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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Now Practice Safe Fruit: Prophylactic for Bananas

This just in from the I've Seen it all Now Department: A protective sleeve for bananas called the Banana Bunker. I saw this in The Daily Candy, an ultra cool food blog, natch.

Everyone knows the pesky problem of toting bananas in your backpack; they get squished and squashed and frankly, are no fun to eat when smeared everywhere, so this genius inventor, Paul Stremple, Artist/Inventor/Architect decided something must be done, and voila! Instead better mousetrap.

The Banana Bunker looks just like a ... well a .... banana? Yep, that's right. It's protective gear for that favorite of fruits: BananaBunker.com

This is sure to become an instant cult favorite.

Posted by OneMoreBite-Weightloss on Thursday, January 27, 2005

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Cashews Can be Toxic!

Don't Touch that Cashew! The skin of a cashew is highly caustic and can blister the skin, so the nut meats must be carefully removed from the skin before being touched or eaten. This explains why cashews can be so expensive, and it also may explain why some people experience "fever blisters," when eating them.

Posted by OneMoreBite-Weightloss on Tuesday, January 25, 2005

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Video Games for Exercise Catching On

News reports are coming in fast and furious about all the new video games that get people up and moving. I've talked about it here in The Slimming Pool often:

Video Game That Causes people to Lose Weight, January 2004 ... When the game involves bodily movement, that's how. Today I came across Tanya Jessen's story and how she eventually lost 95 pounds playing DDR. ...

Why Exercise Takes so Long to Show Results, February 2004 ... I just started using our new DDR (Dance, Dance, Revolution) game and I love it...

Yourself!Fitness Fitness Comes to the Home Computer, Jan 2005 ... You've heard of DDR (Dance, Dance, Revolution), and now there is Yourself!Fitness, developed by a Portland, Oregon company and now available for the PC

New Year New You, January 2004 (obviously I was quite smitten with this whole thing early last year!) ... The game is called DDR, Dance, Dance, Revolution and it involves a vinyl platform on the floor in front of you with squares, X's and Triangles

New additions include the Golf Launchpad, which looks like it would be most fun if you set up a projector like they do in the store. You swing, you want to glance up and see your shot, not have to rush over to your computer screen. I do think golfers will love this; being able to practice that shot while you're supposedly working. There's just nothing better! :

This entry is a bit odd: Kilowatt SPORT. The videos are not exciting, some are just talking heads, but this is probably one you'd need to experience in person. If nothing else playing while standing up and moving about a bit is certainly better than sitting in a chair. Anytime you get your muscles moving and the blood pumping, it's a good thing.

All of these games and more to come are sure to help enormously with the obesity problem. Get yourself to a video arcade and check this stuff out! Also, if you think these games are expensive, consider the cost of a visit to the doctor or open heart surgery. That is expensive.

Posted by OneMoreBite-Weightloss on Monday, January 10, 2005

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Thursday, January 06, 2005

Yourself!Fitness - Fitness Comes to the Home Computer

You've heard of DDR (Dance, Dance, Revolution), and now there is Yourself!Fitness, developed by a Portland, Oregon company and now available for the PC (plus game consoles such as XBox and PlayStation). Here is a link to the XBox site's review of Yourself!Fitness which is an excellent overview.

After checking it out, pop on over to the Yourself!Fitness forum and check in with people using the game.

Both excellent ways to get fit in the comfort of your own home. Your kids will love these too. You might just find yourself having to fight for time to use them actually!

Posted by OneMoreBite-Weightloss on Thursday, January 06, 2005

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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Women More Prone to Eating Disorders Says Japanese Study

Japanese researchers at Hiroyshima University reported that women are 10 times more likely than men to develop anorexia and bulimia. This conclusion was drawn after their rather questionable study which compared brain scans by MRI showing the differing responses of men and women when shown unpleasant words describing body parts versus neutral words.

Well duh! Take any group of women, show them unpleasant words describing body image and you'll have an unhappy group of women, but do the same with a group of men and you'll have a bored group of men asking if they can change the channel.

Men would probably be laughing and slapping each other on the back while women would be having unpleasant memories of past experiences of their own or others they'd witnessed. This might be a good test of empathy but it is not indicative of whether women would develop an eating disorder! How on earth they drew that conclusion is beyond me. Probably all men researchers, I'll bet.

Look in any magazine, any TV show and nearly any movie and you'll see women presented at their most attractive when they are thin and perfect, while men simply do not have the same stringent physical requirements to be considered highly desirable.

Case in point: Donald Trump. No one would even date that man if he worked in a warehouse and carried a lunch pail, believe me. That man's only attraction is cold cash.

Most women grow up surrounded with negative associations and troubling body image issues by virtue of our society while men do not suffer the same indignities. You cannot draw any conclusions based on this ridiculous study except that the researchers were too lazy to put together an unbiased study in the first place.

If the study had been about body imagine itself, it would have made sense, but the conclusion about eating disorders is a leap at best.

Posted by OneMoreBite-Weightloss on Wednesday, January 05, 2005

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