Bill Romanowski is a 4-time Super Bowl champion who spent years on the field and in the training rooms working out and eating right so that he could compete against and triumph over some of football’s most elite and strong athletes. As a linebacker who played an unprecedented 243 consecutive games, he knows a thing or two about nutrition. So he teamed up with a few of his favorite scientists, researchers and nutritionists and developed his own company and line of dietary supplements called Nutrition 53.
Nutrition 53 contains a small, but quality, line of three different health products. There is the Lean1, which is designed to help you create lean muscle mass and control your hunger, Neuro1, a supplement that improves mental acuity and focus and Sleep1, a product that helps you get to sleep fast and stay asleep so you wake up feeling refreshed.
Personal Trainer: Cooking is one of the latest innovations by game giant, Nintendo. Featuring your own private chef, via the hand-held Nintendo DS system, you’ll be walked though almost 250 recipes from around the world. It’s kind of like having your favorite chef from The Food Network to interact with and instruct how to prepare a sumptuous meal from your own kitchen.
Personal Trainer: Cooking has a few super cool features that deserve to be highlighted.
- Create Your Own Shopping List: As you browse though the recipes, you can select and then store the ingredients you’ll need to purchase from the grocery store on your DS. Just take your DS with you and instantly access your shopping list.
Many things can make you fat. Watching TV is one of them. But it’s not just watching the boob tube that will make you rotund. Now you can order pizza right from the screen!
“Honey, will you turn on the TV and order us a pizza?”
I bet those are words you would have never thought to put together. But now that a deal has been struck between TiVo and Domino’s Pizza, you may hear them soon. This comes from the press release that accompanied the announcement that you will be able to order pizza through your TiVo box:
“We are confident that teaming with TiVo on this novel, easy, and convenient way to order pizza right from the TV will be very well received by our customers,” says Rob Weisberg, vice president of precision and print marketing at Domino’s Pizza.
“This is the first step in the future of customer interactions with the brands they seek to engage with and buy from. This is the first time in history that the ‘on-demand’ generation will be able to fully experience couch commerce by ordering pizza directly through their television set.“
Strike one up for convenience. I’m not going to pretend this is altogether bad. But what’s next? A remote control fork programmed to feed you?
For those of you who are in desperate search for finding a healthy reason to drink your favorite martini or cosmo, you can call off your search. A solution has been found.
By now, most of us have heard about the acai berry - the wonder fruit that comes from that Amazon Rain Forest. From supplements to powders to smoothies, this new Super Food is everywhere. And now you can enjoy it as an evening cocktail.
VeeV, a new 60-proof liqueur is an infusion of acai berries and some other tropical fruits. Apparently, it’s not too sugary-sweet and you can rationalize the $35 a bottle price tag in knowing that $1 of each bottle sold goes to the Sambazon Sustainable Acai Project, which works to protect the Amazon environment during acai harvesting.
This holiday season impress your party guests with a new acai-infused cocktail and when you raise your glasses and drink to your health, know that you are doing just that. Here’s the VeeV Acai Cosmo recipe.
We were as excited as everyone else to get our hands on the new Jillian Michaels for the Nintendo Wii- Fitness Ultimatum 2009. It seems anything Jillian touches turns to fitness gold. We’re huge fans of hers, and have always had nothing but nice things to say about her many other products. There’s no way to know how hands-on she was in the development of the game, if the developers rushed the job or if they did much consumer testing, either way, it doesn’t seem like much attention on any of those accounts.
When I launched the game, I was immediately struck by the graphics. That’s one of the most impressive characteristics of the Wii games. But this? Reminded me of the Duck Hunt days. Very grainy, unrefined images that didn’t reflect the quality we’ve come to expect from the Wii. We don’t want you to just take our word for it, hear the comments left on the review. “The graphics are horrible. The screen hardly moves at all when you’re exercising… you basically get to watch your avatar run/kayak/bounce in place just like you,” said Gin. Kurt agreed, “Graphics are on par with Atari I played as a kid.”
Oprah revealed that her newest favorite thing is the Amazon Kindle, a revolutionary digital reading device than can download and store up to 200 books, magazines and newspapers. Using wireless technology similar to a cell phone, the Kindle does not need an Internet connection. For a cost of about $10, you can download your choice of more than 185,000 books, hundreds of magazines, newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, and access more than 850 blogs.
