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Healthy Dates to Keep Month May Cause Physical Fitness and Sports Men’s Health aCtion Looking for a way to stay active? Gwinnett Medical Center offers classes for circuit training, Pilates, tai chi and yoga. To find out more, visit gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/classes. June For more information about cancer services at Gwinnett Medical Center, visit gwinnett medicalcenter.org/cancer. Be sure to schedule an annual appointment with a dermatologist to have a full-body mole check. Visit gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/physician to find a physician near you. July UV Safety S App And GAminG photoGrAphy by thinkstock Apps a Plenty Let’s face it. Your smartphone is a computer. It’s just smaller and cooler. And application developers the world over have found ways for it to help you be healthier. Here are a few of our favorite apps: Calorie Count: Food journaling can help you keep the pounds away, but logging your meals can be a chore. With this app, no typing is required. Just talk into your phone, and the voice recognition software logs your meals and physical activity. Using a simple calories-in, calories-out measure, a graphic balance scale keeps you in check. Available at caloriecount.about.com. naP26: Twenty-six minutes is the perfect amount of time to nap, according to NASA. In fact, it could increase your alertness by 54 percent! This nap app will guide you through a perfect power snooze based on this principle. NAP26 lulls you to sleep using sound vibrations that match natural sleep patterns, and then wakes you after 26 minutes. Available at nap26.com. instant Heart rate: As your heart beats, it brings oxygen-rich blood to the fingertips, which causes an almost imperceptible change in color. The Instant Heart Rate app monitors these color changes to determine your overall heart rate by having you hold your index finger lightly over the camera on your smartphone for 10 seconds. Available at instantheartrate.com. online National Physical Fitness and Sports Month (May) is a great time to start training. To find locations and hours for GMC’s SportsRehab, visit gwinnett medicalcenter.org/sportsrehab or call 678-312-2803. Moving Motivation Vim & Vigor • Sum mer 2012 47 http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/classes http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/cancer http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/cancer http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/physician http://caloriecount.about.com http://www.nap26.com http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/sportsrehab http://www.gwinnettmedicalcenter.org/sportsrehab http://www.instantheartrate.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Vim & Vigor - Summer 2012 - Gwinnett Medical Center

Vim & Vigor - Summer 2012 - Gwinnett Medical Center
Contents
Phil’s Feature
Good as New
With Open Hearts
The Breakfast Club
Arthritis Answers
A TV Guide to Radiology
Take Aim
It Might NOT Be Cancer
Colin Firth
Step Up to the Plate
Life After Cancer
Get Dad to the Doc
Virtual Health
PrimeTime Health
Half the Man He Was
Have a Happy Birth Day
Out of the White Coat
Transforming Healthcare

Vim & Vigor - Summer 2012 - Gwinnett Medical Center