MyOmBody App!

MyOmBody releases health and happiness app for iPhone

Cambridge, MA 

MyOmBody, a health startup, has introduced an app that allows you to track your health and happiness on your iPhone. MyOmBody is based on three beliefs:

• There is more to food than calories
• There is more to wellbeing than being skinny
• Optimal health is about feeling awesome, not doing everything “right”

“Your relationship with your family, your social life and your sense of fulfillment in your career are more important determinants of your well-being than eating broccoli or running marathons,” says MyOmBody founder Lindsey Witmer. “We wanted to create a platform where you could track everything and get insight into how it all connects.”

MyOmBody quizzes users once a day with questions such as:

• How much have people enjoyed being around you today?
• Can you let go of the things outside of your control today?
• How many fist-sized servings of vegetables did you eat today?

Over time, the app gives users insight into how these various aspects of their life might be connecting. For example, you might find out that:

• You have less energy when you eat wheat
• Generosity reduces your stress levels
• The pain in your joints is affected by your sugar consumption

“Algorithms are really fun,” says Witmer. “But I don’t believe that algorithms or apps, even this one, will ever be able to replace human caregivers.” MyOmBody gives every user of the app a free initial consultation with an integrative health coach. “I chose these coaches out of hundreds of applicants; they have thriving practices all over the US and the world. I am thrilled to be able to offer their services to MyOmBody users.”

Download MyOmBody now at: http://bit.ly/VBfncP

Health on a Fork

Recent headlines identifying the health care crisis in America does little to assist a concerned public in clarifying the changes needed to promote this valued commodity called health, or to instruct individuals in habits for minimizing disease risks. In a soon to be released video Forks Over Knives, a documentary focused on practical help to answer these concerns of increasing risk, this timely film engages discussion for health based on the food on your plate. Two dedicated men share their research, concerns and expertise in diet and lifestyle intervention for an approach to health care that will substantially reduce disease, illness and suffering in our society.

Decades of research by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. published in his book, The China Study, and clinical work by Caldwell B. Esseltyn, MD compare the effects of disease rates with nutritional consumption. The compelling connection between diet and disease is reflected in published research, clinical trials and personal stories.  Both Dr. Campbell and Dr. Esseltyn combine their expertise to reveal a powerful option to interrupt, reverse, and heal from chronic and life threatening illness. That option presented in their film, to be released in March 2011, is to reject the Standard American Diet (SAD) and begin a plant-based way of eating.

As simple as this recommendation is why do many avoid this path to health and wellness? If you were told that your favorite food is linked to your recently diagnosed cancer, would you choose to never eat that food again?  If you were told that your favorite food is a contributing cause to your diabetes to eventually cause blindness, would you be willing to change your food habits? None of the inflammatory, chronic, or auto-immune diseases afflicting growing numbers of people have any cure available from the medical community. Nutritional experts and researchers have consistently shown through numerous studies that we are what we eat and that our diets are connected to the diseases we suffer, endure and spend our life savings in symptom care with no real hope for measurable healing.

The truth for eliminating disease is to understand the power of plant foods to protect and heal the body. But, lifestyle factors that remove home cooked meals as the normal way to eat food, with increased access to convenience foods, along with a strong belief that medicine will “cure” illness with a yet to be discovered potent pill, keep many trapped into thinking that food is not really that important to actual health.

Perhaps the answer for minimizing disease is so obvious, we’ve missed it! Examine the food on your fork and ask whether it is recognizable as whole, fresh, fruits, vegetables, leafy greens, nuts, seeds, beans, or whole grains and without additives, chemicals or preservatives. Are you consuming plant-based protection for your health? The most wonderful result of the many studies and stories of diet and lifestyle intervention is how quickly the body responds to nutrition from whole, fresh, plant food sources. Truly how much your health is worth can be measured by the foods consistently chosen for your plate and fork.

For more information on changing your health outcomes, visit my website: www.bethforhealth.com and contact me for a health consultation.

The Future of Food - Trailer

The Future of Food - Trailer:

This documentary is very well done as it explains the connections between farming, foods, biotechnology and health. So much of American eating is truly unhealthy. But questions surrounding food engineering for improving the food supply suggest that some may be creating the next health and life threat.

Take a look at this film and begin to consider your response to food, farms, genetics and your own health.