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You just have to look around town to see that personal fitness has become one of the boom industries of the 21st Century. Every time you turn your head there seems to be yet another fitness centre opening up where all the old DVD stores used to be. It's a sign of the times. What’s more, every second person you meet seems to be a personal trainer. Mind you, if you wanna sign up with one, you'll find them pretty expensive. There is however, a much cheaper way to get all the benefits that a personal trainer offers without having to take out a second mortgage on the house.  More

There's an old adage that says something along the lines of 'babies don't come with a users manual' but here's an app that goes some way to defying that. iBaby is a new free baby health monitoring application that helps parents keep track of their baby's progress from conception to birth (and beyond.) Starting when you configure and enter your due date, this customizable application will keep you constantly updated as to where things stand and how long it will be until your baby is born. It also delivers week-by-week baby development information and a progress development bar so you can ...  More

Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal-derived products with an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of sentient animals. Dietary vegans (or strict vegetarians) refrain from consuming all animal related products. This means meat, fish, chicken, eggs, dairy products and all other animal-derived substances. A trip to the supermarket however, often turns into a nightmare for vegans, because of the often confusing ingredient labeling on many of the items. Vegan Scanner lets you scan the item's barcode with your iOS or Android's camera and get ...  More

This is not a review like the ones that we usually feature here. It's not going to solve your business conundrums and it's not an addictive and fun game that'll keep you amused for a few hours. Child Harm Risk Assessment is a health and wellbeing application for Android that was put together by noted Australian mental health professional Peter Kohleis with the object of laying down all the information needed when assessing the mental health of young people. It offers an easy-to-use, evidence informed clinical assessment of a young person's state of mind and meets all the requirements of ...  More

There has been plenty of rubbish talked about the use of marijuana over the years. While it has been used medicinally for centuries to help relieve stress and to stimulating the appetite the arguments about legalizing the herb have got a bit mixed up with the anti smoking lobby. Which is fair enough. But it's not the cannabis that's bad for you - it's the 111 toxins that are unleashed on your body when you light it up that are the things that are going to cause you damage. Vape Nation is a health and fitness application centered around the business of cannabis vaporizers. The 'Vape' gives ...  More

While our health has generally changed for the better over the decades with better exercise and medications there is one area of our lives that seems to have actually worsened over the same period. Sleeping problems! I don't think I've ever had so many friends complain about poor sleeping habits than over the last ten years or so. Many things have been tried to combat this including prescription drugs as well as dietary advice and better exercise and there have even been a number of apps to try to help us relax at the end of our hectic days. Quite a few have proven fairly successful while ...  More

One of the faster moving health trends over the last year or so has been the ascendence of the healthy vegetarian smoothie. I've lost count of the amount of refrigerators I've looked into recently that are filled with jam jars filled with different colored juices. Green Smoothies is a beautiful looking health and wellness application for iOS that features a great collection of healthy smoothie recipes put together by noted raw food chef and holistic wellness coach Laura Glucina. Green Smoothies is a very modern looking, slick and easy to use app that delivers all the facts and science to ...  More

With the sun blazing down furiously over many parts of the world right now it may be the right time to think about protecting your skin from its harshness. Skin cancers or Melanomas are responsible for more deaths than any other cancers worldwide these days so it is vitally important that we pay particular attention to skin protection. The old way, of course, would be the old Slip, Slop, Slap idea but, with the introduction of the SPF or sun protection factor, things have got a bit more technical. Be Skin Smart is a totally personalized new South African health and lifestyle application ...  More

Many of us dedicated to getting our fitness back on schedule tend to go down one of two tracks these days. We either go the whole hog and hire a personal trainer to guide us back to a fitness regime we can handle or we invest in an app so that we can monitor our fitness ourselves. The only trouble there is that the cost of a personal trainer is pretty high and most apps tend to take a 'one size fits all' approach and assume everyone is at the same level of fitness to begin with. truTrainer combines those two different approaches by having real live personal trainers available on your very ...  More

Thankfully, most of us have absolutely no idea of the often devastating effects of stress, panic attacks and poor sleeping patterns. Very often, the three go together. While we certainly don't trivialize stress there is a definite lack of understanding amongst the reneral public. For those that do suffer there are many methods of dealing with it that cover the whole gamut of healing methods that runs from everything from meditation to heavy drugs. Calm Down Now is a new healthcare application for iOS that attempts a much simpler remedy for stress relief and similar issues. Developed and ...  More