Where Our Salt Comes From: Top 10 Foods

Where Our Salt Comes From: Top 10 Foods

The Centers for Disease Control has come out with a list of the top 10 “salt culprits” in our diet. You might be surprised to learn that the number one food source is bread!
Even I went “Hunh” … I wasn’t expecting that … Here’s the list of the top ten salty foods:

1. bread and dinner rolls
2. cold cuts and cured meat
3. pizza
4. poultry
5. soups
6. sandwiches
7. cheese
8. pasta dishes
9. meat dishes
10. snacks like potato chips and pretzels

The CDC also said the average American consumes 3,266 milligrams of salt daily and that’s before we pick up the salt shakers on the dinner table. Our goal should be no more than 2,300 milligrams a day and, if you are over 51, or have high blood pressure or diabetes, it should be no more than 1,500 milligrams.
One in three adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure, which can lead to issues like heart disease and stroke. We really should be paying attention here. So how do we cut down on salt intake? Easy …
Limit starches to no more than four servings a day. You don’t need the starch anyway; it has relatively few nutrients, but you knew that already.
Increase fruits and veggies. Sub out starches for something healthier; produce has zero salt, lots of vitamins and minerals, and is quite tasty.
Ditch the salt shaker. My parents took the salt shaker off the table in the 1970s and I’ve never looked back. Salt is an integral part of cooking and taste, but you don’t need to add a lot to get good flavor and you don’t need it on the table.
Cook from scratch. You will always add less sugar, fat, and salt to a recipe than a commercial food manufacturer will. They doctor up ingredients with palate-pumping substances so we don’t realize we’re eating crap. The more you cook from scratch, the healthier your diet will be overall.
Start reading labels. Salt sneaks up on you; it’s in all kinds of things you wouldn’t think of, from pasta sauce to ice cream. Read the labels to make sure you’re within safe limits for you.
Consider these easy changes and live a better life. Do you check your salt intake? Do you read labels but glance over the salt? What’s your favorite salty treat?
Cheers,
Lisa

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 We as a country eat way too much bread and that is why its number one on the list.

Brian Knowles  

Move Over H2O! Drink Coconut Water for Exercise Recovery!

Move Over H₂0! Drink Coconut Water for Exercise Recovery

Your body needs water, particularly when you break a sweat. But you don’t need to sip from the tap to satisfy your hydration replenishment needs, especially if you’re looking for something tasty and nourishing.
Instead, look to coconut water for exercise recovery. Why? A few small studies by researchers in Malaysia suggest that coconut water can rehydrate the body a little better than plain water, reports the LA Times. Read on to find out more.

• Why coconut water for exercise recovery?
• Where does coconut water come from?
• How is PHENOM™ different?

Why coconut water for exercise recovery?
In about one hour of physical exercise, the body can lose up to 3 quarts of water through perspiration. Therefore, you can’t deny your body needs water after a workout, and coconut water is about 95% water. Plus, some research has found coconut water can rehydrate better than water.
How? Electrolytes in coconut water facilitate the body’s water uptake. And did you know coconut water is a natural isotonic beverage with the same level of electrolytic balance as we have in our blood? Besides water, coconut water contains the following electrolytes:

• Sodium
• Potassium
• Magnesium
• Calcium
• Phosphate

It also has small amounts of essential amino acids. Because of its composition that helps replenish the minerals and electrolytes lost in sweat, coconut water has become a popular, natural alternative to sports drinks for exercise recovery.
In fact, compared to sports drinks coconut water contains:

• More potassium (equivalent to about two bananas’ worth)
• More chloride
• Natural sugars, instead of altered sugars

However, the benefits of coconut water are nothing new; people who live where coconut palms grow have long-sipped coconut water.


Where does coconut water come from?
It’s name gives away its origin somewhat, but specifically, coconut water is the juice found in young, green coconuts. Coconut water differs from coconut milk in that it’s the liquid that comes straight out of a cracked coconut; coconut milk, on the other hand, is a thick liquid made by extracting high-fat, grated, mature coconut meat.
Coconuts are the fruit of the coconut palm, native to Malaysia, Polynesia, and southern Asia. Because of the coconut’s ability to drift across the sea, coconut palms are also prolific in South America, India, the Pacific Islands, Hawaii, and Florida.
And while coconut water has been enjoyed for centuries by natives, a switch to PHENOM™ coconut water will prove beneficial.


