Healthy Bytes

Freeware muscle for the health conscious.

May be you know this, maybe you don’t. Our spinal cord is less then two feet in length and has diameter of a finger, but contains over 10 billion nerve cells. Our nose can detect 50,000 different smells and our eyes can detect more than 10,000,000 different colors. Our stomach produces a new lining every 3 days to avoid digesting itself in its own acid--acid that is strong enough to dissolve razorblades! Our sneeze can exceed 100 mph; our eye muscles can contract in less than 1/100th of a second; our thighbones are stronger than concrete; and our brain cells can hold 5 times more information than Encyclopedia Britannica… With 100 trillion cells, 35 million digestive glands, 5 million hair follicles, and 60,000 miles of blood vessels, the human body is an amazingly complex creation.

To mind, monitor and minister this astounding formulation of organs, tissues, bones and multicellular eukaryote that we are made up of, here is a smart little set of freeware apps for the health conscious.

Blood Pressure Tracker
www.soundtells.com
Designed in accordance with American Heart Association guidelines, this uncomplicated programme allows you to maintain an accurate record of your blood pressure levels. The program automatically saves systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, and time of measurement and provides all historical data. Functions include the ability to add comments, data export, and compatibility and syncing with mobile devices.

Exertrack
www.exertrack.com
This exercise performance management system allows you to create your exercise sets and schedules, update and modify these routines, and track your progress. It connects to the Exertrack Network to update your information, periodically analyse your performance, and get you advice on how and when to change and tweak your training to achieve optimum results.

First Aid Basics
www.healthp.info
A nifty little programme that provides basic information on first aid—from CPR, infarctions, pains, bites, stings, fractures, disjoints, to hypothermia and frostbites. There is a section on bandages, plasters, medicines and what to stock in a first aid kit. A segment on prevention details how to avoid injuries and infections. A video presentation on how to perform CPR and a glossary of common terms and links to useful websites is also included.

Food File
www.foodfileonline.com
This is actually an online food database and calorie counter. The nutritional information here has been compiled by the US Department of Agriculture, Nutrient Data Laboratory. Select a food; the proportion of fats, proteins and carbohydrates it contains are displayed, along with total calories and more detailed nutritional information. Also available: Food facts for people following low fat, low carb (Atkins/South Beach) or low sodium diets.

Glucose Tracker
www.soundtells.com
An essential one for sugar daddies who need to keep track of their glucose levels regularly. Along with the glucose level the proggie automatically saves the relationship to your meal and time of measurement. The tracker can prove to be an excellent tool for longitudinal trends analysis of glucose levels in the long term and associated drug dosage adjustments.

KiloCalc
http://kilocalc.inobe.qarchive.org
If you are on a food regimen, you need to count your calories constantly. KiloCalc connects you to multiple food databases on the Internet and helps you build and maintain a large, precise and complete nutritional database for yourself and your family. You can find and add nutritional values of food items as you please. A slider let’s you adjust food weight and recalculate nutritional values.

Recipe Manager
www.nutritionanalyser.com/recipe_manager/recipe_manager.htm
This helps you organise your recipes and food and assists in analyzing nutritional values of your food, recipes and meals. It contains a 6,000 ingredient database for customisation of recipes and over 30 nutrient (micronutrients, minerals and vitamins) values for analysis. No butter chickan or vada paus of course.

Recipes 3000
www.yourfamilysoftware.com
Another one for the belly, though nothing really scrumptious. Here you can browse, print and search some 5,500 free recipes along and add and edit your own creations. You can create an unlimited number of recipe books and also import concoctions you find on the Net.

The Runner's Log
www3.telus.net/public/whumeniu
Fond of jogging? Try raising the bar for your lower limbs further with an easy to use running log keeper like this one that provides a quick overview of your running. Highlights include multiple runs per day, up to five weeks at a glance of your runs, training schedules, distance (in km as well as miles) and shoe-usage tracking.

Weight Tracker
www.soundtells.com
If you need to chart you weight loss/gain stats, download this. With oversized numbers for easy data entry, it displays the average and maximum weights day by day. Comments (like sickness etc.) can be easily entered via dropdown. All data can be exported to a text file or CSV file (comma delimited text file) for mailing, backup, archival, and editing.