If you want to stay healthy you need to eat the right foods and take enough exercise. And there are other aspects to a healthy life too. Your phone can help, with a wide range of health related apps on offer.

APP OF THE MONTH: Adidas MiCoach
PRICE: £FREE
RATING: 5/5
MiCoach is a very smart piece of software for runners. It uses the GPS in your phone to track routes, calculates times, distance, pace, calories burned and more. The miCoach software uses training schedules downloaded from www.micoach.com, where there are plenty of options to meet every need from beginners to marathon runners.

Audible alerts and encouragement help you along, auto synching of training results means you have web based data at your fingertips, and you can listen to music playlists while you train.

My Tracks
PRICE: £FREE
RATING: 4/5
Plenty of apps use GPS to track distance travelled on your phone. My Tracks is a Google app that does this using Google Maps, and then shares copious statistics with a web site. It supports a range of external sensors - the more technically minded might like to know it can talk to ANT heart rate monitors, for example. My Tracks is as good for walkers as for those involved in more strenuous exercise.

MyFitnessPal
PRICE: £FREE
RATING: 4/5
MyFitnessPal is billed as a weight loss assistant, and its key feature is a calorie counter. It has a huge foods database and you can record individual foods eaten or entire meals easily, saving the latter for re-use so you can easily record favourite meals again and again.

There's a barcode scanner to match foods to the database without going through lots of text entry, and a recipe calculator that works out the calories and nutritional content of any of your own recipes.

A second element includes more than 350 exercises which you can augment with your own exercises, so you can keep track of activities as well as your diet. It all synchronises with a website too.

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