Ways to Track Your Personal Health Information on Your Phone

Your smartphone is a powerful and flexible tool for acquiring information related to your health. 【小题1】 There are other various ways that allow the user several approaches for acquiring health information.

● 【小题2】The sensors (传感器) built in to your phone can automatically acquire selected types of health information when they are linked to suitable apps. Thus, the apps take advantage of the phone's stock hardware to deliver specialized health-related functions. 【小题3】 Numerous apps use the phone's GPS to track outdoor activities like running or walking. A handful of apps also use the accelerometer (加速度计) to track indoor activities like treadmill running，which would be impossible to measure with the GPS.

● Acquire information with a separate health sensor. The smartphone itself is a wonder of modern technology. 【小题4】 Here are a few devices you can connect with your phone to track health information: Activity trackers like the fitbit, blood pressure monitor, heart rhythm monitor. Comprehensive platforms like Apple's Health app make it easy to tie all this information together.

● Link to your electronic health records. Much of your health information may be stored in electronic health records maintained by your health care providers. 【小题5】You can access your health records through a patient portal (入口) on your phone or download it with the Blue Button function.

Who gets to decide what is content worth posting? Content worth engaging?

On social media, it’s an algorithm (算法) — a computer program that matches your particular likes and follows with others who have similar likes and follows. But even more than that, it’s based on how much content you create. If you don’t feed the social media monster on a regular basis, it refuses to expose what you post for others to see.

Thus, some bloggers share heavily filtered (过滤) photos of tourist attractions on the social media and lifestyle platform to get traffic. However, this practice sometimes disappoints other users of Instagram who go to those locations after seeing the pictures.

Since the bloggers don’t clearly state that their pictures are works of photography, they are considered as travel guides. After the viewers visit those places in person, they find a big gap between reality and what they have seen online, leaving them feeling frustrated.

Last week, one famous app issued a statement on its social media account, admitting that some users have “over-beautified” their online travel diaries.

The apology came after users complained on social media about their experience following travel guides on the app, only to find out on actual visits that the places are poles apart from the skilfully retouched images they saw. One of the most well-known cases involved the “pink beach” of Fuxian Lake in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, which often appears online in dreamy pink images, but in reality is more similar to the colour of red bricks.

“If it’s OK to photoshop promotion pictures for tourist sites like this, I can turn the bushes downstairs in my neighbourhood into a Norwegian forest in any minute,” one of the most upvoted (置顶) comments on the app said. Others argued that the problem lies with the bloggers rather than the platform.

Countries around the globe are spending billions of dollars and lots of time on various space missions. 【小题1】 Instead, we should feed the world’s poor and find immediate solutions to other problems. However, others feel this is a shallow view which fails to realize how exploring space helps us.

【小题2】 It has directly resulted in the many satellites that now orbit Earth. A number of the satellites record data on land and weather patterns. 【小题3】 After careful analysis, the scientists can provide useful recommendations and advice for farmers.

Space exploration has already promoted technological improvements that benefit us all. High-end products around the world are made to a higher standard. Today space technologies are widely used in all kinds of industries. 【小题4】

Sending astronauts into space has helped people think about the world’s problems and find ways to solve them. Our planet’s resources are limited. In order to provide for the rapidly increasing population, scientists are trying to find other planets that could one day be our new home. 【小题5】 In the future, humans may live on both planets.

Exploring space benefits us so much. So it should continue so as to provide new and better solutions to people’s short-term and long-term problems.