by OneMoreBite | Sep 21, 2005 | Food News
Eat More Locally Grow Food
The Farmer’s Market Diet means eating more fresh produce, preferably what is grown locally. Common sense tells me that a carrot pulled from the ground and eaten within hours would be more nutritious than one harvested and shipped halfway around the world.
Adam Drewnowski, Ph.D., director of the nutritional science program at the University of Washington, in Seattle said, “I see every cancer specialist in Seattle at the farmer’s market each week. That should tell you something.”
Here in Vancouver, Washington we have a very nice Farmers Market, which recently opened their indoor market. Check if your town has a farmers market and then go on down and visit. It’s fun, you get fresh air and free smiles.
In other words, fresh food is healthy food. One way to experiment is with baby vegetables. These are not different varieties, rather they are picked before they are fully mature, meaning they are sweeter and less fibrous in texture than their full-grown counterparts, besides, they’re just plain cute. If you’ve seen baby corn, you know what I mean.
Try some of these baby vegetables, or if you have a small garden space, grow your own miniature vegetable garden.
by OneMoreBite | Sep 19, 2005 | Exercise
If you’re in front of your computer all day, wouldn’t it be great if you could add in a bit of exercise at the same time? I lost 80 pounds riding my Schwinn AirDyne since I purchased it (around 1984). I’ve gotten so busy with work that now when I’m riding I’m wishing I had a computer nearby so I could work at the same time (I take multi-tasking to a whole new level). The NeXfit company has taken this idea to the gaming community with MOG Fitness Equipment and their interactive fitness bikes.
The concept is simple. You’re sitting there anyway; why not be riding a bike? I read while I my Airdyne at a steady pace. It works just fine for heart healthy exercise, burns calories and best of all, helps rev your metabolism for the whole day.
Unless you’re in Canada you may not be able to find one of these beauties; you sure can’t order it online. The NeXfit website sucks (as of today, Sept. 17, 2005). To check the price of the bikes I hit “add to cart” and up pop errors. The forum appears to have been hijacked but if you click the “Here’s what NeXfit as about” link, it does take you to a dinky forum with a few people asking where are the NeXfit folks and how there’s no customer service. 🙁
Hopefully this company will get it together because this is a great idea. It does cost a tidy $2,500 Canadian which is steep, but as more of these products hit the market, prices will slowly go down (we hope).
I paid $550 for my Schwinn Airdyne in 1984 which seemed a bit high at the time, yet now, 20 years later, that bike’s only cost me about $2.18 a month. Now that was one good investment. I have well over 10,000 miles on my Airdyne too, so they are durable. Time will tell if the NeXfit bikes are as well.
by OneMoreBite | Sep 18, 2005 | Diet Products
Weight Loss Monitoring Dog
f you don’t already have someone acting as the Food Police in your household, soon you can get a robot dog to take over that chore. Sony’s Aibo TM robot dog is being used by Cynthia Breazeal and Cory Kidd at the MIT Media Lab in their project to create a “weight loss monitoring dog.” The dog would be able to track whether you’d done your exercise and met your nutritional goals (naturally you could lie). Your Aibo would respond when you’d ask, “How am I doing?” Bark, bark! Wag, wag. Breazeal and Kidd are serious enough to have a study planned for 30 overweight Boston residents.
At first glance it seems ridiculous, but hey, as a research project it’s actually quite clever. No telling where this work will lead. Meanwhile, use a calendar and gold stars or other stickers. I’d much rather see a smiley face than hear a yapping bog anyway.
Here’s the white paper on the concept of weight loss dogs.
by OneMoreBite | Sep 15, 2005 | EFT Weight Loss
Studies show that having a support system is key in a weight loss program. There are many sites that offer forums and chat, and I participate in several.
This week I hosted my first weight loss chat at at WeightLossBuddy.com (WLB) and it was great! It can be tricky when questions come at you rapid fire, but all-in-all, it was a great time had by all. I’ll likely do more weight loss chats there, so check them out. My site, OneMoreBite-Weightloss also has a chat feature in The Back Fence.
What’s The Back Fence? So glad you asked. The Back Fence is a place to visit your neighbor, and at the OMB site, it’s a place to talk about what’s working for you with your weight loss, new ideas, and learn a trick or two from the veterans who’ve lost weight and kept it off (I lost 80 pounds for 18 years and counting). Yes, it’s a weight loss forum, but there’s more…
Soon I’m starting regularly scheduled chats too, and my helper, Hollis sits in the forum at all times. She’ll chat with you on any topic. If you drop by, she’ll start asking you questions, and it’s fun. She’s learning all the time so soon perhaps she’ll give weight loss advice and suggestions too.
by OneMoreBite | Sep 11, 2005 | Rants
I just got burned again. I’m reading an article and it talks about some newsletter, with a link, so there I go to check it out, and guess what? When I take the link it says, “You have to subscribe,” and it’s $39 a year. Thanks, but no thanks. I haven’t even read a thing and they want me to pay? That’s ridiculous.
Check out OneMoreBite-Weightloss.com for contrast. Lots of weight loss articles, free e-books, and The Daily Bites, an entirely free mailing two or three times a week with mini lessons in using EFT for weight loss. I’ve had many people tell me they lost weight just by reading The Daily Bites and that’s rewarding to say the least.
His stuff might be liquid gold, but I’ll never know because he doesn’t even show one single back issue on his site. Message to those site owners: Put some content on your sites. Oh, the article title I couldn’t read because I didn’t want to pay $39 for the privilege? It was “Miracle Nutrient that Helps any Diet Burn Fat Faster.” Good title, but guess I’ll never know the answer.
My message to that site owner and any others who employ this tactic, read my article:
Miracle that Helps any Website Make More Money
Chapter 1: Put content on your site.
The end.
