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Healthy Living Links

• Child Injury Prevention (CDC)

Healthy Living Apps

iPhone / iPad

• CDC - The free CDC iPad App serves up important information from CDC's website tailored to meet the needs of iPad users.
• Count the Kicks - This app makes it simple to track your baby's normal movement pattern with the touch of your finger. It's daily text feature will even remind you when it's time to start counting. If you notice a change in your baby's regular movement pattern, call your healthcare provider right away
• Fitness Tips - This app in entirely free! So be sure to check it out now! Learn about proper diet and exercise, cardio, muscle building, weight lifting, toning exercise, food, and nutrition. Get back your health and bring back your beauty!
• Health Facts - This cool free app gives you thousands of interesting health facts, smart health tips, and relevant medical statistics. Learn useful facts on diet, exercise, food, nutrition, beauty, drugs, men's health, women's health, and much more!
• MyFitnessPal - Lose weight with MyFitnessPal, the fastest and easiest to use calorie counter. With the largest food database of any calorie counter (over 1.1 million foods), and amazingly fast food and exercise entry, we’ll help you take those extra pounds off! There is no better diet app - period.
• Nutrition Tips - This amazing free app gives you hundreds of interesting and useful nutrition tips, diet and weight loss tips, and nutritional health facts! Referenced from Nutrition.gov, USDA.gov, and the Food and Nutrition Information Center, some of the most prominent leaders in food and human nutrition information!Find a wealth of useful and practical nutritional tips and information to help you and your family have a safe and healthy diet.
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Android

• CardioTrainer - CardioTrainer is a free application for Android smartphones that lets you track and record all of your fitness activity.
• Count the Kicks -  This app makes it simple to track your baby's normal movement pattern with the touch of your finger. It's daily text feature will even remind you when it's time to start counting. If you notice a change in your baby's regular movement pattern, call your healthcare provider right away.
• MyFitnessPal - Lose weight with MyFitnessPal, the fastest and easiest to use calorie counter. With the largest food database of any calorie counter (over 1.1 million foods), and amazingly fast food and exercise entry, we’ll help you take those extra pounds off! There is no better diet app - period.
• Stop Smoking - Are you smoking? Do you want to quit completely? This app will help. This app includes numerous tips for your motivation, a database to record each smoked cigarette, statistics that show your tobacco usage and your saved money, and allows you to set your personal quit date. Stop smoking today - it will greatly improve your life!

American Public Health Association

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