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Technology is gearing adult to give us control of a health.  I recently attended a 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and we was positively blown divided by record that could have a outrageous impact on a destiny of medical in a United States. Before we share some of my favorites, let me explain because this record is so important.

I’ve been observant for a prolonged time that a medical complement is obese.  It’s fat and delayed and can’t accomplish what we need it to do, only like many of us who have given adult shortcoming for a possess bodies. You only have to demeanour during a statistics for diabetes in a U.S. to see a border of a problem.  We know a series of cases of adult diabetes is on a rise, and we know being overweight is a poignant means of that increase. Out of a sum $2.6 trillion spent on medical in 2010, 20 percent of costs are associated to diabetes – that adds adult to $526 billion.

Technology has not been a crony when it comes to staying fit. We lay in front of a TV or mechanism while we benefit weight and remove flesh tone, and afterwards we protest about not carrying a medical we need. we found out during a CES only how many innovative people are focused on regulating a problems with a medical complement by putting control behind into a hands of individuals. Here are some of my favorite inclination from a Digital Health and Fitness area during CES:

• BodyMedia® FIT

This BodyMedia® FIT device is described as an “on-body monitoring system” and includes an armband that marks your activity turn and how good you’re sleeping. It interfaces with both a website and downloadable app, that includes a calorie guard to assistance we stay on track. It even lets we know if we need time on a treadmill or an dusk break to turn out your day.  

• IbitzTM PowerKey and Unity

GeoPalz® produces both adult and kid-friendly versions of this device, that marks a user’s activity level.  The indicate is to get a whole family adult and moving.  Exercising earns keys that clear entrance to games and other devices.  Ibitz apps can lane family aptness including steps, calories and most more.  For kids, they supplement an app-based electronic “pet.”  The some-more active a kids are, a some-more appetite and energy their pet has. The idea is to find new, effective forms of motivation. 

• HAPIFork

I adore a out-of-the-box meditative on this one.  HAPIFork is a cooking flare that helps we learn to eat some-more slowly.  Eating too quick can lead to overeating.  So a HAPIFork marks “fork servings” and how most time we spend nipping between bites. If we eat too fast, a flare vibrates and lights adult to remind we to delayed down.  

These are only a few from a hundreds of new ideas underneath development. Personal tracking inclination are positioned to be a outrageous concentration for a future, such as Fitbit’s FlexTM tracker and Withings all-in-one physique monitoring lavatory scale. As a health advocate, we adore enlivening people to demeanour during their possess behaviors and now a record is accessible to help. Some of these inclination and apps even yield motivational coaching and tips to urge your progress.  

It’s all about assisting people make improved decisions to urge their possess health. And now, we won’t have to wait for something to go wrong before we get treatment.  With this turn of personal tracking, people can keep watch over their possess health trends to conduct off destiny illness.  

I am vehement during a intensity we have in front of us.  But we also wish it won’t be a flitting fad.   This new record can give us a structure to urge a fortify for a good of a possess health and that of a families.  These new inventions will assistance put control over a health behind on a shoulders, or belt clips or wrists of any one of us – right where it belongs.

Michelle King Robson (pronounced robe-son) is one of a nation’s heading women’s health and wellness advocates. She is a Founder, Chairperson and CEO of EmpowHER, one of a fastest-growing and largest amicable health companies dedicated exclusively to women’s health and wellness.  In 2011 EmpowHER reached some-more than 60 million women onsite and by syndication expects to strech some-more than 250 million in 2012.