SALE!

The premium version of HNM’s Huff & Puff: The Asthma App is now available at a dramatically reduced introductory price! We’ve cut the price to $1.99 for the high def iPad version and just $0.99 for the SD versions for iPhone/iPod and Android devices. (Normally, they’re’s $7.99 and $3.99, respectively.)

“We want to make it as easy as possible for everyone to obtain the full app,” said Tim Jones, HNM’s CEO. The free version is great, but it’s just a taste. The premium version provides lots more fun. And when I say ‘fun,’ I really mean ‘learning’ because that’s what we do. We make health learning fun.”

You can try the free versions of the app, or buy the full versions, using the following links:

iPad                                  iPhone/iPod                             Android

         
         

 
(Of course, you could just search “Huff & Puff” in the App Store or Google Play and you’ll find it.)

We’ll be working on updates and improvements just as fast as we can to enhance your fun, so please let us know what you think. Tell us what you like, what you don’t like, or what new features you’d like to see. You can email us at support@healthnutsmedia.com or via our Support page.

Hope you enjoy it. (Please leave a Comment on the App Store or Google Play, if you do!)
 

Dr. Gregg
Posted – May 21, 2013
 

PS – A very special thanks to everyone who supported us – family, friends, colleagues, and more – in the development of Huff & Puff: The Asthma App!
 

Huff & Puff: The Asthma App – “the world’s best asthma education app!” – released in free and premium versions for tablets and smart phones

Los Angeles, CA – May 21, 2013: Health Nuts Media (HNM), a health engagement company, announces the release of their app, Huff & Puff: The Asthma App, for recent versions of the iPad/iPod/iPhone and Android tablets and smart phones.

Based on their animated series, Huff & Puff: An Asthma Tale, the app takes the fun to a whole new level. HNM’s CEO, Tim Jones, explains that, “While our animated series has received rave reviews from patients, doctors, nurses, and health educators across the country, we knew we wanted to take the level of engagement up even higher. Adding games and quizzes helped us make it even more fun. “Gamification” of health information has been shown to be an effective way to engage people and improve their health literacy. With our app, people can learn without even knowing they’re doing so!” (more…)

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Seattle Times reports on advances in technology to help people with asthma

Los Angeles, CA — August 9, 2012: Last week, the Seattle Times ran a great little piece entitled, “New high-tech devices monitor asthma, raise awareness” in which Health Nuts Media and one of our wonderful distribution partners, Learn360 Health were highlighted.

Staff reporter Kibkabe Araya researched how “Technology is helping people with asthma better manage their symptoms, even avoid certain triggers. Companies are unveiling devices that track inhaler usage with GPS, measure wheezing and compile data on smartphone mobile apps.”

According to the article, “‘We discovered over 85 percent of patients can bring their asthma under control,’ (more…)

Here’s a simple question: Why have the worlds of healthcare and “medicine” always avoided making health fun?

Here’s a simple answer: Making health fun just ain’t easy. (Please pardon the “ain’t.”)

Think about it. The worlds of health, healthcare, and medicine have long been owned by the elite. Typically, in years past, it was only the rich or privileged who were able to get medical training. Historically, the elite in their ivory towers of medical knowledge didn’t write down their wisdom for the general public; they wrote “scholarly” papers designed to talk in big terms using big words to “big” people with big vocabularies (and, many times, with big heads.) “It’s complicated, so it must be discussed with big words and in long, dull documents,” they said. And that is where they stopped. And that has become medical tradition.

Well, they were right…sort of. Health and the workings of the human body are pretty darn complex. There’s a whole lotta stuff going on inside of each of us. There’s a lot of “this thing connected to that thing causing the other thing to do some different thing.” We’re pretty amazing creatures full of complicated “machinery.”

But those medical elitists were wrong, too. Complicated or not, every single one of us has “health” (more…)

236,000,000,000 dollars! That’s how much low health literacy costs Americans each and every year; global costs are incalculable. Health Nuts Media presents an animated white paper on the challenges of low health literacy as well as solutions for increasing health literacy and improving consumer engagement using entertainment and new media.

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“There is nothing permanent except change.” So wrote Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, some 2,500 years ago. He was big on reason and logic, but he was smart enough to also know that each coin has two sides. In other words, life is full of opposites. As such, the polar opposites of “permanence” and “change” sort of require each other. Thinking of his wise words, I wondered how he might feel about the troubles we all have developing healthy habits.

Who among us doesn’t have something that they do that isn’t exactly healthy? (Goodness knows I do.) Everyone has habits or “lazinesses” that we’ve developed over time which have led us into doing things which are against our own best health interests. Too much chocolate, pop, sugary drinks, junk and/or fast foods; too much alcohol; smoking; driving too fast; sleeping too little; too much computer or T.V. time; etc…the list goes on and on of things which we know are unhealthy, yet which many of us still find hard to stop. (more…)

Hal was puffing pretty hard when he came through the back kitchen door. He walked over to the cupboards, grabbed a glass, and went to the fridge to grab the water pitcher. He poured a tall glass and drank it thristily. “A healthy habits app a day keeps the doctor away,” he muttered as he looked at his phone.

Sal, who was sitting at their small kitchen table looked up from his cereal bowl and asked, “Don’t you mean an apple a day? That’s what keeps the doctor away.”

“Well, yeah, that too,” replied Hal between breaths. “But, I was talking about my new app. It’s all about making me get better at healthy habits. Here…see?” Hal pressed a couple of buttons on his phone before turning it toward Sal. (more…)