How is PHENOM™ coconut water better for exercise recovery?
The #1 reasons consumers are reluctant to try coconut water is the belief that it will taste like coconut. In actuality, coconut water doesn’t taste like coconut at all, rather it has a refreshing, mildly sweet flavor, and doesn’t taste anything like coconut.
Still worried about the taste? The flavor experts at PepsiCo have come up with delicious, natural flavors that are part of the PHENOM™ coconut water line. Flavors include Pineapple Punch, Lemon Mojito, Orange Guava Passion, and others. Each variety is formulated with 100% natural coconut water.
The PHENOM™ line takes things further thanks to the nutrition experts from GNC. Previous studies conducted on other GNC products were analyzed to determine which key ingredients should be added to provide that extra exercise recovery “boost” – such as antioxidants, electrolytes, caffeine, and more – to carefully craft the most enhanced coconut water.
The 7 different varieties are in 4 distinct families to be tailored to your unique needs:

1. PHENOM™ Hydro – simply pure, natural, and unflavored
2. PHENOM™ Mega V (3 flavors) – contains electrolytes and multivitamins
3. PHENOM™ Antiox – contains electrolytes, multivitamins, and Vitamin C
4. PHENOM™ Energy (2 flavors) – contains electrolytes, multivitamins, and energizing ingredients

Next time you break a sweat, which PHENOM™ coconut water variety will you grab for exercise recovery?

http://phenomwater.com/move-over-h20-drink-coconut-water-for-exercise-recovery

Group Nutrition Sessions!

Hey Guys and Gals!

Just a quick FYI, keep your eyes open for the Group Nutrition Schedule for the month of March. We will now be offering multiple classes for those of you with super busy schedules! Also, feel free to bring a family member or a friends to the Group Nutrition Classes. The more the merrier!!

Joe

New Guidelines Planned on School Vending Machines

WASHINGTON — The government’s attempt to reduce childhood obesity is moving from the school cafeteria to the vending machines.

The Obama administration is working on setting nutritional standards for foods that children can buy outside the cafeteria. With students eating 19 percent to 50 percent of their daily food at school, the administration says it wants to ensure that what they eat contributes to good health and smaller waistlines. The proposed rules are expected within the next few weeks.

Efforts to restrict the food that schoolchildren eat outside the lunchroom have long been controversial.

Representatives of the food and beverage industries argue that many of their products contribute to good nutrition and should not be banned. Schools say that overly restrictive rules, which could include banning the candy sold for school fund-raisers, risk the loss of substantial revenue that helps pay for sports, music and arts programs. A study by the National Academy of Sciences estimates that about $2.3 billion worth of snack foods and beverages are sold annually in schools nationwide.

Nutritionists say that school vending machines stocked with potato chips, cookies and sugary soft drinks contribute to childhood obesity, which has more than tripled in the past 30 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that about one in every five children are obese.

No details of the proposed guidelines have been released, but health advocates and snack food and soft drink industry representatives predict that the rules will be similar to those for the government’s school lunch program, which reduced amounts of sugar, salt and fat.

Those rules set off a fight between parents and health advocates on one side, who praised the standards, and the food industry, which argued that some of the proposals went too far. Members of Congress stepped in to block the administration from limiting the amount of potatoes children could be served and to allow schools to continue to count tomato paste on a pizza as a serving of vegetables.

Nancy Huehnergarth, executive director of the New York State Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Alliance in Millwood, N.Y., said she expected a similar fight over the vending machine rules.

“I think the food and beverage industry is going to fight tooth and nail over these rules,” Ms. Huehnergarth said.

But representatives of the food and beverage industry say they generally support selling healthier snacks and drinks in schools.

“But we are a little concerned that they might make the rules too stringent,” said James A. McCarthy, president of the Snack Food Association, a trade group in Washington.

Mr. McCarthy said the industry supported nutritional snacks and was working with the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, headed by the former president, in an initiative called the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to establish voluntary guidelines for healthier foods in schools.

The foods include baked rather than fried potato chips, dry-roasted nuts and low-sodium pretzels, Mr. McCarthy said.

Christopher Gindlesperger, director of communications for the American Beverage Association, whose members include Coca-Cola and Pepsi, said his industry had also worked with schools to reduce or eliminate sugary drinks and replace them with healthier alternatives.

“Our members have voluntarily reduced the calories in drinks shipped to schools by 88 percent and stopped offering full-calorie soft drinks in school vending machines,” Mr. Gindlesperger said.

But a study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine released this month shows that despite industry efforts and those of others, snacking behavior among children remains largely unchanged. One reason is that healthier snacks were being offered alongside less nutritious offerings.

Between 2006 and 2010, the study found, about half of the schools had vending machines, stores and cafeterias that offered unhealthy foods.

The availability of high-fat foods in schools followed regional patterns. In the South, where rates of childhood obesity are the highest, less nutritious food was more prevalent. In the West, where childhood obesity rates are lower, high-fat food was not as common, the study found.

