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We are always told to cut back on our dietary fats but there seems to be a problem with the research, It doesn’t seem to support this.

Over at Medpage Today there is an article that is a study or studies. It seems that out of 27 randomized controlled trials (That means the researchers were checking results but were isolated from individual patient info) there seemed to be no firm direction dietary guidelines that encourage high intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of saturated fats are not clearly supported by research.

According to the researcher of this, Rajiv Chowdhury of the University of Cambridge said:

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“The pattern of this analysis did not yield clearly supportive evidence for current cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of saturated fats,” concluded Chowdhury and his co-authors. What’s more, they said, “Nutritional guidelines on fatty acids and cardiovascular guidelines may require reappraisal to reflect the current evidence.”

The info at the MedPage article is really interesting although very dense with info but lots of the info we think is right like “Eat real food”, or the idea of using fad diets that aren’t very easy to follow forever seems to be correct.

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I have had an iPhone and an iPad for three years or so and just like any other fitness person I have used my iphone for tracking speed and mileage for walking and running. I used the Runkeeper app a lot last Summer in getting ready for the Kidney March.

Well there was a leak today to the website 9to5mac that seems to show that Apple is looking to take over that tracking market that is so very popular.

So What is Healthbook?

As detailed in the images throughout this article, which are complete recreations of screenshots, Healthbook’s user interface is largely inspired by the iPhone’s existing Passbook application. Versions of Healthbook in testing are capable of tracking several different health and fitness data points.

Each category of functionality is a card in the Healthbook. Cards are distinguished by a color, and the tabs can be arranged to fit user preferences. As can be seen in the above images, Healthbook has sections that can track data pertaining to bloodwork, heart rate, hydration, blood pressure, physical activity, nutrition, blood sugar, sleep, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and weight.

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So if this is in fact true we may see some releases rollout or even a whole suite that is rumored to include things Oxygen Saturation, blood glucose, hydration and even sleep tracking.

There is one thing that makes this difficult to do though and that is the probes or measuring devices. We will have to see if there is going to be any extra addons like Nike used to have when you would need to by the little tag to put on your shoe to track mileage. This kind of plays right into the idea of the Apple Watch though so there may need to be a few announcements coming.

Would this be a “must Buy” item for you? Would you like to have all your health and related info on your phone? Some people worry about privacy, I would instead worry more about accuracy.

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