App of the Week – Hi.Q Health App

We all do it. The New Year’s resolution to lose twenty pounds. The promise to get in shape this year, eat better, smarter and get healthy. Not many of us succeed. We need some help. That’s why HiQ is the App of the Week

Hi.Q is an inquisitive app with 10,000 questions covering 300 topics about health and fitness. It is designed to get you healthy by educating you. To start using the app you answer 30 preliminary questions that cover your basic nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle. As you become accustomed to it you can start taking quizzes on the topic of the day. You can also examine more niche subjects like the Paleo diet, heart disease, or running.

With the frightening obesity epidemic among African-Americans we really need to improve our eating habits. We need to become more aware of what we are doing to ourselves. African-Americans consume more fast food than any other race. Top that with our traditional ethnic diet and we have a problem.

Many people, including black people, are focused on getting healthy. The popularity of health and fitness apps is up 87 percent compared to other app categories.  And do we need to talk about the billions of dollars spent on exercise equipment that ends up in the garage?  Or at a garage sale.  But for black people the trick has to be education. It can be hard if we don’t know, or get bad information on how to go about getting healthy, more active and losing weight.  For example, all those diet fads that say you can lose twenty pounds in ten days. Hi.Q attempts to give users all the best information without the tedious Google Search.

With the Hi.Q app you will find both the questions and their answers are vetted by health and fitness professionals like Harvard Med School physician Dr. James Colbert and U.S. Olympic Team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Scott Hacker. Most answers link back to scientific studies or the articles so you can learn more about the topic.

The Hi.Q quiz app can be fun. When you complete a quiz you’re given a score. A high score earns you status and titles such as “Elite.” Other titles included “Health Guru” or “Health Pioneer.” You can share this with your social media friends or diet buddy.

The social media aspect of the app keeps you interested and connected with other users. Hi.Q CEO and co-founder Munjal Shah created the title and scoring system to validate user credentials. So when a user claims he or she is an expert on this topic you can check their scores and see for yourself.

HiQ is a fun and useful tool. But the real benefit is what you get out of your increased knowledge. And for African-Americans knowledge is the way to a better more healthy life. Hi.Q can help us learn and understand the benefits of daily exercise and proper diet.

Hi.Q is free and currently available only on Apple.