In the Health app, categories connected to MyFitnessPal will be populated as soon as you start adding foods to your diary. Similarly, MyFitnessPal will be able to read data stored in the Health app, which enables the app to fetch information about values it can’t track on its own such as blood glucose, blood pressure, workouts, or cycling distance. Once enabled in the Sharing settings, MyFitnessPal will be able to save nutrition data for calcium, carbohydrates, dietary calories, fiber, and other data currently supported by the app when logging foods. Apple has built a bridge for nutrition values, vitals, sleep analysis, body measurements, and other health data, hoping to bring consistency and a unified data layer to health and fitness apps for iOS. Health integration is available in the latest version of MyFitnessPal and it’s based on HealthKit, a new framework that allows third-party apps to save fitness and health-related data into a unified dashboard – the Health app – that other apps can access to read data. The app is one of the most popular food tracking utilities on the App Store, and it ships with a built-in database containing millions of foods and meals, plus a barcode scanner to easily add new foods to your meal diary. I will save the details and full backstory for a dedicated article, but, in short, since June I’ve been saving everything I eat and drink into MyFitnessPal. I started using MyFitnessPal earlier this year when I realized that I needed to get back in shape after cancer treatments I went through in 2012. I’ve been testing the updated MyFitnessPal, and I believe that Health integration has the potential to be a great way to let the app integrate with other services on iOS 8. Popular food tracker and calorie counter MyFitnessPal, available for free on the iPhone, iPad, web, and other platforms, has today introduced an update for iOS 8 users that adds support for Apple’s new Health app.