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Amazing Apps: Health-Seekers Level Up Self-Care with Gamification Apps

Motherhood Moments

For fun-seekers who enjoy engagement, Fitocracy is an app offering online games and social networks to help users stay motivated improve their fitness. Making a game of increasing exercise and making healthier nutrition choices can be a powerful way to provide additional motivation.

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Healthy Habits - Gamification Apps for Healthy Habits

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As technology and healthcare become increasingly intertwined, so too does the advent and acceptance of innovative behavioral health intervention approaches. This amid throngs of other behavioral science studies validating the power of gamifying weight-loss efforts: money-motivated obesity intervention and prevention.

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10 Tips on how to motivate yourself to exercise more

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But if you belong to the opposite crowd, those who drag themselves to the gym or fall asleep lacing up their running shoes, then you have bigger fish to fry: lack of motivation. But how do you motivate yourself to get off the couch and exercise? Money, like health, is always a good motivator. Talk yourself into doing it.

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Giveaway: Fall Into Health Wellness Package ($225 Value!)

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My health has always been important to me, but lately, I am trying to take a more active role in my health care by remaining active (starting a running program !), Parents.com has partnered with Aetna to help moms get a better handle on their health AND health care costs.

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Parenting Pointers - What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Children on Social Media

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Murthy says while we don’t yet know the full impact on our young people, there are “ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents.” Student wellbeing activist David Magee couldn’t agree more. In fact, it’s making them sick and miserable.” Don’t preach.

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Parenting Pointers: Promoting Emotional Readiness for the Workplace

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Their responses were disheartening, to say the least: 51 percent said they needed help for mental health problems in the past year. In his book, Magee builds a compelling case that smartphones and their associated apps “have more to do with the mental health and substance misuse epidemic than most parents and educators can conceive.”

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Get Paid to Work Out in 6 Ways for 2017

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Now that should motivate anyone? HealthyWage will then tell you how much you will win if you succeed. there are TONS of awesome of health apps you can use to connect. Lose 10% of your weight and win cash with DietBet. I had to do something and I needed to be motivated. Did you know you can get paid to workout?

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