The long awaited Google Health Beta has been released. Google health is designed as a one stop shop to carry all of your health records so that whenever moving to new pharmacies or health practitioners you can have everything in the same spot.

This idea is not new as Microsoft has the same service with a site called Health Vault. There are a few companies that are trying to get into this market but it is very competitive and of course everyone is nervous about putting their info into this type of site. All of your health info in one place makes a security breach very very dangerous to peoples privacy. As a tech guy I understand the need for privacy and the real issues that a lack of privacy could lead to.

So for a bit of a tour of Google Health I have a few screenshots here. First you need a Google Account which is easy enough to get and then when you go to Google Health you sign in and can start adding your information. As you can see below you have a few things you can add including prescription and health issue info.

And then finally once you have all of your info added to Google Health you can start to add new services. Google has started with the few below but of course as we have all seen we will probably see a lot more over time.

Go to Google Health and check it out.

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Often as people lose weight they run into a plateau, often this plateau is not really a time to be bearing down because the weight is not coming off although it is always a good time to look at all areas of your life to see if there is a good reason that you are not losing weight. Sometimes it is food, sometimes it is inches and sometimes it is just your body adjusting.

If you are not losing weight then maybe it is time to remeasure yourself. You do measure yourself regularly don’t you? All you need to do is measure in inches or centimeters around your neck, chest, hips, waist, upper leg, calves, upper arm and forearm. Of course also record your weight as that is a nice thing to relate to your measurements.

This measuring does two things, it lets you know when you are losing inches around your hips or waist and also lets you know if you are gaining muscle and muscle tone in the other parts of your body. You can either keep this on paper or if you have Microsoft Excel or something similar you can put your measurements in a spreadsheet and then you can refer to your gains and losses over time and see how the different times of year affect your size.