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:

(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…)

When we sleep, we are in another world, so to speak. Either we go somewhere in our dreams or we just sign out of our conscious world for a while. Wherever it is that our minds “go” when we sleep, it doesn’t seem as if we and our bodies are doing much during the “trip.” (Well, except for those vigorous sleepers and folks who sleepwalk or sleep talk.)

But, even though we don’t fully understand all the happens to our bodies when we sleep – or even exactly why we sleep – we do know that getting or not getting a good night’s sleep has a huge impact on our regular, waking selves.

The Harvard Women’s Health Watch summarized some of the best benefits of a good night’s sleep in a nice, short, six-item list (more…)

Most people think of “x-rays” as the pictures that doctors take when trying to “see” something inside their bodies. This common usage is correct, but x-rays (or x-radiation) are actually a type of electromagnetic energy. They act a lot like the rays of light we are accustomed to seeing except their energy waves are much, much shorter.

X-rays – the pictures – have been helping doctors see inside the human body for over a hundred years. They have helped find broken bones and strange objects hidden inside people. They’ve helped diagnose pneumonia and asthma and heart problems. They uncovered strange growths and cancers. They’ve helped us understand the inside of the human body in ways we had never been able to before their discovery.

X-radiation has been used to treat medical conditions for almost as long as they’ve been used to take pictures. At first, they were thought to cause no damage to human tissue in small doses and in large doses the harmful effects were thought to be only temporary. (more…)

Straining, squinting, craning his neck forward…none of it seemed to help. Hal simply could not see the face of the girl who had just waved at him from across the park. As she disappeared behind the row of bushes which lined the grassy commons, he said to his brother, Sal, “Man, I need my Superman x-ray vision glasses.”

Sal peered at him with a quizzical look and said, “Dude, you don’t need x-ray vision glasses. Like I keep telling you, you just need glasses glasses.”

Hal slapped at Sal’s upper arm and responded, “I do not!”

“Yeah?” queried Sal. “OK, so who was that PYT who just waved at you?”

“Right…like you could see her,” answered Hal.

“Sure could,” said Sal. “Plain as day.”

“Nuh uh,” replied Hal. “No way you could make out her face from clear across the park.”

“Could to,” answered Sal. “Wanna know who it was?” he asked.

Sheepishly, Hal looked at his little brother and said, in a much less argumentative voice, (more…)

Coaches often use the phrase “There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’” to emphasize the importance of group effort. Any good team is truly made up of partners, members who see the value of working together as more important than any of their individual glories.

As far back as our human history can be judged, people have always found that teaming up brings benefits. We are a communal people. We work together, play together, pray together, and look for ways to increase our connectedness via technology. In short, we are a “tribe.”

Why then is it that people so often feel alone when it comes to health issues?

Whether it’s a physical or mental health issue, you’ll often hear people say they feel alone, as if they are the only person on the planet who has such feelings (more…)