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The Beddit Sleep Monitor is for all people who struggle with getting a good nights sleep. You simply apply it to your mattress under your sheet, you won’t feel it because it’s so thin. You download the app and then it tells you information such as total sleep time and when the person falls asleep and wakes up. This monitor also shows how well your sleeping and your heart rate while you’re…

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge promoted awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The challenge is to pour ice water over your head within 24 hours of being challenged or donate $50 towards ALS research. This became an extremely popular trend on social media, everyone tagged their friends to challenge them, this spread the cause very quickly and very widely. Soon movie stars and role…

Technology is ever advancing, now it is advancing towards healthy outcomes. Technology has a huge impact on health, this used to be a bad impact causing kids to lead sedentary lifestyles in front of their game systems all day. Now we are starting to associate technology with the positives it brings to health, such as how the Wii got kids to incorporate the same games they were playing sitting on…

Gaming For Health Review

Stephen Yang does an overview of interactive games and how they can be fun and motivating to get people up and moving. They are crucial to our health as a teenage population, there’s becoming so many problems with diabetes and obesity in our younger generations now. So many kids are becoming sedentary, caused by gaming consoles that require no movement. He talks about using games as a way to make…

Social Marketing and Public Health Review

“Influence may be the highest level of human skill” Social marketing is an approach that uses commercial marketing techniques to influence people, it promotes behavior change in targeted groups of individuals. Health promotion aims to improve health and reduce inequalities, it focuses on long term success, and encourages people to take action. Social Media is constantly evolving, its a media…

The AlterG treadmill is an amazing exercise breakthrough that manipulates gravity while you run/walk on the treadmill. Your lower body is strapped into a chamber, the chamber lowers the air pressure making you even lighter than you actually are, that lifts you while you exercise to help take weight off of your lower body for if you have some type of injury or are trying to recover from and injury…

There are so many new advances in technology these days. We have so many devices that our lives revolve around and this could be impacting our lives in good or bad ways. There are so many devices coming out that have to do with health, whether its tracking your daily steps or heart rate or even telling you which exercises to do at the palm of your hand at the gym. One of the newer inventions is…