The Kindle weighs about 10 oz. and fits in the palm of your hand. Being light-weight, it’s small enough and convenient to take just about anywhere. If you’ve needed a reason to catch up on the latest diet books, keep your favorite cookbook at the tips of your fingers, or never miss an issue of your favorite health magazine, the Kindle is worthy of being one of your new favorite things. Learn more about the Amazon Kindle.
Check out this list of 20 popular books in the diet and weight loss category, all available for the Amazon Kindle.
1. Weight Watchers Diet Plan
2. Abs Diet for Women
3. YOU: On a Diet
If Oprah likes it, the public generally wants her. Her annual “Favorite Things” episodes have become something of a legend. On those shows she always reveals the latest candle, book, clothing, shoes, appliances and more that she just can’t seem to live without. Her hysterical audience squeals as they learn each new thing they’ll be taking home.
Today, she unveiled the new tech gadget that she says is “the wave of the future.” It’s the Amazon Kindle, a digital reading device that uses revolutionary technology called electronic paper. The hand-held device is incredibly light weight (10.3 oz.) and the 6″ screen reads as crisp as reading a book or newspaper.
Maybe you have already seen this latest device in fitness technology, but for those of who haven’t, the FitBit is a small device that clips onto your clothing and tracks how much (or how little) you move during the day. As anticipation ramps for its release, the FitBit seems to be getting bigger, however, not in size, but in popularity. The FitBit just recently received a cool 2 million dollars in venture capitol funding. Not bad for a device that hasn’t even started clocking calories burned on people. The FitBit isn’t due for release until late 2008/early 2009.
During the month of October you’ll find everything from soup cans to tennis shoes dyed pink all in the name of Breast Cancer Awareness. It’s an important cause, as breast cancer will be a diagnosis heard by one in eight women.
Eating a healthy diet and staying physically fit are two of the most important ways your body can fight to prevent breast cancer. Here are 10 products that are blushing pink that you can take to the gym, and proceeds will go to support breast cancer causes.
1. Susan G. Komen Nintendo DS - You can use this hand-held video game to run the My Weight Loss Coach “game.” It acts as a virtual fitness coach, with a built-in pedometer, measures progress with graphs and daily reminders and advice.
2. Koss “for the Cure” SportsBud Ear Phones - The right tunes jamming in your ears is often all the motivation you need to get moving in the gym. Plug-in with these hot pink ear buds.
3. MioPINK Heart Rate Monitor Watch with Calorie Burn Calculation - Be sure you’re getting the most effective workout possible, by watching your heart rate and monitoring the total calories burned while exercising.
These days, it seems like everything is being touched and altered by the technology wave. And when it comes to staying fit, the technology breakthrough’s have been no short of awesome. It used to be that the only way to count calories was to write down what you ate, consult your pocked-sized paperback calorie-counting book and whip out your handy-dandy calculator.
Those days are long gone, thanks to tiny computerized devices like the Fitbit Tracker, a 2-inch clip that fastens to your clothing and measures how many calories you are burning during the day. It even counts your caloric expenditure while you sleep. I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit intrigued by what my metabolism is up to while I snooze.
The FitBit is a wireless tracker that contains the same kind of motion sensors as the Wii Fit games. It measures your activity similar to a pedometer, but it also measures the intensity of your workouts or any other activity- saying walking to your car.
In a complex sequence of calculations that would befuddle our high school calculus teachers, the Fitbit immediately churns out our caloric burn. When you are within 25-50 feet of the Fitbit base station, your personal data will automatically sync to the FitBit website. From there, you can log what you ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner and see for yourself how well you did with keeping your calories under, or if it is remaining equal to your energy output.
One common thread that has been revealed to us through thousands of diet research studies is that keeping a food log is a surefire way to stay on top of your weight goals. The Fitbit takes the daily food diary one step further by also calculating how many calories you’ve burned in an hour or a complete day. It makes you 100% accountable for every step you walk and every bite of food that passes over your lips. And we all know that numbers don’t lie.
My only concern with the FitBit Tracker is the potential that monitoring your calorie input and output would become a mild obsession. The information is so immediately available that you might be interrupting meetings, waking up at 3:45 a.m. and moving in place in the line at the post office just to see how you’re doing. And I guess if you start planning your outfits around your new Fitbit accessory, then that might be a sign too to that you need to cool it a bit.
The Fitbit is a fun new gadget that can really serve as an educational tool for how our bodies process and metabolize energy. If you can’t seem to figure out why you aren’t losing weight, using a device like the Fitbit will help to shed some light on what it is that you’re doing or not doing to lose weight.
Here is the a complete review of the Fitbit Tracker.
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