A new trend is sweeping the country relating to how people are keeping up with their daily health routines and keeping track of their overall progress during specified period of time. This new approach is being called health lifelogging and is quickly gaining popularity among the health-conscious citizens across the country.
Some notable technology heavyweights have put in significant investments into this growing movement and there are now some impressive products available in the market for monitoring everything from the number of steps to take each day to the amount of calories you burn while sleeping. Advocates of this type of technology say that this is a modern and automated way of "self-tracking for self-improvement."
There are certainly more than enough gadgets in the market today to handle the demands of each individual's health lifelogging activities. There is the Fitbit activity tracker that can automatically count the number of steps the user takes during the day, the amount of calories that he has burned, and even the movements he makes during sleep. A phone application called the Sleepbot can record sleeping activity, while the Cue kit can give you an indication of your body's vitamin levels daily. There are also compact gadgets that can be used to monitor an individual's heart rate and oxygen levels.
For people who want to keep photographic memories of each day, wearable cameras are now available to automatically take pictures during a specified time interval-the user can set it to capture images every few seconds or minutes-all hands free. The developers of this gadget say that obtaining visual logs this way can be a very useful way of helping people with impaired or fading memories to recall past events conveniently, also hinting on its usefulness for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
According to researchers, the convenience of using most of these gadgets is the main driving factor for their popularity. The data collected using these methods can easily be used for health recommendations, which even health professionals are saying can be an advantage for the future of diagnostic testing.