Apple has some heart wrenching information for you. And we do mean that in the literal sense. You might have read a lot of dubious reports about the power of cellphones to cause brain cancer. This is the real deal.

Apple says that their offering Apple 12 may harm your heart.

In a warning released on January 23rd, Apple says that iPhone magnets may have an effect on medical devices including defibrillators and pacemakers.

1.3 million Americans are using pacemakers now, and more and more start using them each year.

Defibrillators are in widespread use too, though precise statistics are a little harder to find.

According to Apple’s warnings, certain items within iPhones such as radios, magnets, and what they call ‘components.’ These items emit electromagnetic energy and this could alter the functioning of these lifesaving medical devices.

“These magnets and electromagnetic fields might interfere with medical devices,” reads the advisory.

The report hints at the culprit by mentioning that ‘iPhone 12 models contain more magnets than prior iPhone models.’

Apple explains that sensors within medical devices like pacemakers and defibrillators may react when they are close to radios and magnets.

iPhone users are advised to keep their iPhone accessories away from their implanted medical devices – at least 6-12 inches.

Shirt pockets, coat breast pockets, and even pants pockets are now clearly unsafe places to keep an iPhone 12. This warning means that people who have implanted medical devices may find it dangerous to walk around with an iPhone 12. How do you walk with a phone while keeping it as far away from you as possible?

According to an article published in January 2021’s edition of the Heart Rhythm Journal says that external magnets may cause defibrillators to suspend ‘high voltage shock therapy for ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.’

An experiment found that as long as the iPhone 12 remained over the patient’s left chest area and close to the defibrillator, ICD therapies stopped. The same thing happened when the iPhone 12 was moved to other parts of the chest.

This means that iPhone 12 has the power to harm patients by halting vital and life-prolonging therapy.

Upper pockets were found to be the worst places to keep an iPhone 12 for patients who have installed pacemakers and defibrillators.

According to the journal, even fitness tracker wristbands have been found to interfere with defibrillators as far as 2.4cm or 1 inch away.

While we do appreciate the warning, we feel it would be a lot more helpful for Apple to provide a solution. Like a different version of the phone, or maybe a protective casing around the phone that blocks magnetic signals.

Poor diet is responsible for more premature deaths and more disabilities worldwide than any other thing. The latest research shows that even Covid-19 deaths are more prevalent among people who suffer from diet-related disorders.

People who stick to a healthy, balanced diet are overwhelmingly less likely to suffer diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. A healthy diet also helps you fight against Covid-19.

Diet therapy is both a preventative and palliative measure because it helps in managing and treating chronic diseases. Medics use nutrition therapy to help manage illnesses.

MNT (Medical Nutrition Therapy)

Medical nutrition therapy involves using diet and nutrition to alleviate illnesses and injuries or any health conditions.

MNT also works for a variety of medical conditions from depression, to kidney disease and depression.

In spite of the evidence supporting MNT as a means of chronic illness management, it is still not in widespread use. The cost of MNT as well as its availability and coverage means that not many patients can access it.

One study found that only 4% of people who had type 2 diabetes and were on Medicare benefited from MNT services within 12 months of their diagnoses.

Digital Health Technology can Advance MNT

Digital Health Technology has the amazing power to make MNT more accessible as well as more precise and individualized than it has ever been.

We can now use different data collection methods to track, record, as well as analyze our health over time. This data is collected whenever we record a run on a mobile application, or monitor our heart rate with a smart watch.

More than a fifth of Americans use wearable devices or health apps to track their own health. We have more than 300,000 apps for health tracking. This shows just how much demand there is for the apps.

New technologies like machine learning and using synchronous platforms for big data analyses to digest data in real time offer the wonderful opportunity to manage nutrition in new ways.

Machine learning and big data analysis can be leveraged to analyze phenomena like meal patterns and the severity of symptoms to validate Medical Nutrition Therapy recommendations for patients.

We can now gain a better understanding of the role diet plays in preventing disease as well as treating and managing them to constantly modify Medical Nutrition Therapy recommendations to the fit the individual needs of patients.

