is full of workouts you can do in the spare minutes you have, without having to head to the gym.
You can set your fitness level to offer you appropriate workouts and keep a track of your progress. There's also a function to say which exercises you like and don't and a workout reminder if you're just as bad at running on the spot as you are going to the gym.
7Min Workout from Johnson & Johnson, Free
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