DC-based digital health startup Audax Health launched a really interesting online health platform today called Careverge. If one of your goals – for this year, or maybe it’s just ongoing – is to get and stay healthy, Careverge could be a fun way to go about it, as the platform combines social networking and gaming. The Careverge…
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I don’t know anyone who makes New Year’s resolutions – and sticks to them – at least for longer than 2 weeks. It’s so easy to say “I want to eat better or exercise more or stop drinking like it’s New Year’s Eve every day,” but with broad goals like that, actually making those changes…
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Fitocacy, the web game that helps you improve your physical fitness, has a new look and feel to help you manage your workouts. We covered Fitocracy back in May, to let our readers know how they can improve their fitness results using this fun and challenging game. Now Fitocracy’s Workout Tracker has been redesigned to enhance the…
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As a newly formed “health nut,” I understand that creating a healthy lifestyle requires more than willpower to be sustainable over time. To adopt new healthy eating and fitness habits, a wellness plan should be fun, rewarding, and, if you’re lucky, something you can share with others. A new app called Wellthy is helping people…
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Editor’s Note: This article was written by Zach Davis on his iPhone while hiking the Appalachian Trail (he started in March) from Georgia to Maine. Follow Zach’s progress via the Zach-Track-O-Matic or on Twitter @zrdavis. How would you like to double the traffic to your website with only 1/4 the effort? Piqued your interest? It…
Read MoreThis past week we sat down with two time New York Times bestselling author Tim Ferriss. His first book, The 4 Hour Work Week, shared an inspiring manifesto for freeing you from your cubicle so you can do more of what you love, while his most recent book, The 4 Hour Body, examines all the various health…
Read MoreTime to resurrect your New Year’s resolutions! Startup GreenGoose, which was just named Best Overall/Launch Pad at the Launch Conference in San Francisco, released their very cool lifestyle tracking device this week. Want to drink more water or start exercising every day? Want your kids to brush their teeth more often and/or start walking the…
Read MoreIf you are into a distance-based outdoor sport, you have got to check out the Endomondo Sports Tracker app, which turns a mobile phone into a full-fledged personal trainer. It can be used for running, cycling, walking, and other distance-based sports. Founded in 2007 by three former McKinsey & Company management consultants who also just…
Read MoreBefore you completely abandon your annual New Year’s resolution to start exercising more, check out the brand-new start up EarndIt for a little extra motivation. The team at EarndIt taps into something behavioral economists call “hyperbolic discounting,” which means that humans discount the value of a reward that occurs far into the future, preferring instead…
Read More2011 is officially here! And with the dawn of a new year comes new resolutions, usually for more happiness and better health. Technology can help with both. Getting new gadgets makes you happy and using them can actually help to keep you healthy. The first thing to know is that whatever type of fitness person…
Read MoreIf you thought the gym or yoga studio was your safe-haven from the connected world, think twice. Devices and sites are keeping us connected and trying to keep us on plan and in shape more than ever. The great news is that new sites like FiVi.com are moving beyond simple planning and tracking, attempting to…
Read MoreToday Boulder-based startup DailyBurn, a fitness social network for detailed tracking, online accountability, and motivation, announced on its blog that a majority stake in the company was acquired by IAC’s MindSpeak Interactive Network. Here is the announcement: Today we are very pleased to announce that we have joined forces with IAC to create a partnership…
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