We can take Medical Nutrition Therapy to new heights by leveraging Machine learning together with big data analysis.

This technology when integrated with mobile devices enables patients to participate in their own medical care by feeding their nutrition information wherever they are.

To maximize the accessibility of Medical Nutrition Therapy, the technology can be integrated on one digital health platform to help people access the service without having to pay for in-person MNT.

This technology can ease the financial burden on patients in the long term as well as save many lives and reduce public expenditure on health by tens of billions.

Individualized MNT Recommendations

To come up with a platform for continuous data analysis across socio economic groups and geographic areas may lead to a better understanding of how diet affects disease especially among vulnerable people like the acutely ill and the elderly.

With more focus on data analysis, we can spot factors of chronic disease earlier and prescribe diet interventions early enough to prevent or even reverse diseases.

Ever changing preferences and dietary needs mean that such platforms must adapt to the growth of an individual, helping to increase our understanding of the individual’s dietary needs in the course of a lifetime.

Platforms like the one mentioned leverage algorithms to spot patterns that reflect individual differences in physiology, behavior, and biology and apply the insights to arrive at the optimum diet for that individual based on their lifestyle, health condition, and genetics.

Machine learning and big data analysis are excellent tools for expanding our grasp of the individual nutritional needs as well as their dietary response, and for allowing medics to make more precise MNT Prescriptions.

The technology is capable of raising the standards of clinical care by making it possible to easily recognize the connections between drugs, nutrition, and disease in order to make better assessments of malnutrition and come up with the best criteria for starting medical nutrition.

It looks like the next frontier of technology will bring with it more precise personalized nutrition.

Apple users can now access their own exclusive workout videos available through the Apple Watch and accessible on iPhones, Apple TVs, and iPads.

Apple Fitness+ was announced at the company’s 2020 event, along with new offerings like the watchOS 7, Apple Watch SE, and the Apple Watch 6, all of which feature premium health tracking.

Apple Fitness+ allows users to choose their preferred workout by their preferred time, trainer, or music. All workouts come pre-recorded.

Is Apple Fitness Plus Already Out?

December 14^th 2020 was the release date for Apple Fitness + in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand. Users who opt in will pay a monthly fee of $9.99 or an annual fee of $79.9.

Apple users who are on Apple One’s premium service will get Apple Fitness+ as a bonus, along with News Plus, Apple Arcade, Apple TV Plus, Apple Music as well as iCloud storage for the fee of $29.95 monthly.

Apple Watches will also come with a free three-month subscription to Apple Fitness+.  Users of the new fitness service will access interactive and multidisciplinary fitness content. Everything from treadmill workouts to core workouts is covered.

Any Apple user with an iPhone, Apple TV, or Apple Tablet will be able to play the videos. Apple Watches will not only run the content on Apple Fitness+ but also show users metrics like how many calories they burn, lengths and times of workouts, and their heart rates.

The service will highlight any metric that the instructor wants users to focus on, for example the heart rate. Trainers will be in a position to stress any metrics they feel need special attention.

The downside of the Apple Fitness+ is that users cannot integrate their workouts with those of their friends and family members. They cannot create challenges together with fellow users.

Users can motivate themselves using the Burn Bar which shows their progress within a workout. Burn bars are equalized by weight and height to reflect the desired fitness metrics for the individual.

Apple Fitness+ helps users to have balanced workout programs by suggesting videos that may be missing from their routine. For example, individuals who favor HIIT workouts may be nudged towards cross-training.

The Trainers

Apple Fitness+ trainers come from a wide range of disciplines. They offer their expertise in multiple videos which allows users to have balanced and cohesive workout routines. Users can also select their preferred trainers.

The Requirements

To enjoy the Apple Fitness+ experience, you would need an Apple Watch and a subscription to the Fitness Plus service as well as an iPhone, Apple TV, or iPad which runs on iOS14 or iPadOS14 or tvOS14 respectively. Your Apple Watch has to run on the most recent watchOS7 software or be compatible with GymKit.

The Apple Fitness+ is a great product for fitness lovers who want to exercise regularly to keep themselves fit.