November 2013
Beginner to intermediate
950 pages
34h 26m
English
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Health & Fitness
Apparently, Microsoft’s Web-magazine team was working overtime for Windows 8.1, because here’s another one. This one’s devoted to exercise, nutrition, medicine, and other aspects of health.
As with the other Bing-derived magazines in Windows 8.1, this one includes both beautifully laid out articles from the Web and tools—mini-apps—that fit the topic. Health & Fitness includes some especially cool ones.
You’ll find buttons for all of this app’s goodies in the App bar (swipe down, or right-click)—but you can also scroll to the right to find them. Here’s a snapshot of the offerings:
Nutrition stats. Use the Search Health & Fitness box to type the name of any kind of food. You get a complete dossier on just how bad it is for you.
Diet tracker. Log the food you eat, see how many calories you’re piling on.
Diet browser. The Atkins Diet, Beverly Hills Diet, Caveman Diet, Healthy Heart Diet—they’re all here, with many others. Tap to read about that diet’s concept and goal.
Fitness Videos. The videos on this palette illustrate the app’s various workouts. Just add discipline.
Articles and News. Magazine-style presentations of the latest Web news about health.
Exercise tracker. Record your workouts, marvel at the graphs that show your improvement over time.
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