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The top nutrition apps chosen by Food & Nutrition. Check out the reviews!

Chosen by EXOS (formerly Core Performance). EXOS is all about improvement.

Modern products that attribute to better eating habits. 

Categories include Fitness (Runkeeper), Diet & Nutrition (Fooducate), Food (Veg Out/Happy Cow), Primary Foods (Gratitude Journal Your Positive Thoughts).

This site is very user-friendly, and helps people with a cancer diagnosis eat well through a variety of resources. There are nutrition guides, FAQs about a wide range of subjects, and recipes. For those unable to cook for themselves, they will provide healthy prepared meals (delivered via FedEx) after a personal consultation with a registered oncology dietitian.

Nourish Interactive is a web based company that is dedicated to supporting parents by providing them with useful information to help them improve their families health and educating children about the importance of nutrition and exercise. Free games, printables, recipes and tips provided.

Let's Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to pursue their dreams. The website includes sections on nutrition, physical fitness, as well as tips and step-by-step guides for parents and schools.

NUTRITIONFACTS.ORG is brought to you by the Jesse & Julie Rasch Foundation in partnership with Michael Greger M.D. Dr. Greger scours the world of nutrition-related research, as published in scientific journals, and brings that information to you in short, easy to understand video segments. We also provide links to the original journal articles whenever possible so that you can source the information directly, if you so desire.

Discovered this interactive fitness and wellness website fivi.com. You can share nutrition ideas, set up a virtual running route, & workout ideas. This blog talks about a recent WSJ article on heart disease.

Eat more oranges! Nice article on health & business. The real secret to the company's success isn't as much about dissecting the relationship between fat and carbs and protein as it is understanding the links between nutrition, weight gain, and psychology. Not everyone needs a weekly meeting to lose weight, but for many the commiseration and general back-slapping helps. That's been the Weight Watchers formula from day one. And for now, it seems to be working better than ever. Profits are up. Pounds are down

A new site that helps you reach your wellness goals, including nutrition and fitness. Technology allows them to match coaches with individuals who would like a wellness coach. Wellness is part of preventative care, which has been proven to be cheaper than treating ailments.

This site is a fantastic resource for cancer patients, their loved ones, and their caretakers. The discussion forums are moderated by professionals, and you need to apply to belong to them. There are many different online services available, and actual in person services for residents of parts of NY/NJ/CT.

This site is a great resource for anyone interested in integrative health care. Dr. Hobb's is an herbalist and mycologist and provides easy to use information on how to incorporate herbs into your medicine cabinet. For those that want to go a step further and learn to prepare their own extracts, teas, and tinctures, there are online courses and downloadable videos and class handouts available for free.

Great article on how the Cuban population prevents illness so that they don't have to cure it. Healthcare in Cuba is free and even written in their constitution. Each citizen is given an annual health check up and ones who are not as healthy are seen more frequently. They teach their citizens how to be healthy so they don't get health-related diseases. Smart system and I think it should be integrated in other countries as well.

I love this post and thank you. So many to learn from. Cuba has always been on my list to visit!

An online service launched in 2005, called Nutrax, helps people "watch what they eat" by allowing them to snap pictures of their meals and send them to an online food diary. The idea is that taking pictures is fast and easy, and much less cumbersome than keeping track of what you eat by writing it down. This technology improves chances of success in making dietary changes.

MealSnap counts the calories of your meals through pictures.

This article talks about the effect of distractions on our body - especially while we're eating. Distractions cause the body to activate the stress response and reduce it's efficiency in absorbing nutrients. Think about how often we eat while doing other things like sitting at the computer, watching TV, or driving a car.

Advancement of wearable adhesive bandages that can monitor a multitude of different information. From a baby's temperature, to athletes training regimen. The wearable tech connects through bluetooth technology to send the data they collect to your mobile device for review.

A new year is upon us and we are already seeing amazing advancements in healthcare technology, everything from enterprise cloud software to nanobots. Is healthcare finally catching up with the times? New startups and fortune 500 companies alike, are in a modern-day health care gold rush, with everyone trying to stake their claim.

Electrical stimulation of the brain might hold potential as a weapon against obesity, a small study suggests. The U.S. National Institutes of Health study found that stimulating the brain's prefrontal cortex caused people to eat less, consume fewer calories from soda and fat, and lose more weight.