An APPetite for Health

Over the last few months Houston DINEs has stressed the importance of counting calories and knowing your caloric needs. In the city of Houston dining out and doing it with health in mind is extremely difficult. There are so many options on any given day.Houston might be among the top city with the most restaurants per capita. In addition to a vast number of restaurants Houston, also has an extremely high obesity rate of over 30% in Harris County.

While we as Houstonians absolutely love to eat, we should always keep our health and the health of families as our first priority. The first step towards eating better is knowing what the healthy options are. In an ideal world where restaurants post caloric content on menus we would be able to easily identify what is healthy and what is not. In the meantime, let your smart phones do all the work by downloading the Lose It app. The Lose It app allows users to track their daily caloric content. Knowing your numbers help to reduce obesity and combat weigh gain.

Thanks to the Lose It app you can log your food consumption and daily physical activity, and record weights almost the same way that you create a monthly spending budget. Don’t have an Iphone or Black Berry? You can you the web based version by logging on to www.loseit.com website. It simply requires a free Loseit.com account. It’s easier than low calorie apple pie. Check out this YouTube presentation to see how it works:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1n3Kxy-lNk&feature=player_embedded