Social Influence as a Driver of Engagement in a Web-Based Health Intervention

MeYou Health's first scientific paper is published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research—

http://www.jmir.org/2012/1/e36/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JMedInternetRes+%28Journal+of+Medical+Internet+Research+%28atom%29%29

Taking on small challenges can enrich lives

A friend on Facebook suggested David Statler check out a website that might appeal to his fitness and wellness interests.

MeYouHealth's Daily Challenge program intrigued him. If he signed up - for free - he'd get a daily email suggesting one small thing he could do to improve his well-being. "It didn't seem overly complicated," he said. "The challenges were simple, not overly done."

http://www.dailymail.com/foodandliving/201201270059

Make Healthy Changes Stick

Ready to commit to a healthier lifestyle but don't know where to start? Sign up for the Daily Challenge web app (no smartphone needed!). Every day at 7 a.m. you'll be emailed a specific task, along with how to do it, and why it will boost your health... 

Read the full mention in the March 2012 print edition of Woman's Day, page 26.

Daily Challenge provides tips for healthy living

Daily Challenge is a free web game that sends you an e-mail each morning with a fun challenge. These challenges are small, attainable action related to healthy living that you can do within 24 hours.

Don't worry these challenges aren't always exercise goals. You may take on a stress relieving task or a healthy food goal.

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/191601/126/Todays-Web-Report-A-challenge-a-day-toward-a-healthier-life

Louisville man completes year of daily challenges

[Michael Duerr] said the MeYou Health website is a great opportunity for people who want to set daily goals and reach them with support from others. He said his toughest challenges so far have involved dealing with issues from his past. There are tracks on the website where you can focus on certain areas like that. Self-esteem or time management or self improvement are just some of the areas you can focus on, Duerr said.

http://www.thedailytimes.com/Blount_Life/story/Louisville-man-completes-year-of-daily-challenges-id-019873 

Social Games For Health Behavior Modification

[General Manager Chris] Cartter works for a Boston company called MeYou Health, which is cranking out these well-being apps for the iPhone. Largely the games use a concept of small action--little by little a specific goal is approached.

http://www.science20.com/eye_brainstorm/social_games_health_behavior_modification-86155

Start 2012 on the right foot

MeYouHealth, which has launched a new app, the "Anti-resolution revolution," (www.antiresolution.com) recommends, for example, that each day you trade a sugar-sweetened beverage for a no-sugar-added juice or low-fat milk. "One-time actions can become pathways to lifelong habits," its literature urges.

http://www.dailypress.com/health/dp-fea-cp-resolutions-0108-20120107,0,4104529.story

Ten Small Actions for Winter Wellness

MeYou Health Social Media Manager Alicia Benjamin guest blogs with some ideas of small actions to help improve winter wellness—

Winter doesn’t have to zap your energy or pit you against this season’s new hard-to-beat bug. Stay well all winter long by doing the ten small healthy actions listed below. Bonus: these small actions only take a few minutes, or seconds, to do. ...

http://www.greenwala.com/channels/family-go-green/blog/19387-Ten-Small-Actions-for-Winter-Wellness

3 Tactics To Really Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick

If you’re having trouble thinking of some specific actionable items for your vague goals, check out anti-resolution from MeYouHealth. It’s a simple web app that’ll present you with some real, actionable items after you’ve selected your vague goal.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-tactics-years-resolutions-stick/

6 Best Health Apps for iPhone

Munch-5-a-Day will let you track your fruit and vegetable consumption throughout the day. This user-friendly application with discrete graphics is especially optimized for iPhone 4's retina display. Besides letting you set goals for a maximum of 12 portions a day, it also helps to achieve the goal by means of the Goal bar and mystery badges as rewards.

http://www.techshout.com/features/2012/02/health-app-for-iphone/#

An App a Day...

Monumental  (FREE) Make the stairs fun with this app, which tracks your ascent. Log enough elevation and you'll summit the Leaning Tower of Pisa (296 steps) or the Statue of Liberty (364 steps). Favorite feature: Track, then best, your personal records.

Boston Magazine, January 2012 print edition, page 59

Sick of Useless Resolutions? Use This App

It's common knowledge by now that most resolutions fall by the wayside come February and March, but one thing that can help make your goals a reality is working towards small, easily attainable challenges.

That's where the Anti-Resolution App, from MeYou Health, can assist. I love this simple tool for making healthy changes that will stick rather than committing to a lofty goal.

http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/daily-dose/make-resolutions-stick

Scale Reality & New Year Goals

Being part of the Daily Challenge from the folks at Me You Health for the past year has been a great help in that area!  Every day they give one small task that we can all do to help create a healthier life.  It’s really helped reinforce the me the importance of focusing on taking small steps rather than looking at the big picture and getting overwhelmed.

http://www.thedailymel.com/2011/12/29/scale-reality-new-year-goals/

Use These App Finds to Conquer Your New Year’s Resolutions

App: Monumental. Believe it or not, even climbing the stairs to your 4th-floor walk-up studio can be loads of fun. OK, maybe not loads, but you CAN turn the stairs into a game with the free Monumental app. You’ll explore the monuments of the world while climbing the stairs at your office building or parking garage. As you climb real stairs you’ll also climb virtual stairs towards the top of Mount Olympus or the Statue of Liberty.

http://mygloss.com/geek/applications/use-these-app-finds-to-conquer-your-new-years-resolutions/

No need to pay for trainer, nutritionist

Lou Perseghin has been using a free app called Daily Challenge for a year. ...

Daily Challenge promotes overall health, fitness and emotional well-being. During the past year, Perseghin's started doing stress-relieving exercises at his computer, adding skim milk instead of cream to his coffee, even calling friends he hasn't spoken to for a while.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/consumer/save_with_6abc&id=8473997