Health advocates say the study points to the need for national standards.

Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, gave the food industry credit for trying to reduce sugary drinks and fatty snacks, but said the voluntary guidelines did not go far enough.

“What we have is a fragmented system where some schools do a good job of limiting access to junk food and others don’t,” she said. “We need a national standard that ensures that all schools meet some minimum guidelines.”

Still, some school districts question whether students would buy healthy foods offered in vending machines and school stores. Frequently vending machines with healthy alternative snacks are ignored, and children bring snacks from home or buy them at local stores off-campus during lunch periods. Roger Kipp, food service director for the Norwood school district in Ohio, said children could be persuaded to eat healthy foods and schools could still make a profit.

Two years ago, Mr. Kipp eliminated vending machines and school stores in his district and replaced them with an area in the lunchroom where they could buy wraps, fruit or yogurt. Children ate better, and the schools made some money.

“It took a while, but it caught on,” Mr. Kipp said. “You have to give the kids time. You can’t replace 16 years of bad eating habits overnight.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/us/politics/new-rules-planned-on-school-vending-machines.html?_r=1&ref=nutrition

This is a good article. The only problem is just because you have better food in schools does not mean kids will eat it. The best way to combat nutrition is at home where they eat most of their meals. It is a good start thought. What do you think?

Brian Knowles

Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body

When ticking off the benefits of physical activity, few of us would include intracellular housecleaning. But a new study suggests that the ability of exercise to speed the removal of garbage from inside our body’s cells may be one of its most valuable, if least visible, effects.

In the new research, which was published last month in Nature, scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas gathered two groups of mice. One set was normal, with a finely tuned cellular scrubbing system. The other had been bred to have a blunted cleaning system.

It’s long been known that cells accumulate flotsam from the wear and tear of everyday living. Broken or misshapen proteins, shreds of cellular membranes, invasive viruses or bacteria, and worn-out, broken-down cellular components, like aged mitochondria, the tiny organelles within cells that produce energy, form a kind of trash heap inside the cell.

In most instances, cells diligently sweep away this debris. They even recycle it for fuel. Through a process with the expressive name of autophagy, or “self-eating,” cells create specialized membranes that engulf junk in the cell’s cytoplasm and carry it to a part of the cell known as the lysosome, where the trash is broken apart and then burned by the cell for energy.

Without this efficient system, cells could become choked with trash and malfunction or die. In recent years, some scientists have begun to suspect that faulty autophagy mechanisms contribute to the development of a range of diseases, including diabetes, muscular dystrophy, Alzheimer’s and cancer. The slowing of autophagy as we reach middle age is also believed to play a role in aging.

Most metabolism researchers think that the process evolved in response to the stress of starvation; cells would round up and consume superfluous bits of themselves to keep the rest of the cell alive. In petri dishes, the rate of autophagy increases when cells are starved or otherwise placed under physiological stress.

Exercise, of course, is physiological stress. But until recently, few researchers had thought to ask whether exercise might somehow affect the amount of autophagy within cells and, if so, whether that mattered to the body as a whole.

“Autophagy affects metabolism and has wide-ranging health-related benefits in the body, and so does exercise,” says Dr. Beth Levine, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at U.T. Southwestern. “There seemed to be considerable overlap, in fact, between the health-related benefits of exercise and those of autophagy,” but it wasn’t clear how the two interacted, she says.

So she and her colleagues had lab mice run. The animals first had been medically treated so that the membranes that engulf debris inside their cells would glow, revealing themselves to the researchers. After just 30 minutes of running, the mice had significantly more membranes in cells throughout their bodies, the researchers found, meaning they were undergoing accelerated autophagy.

That finding, however, didn’t explain what the augmented cellular cleaning meant for the well-being of the mice, so the researchers developed a new strain of mouse that showed normal autophagy levels in most instances, but could not increase its cellular self-eating in response to stress. Autophagy levels would stubbornly remain the same, even if the animals were starved or vigorously exercised.

Then the researchers had these mice run, alongside a control group of normal animals. The autophagy-resistant mice quickly grew fatigued. Their muscles seemed incapable of drawing sugar from the blood as the muscles of the normal mice did.

More striking, when Dr. Levine stuffed both groups of animals with high-fat kibble for several weeks until they developed a rodent version of diabetes, the normal mice subsequently reversed the condition by running, even as they continued on the fatty diet. The autophagy-resistant animals did not. After weeks of running, they remained diabetic. Their cells could not absorb blood sugar normally. They also had higher levels of cholesterol in their blood than the other mice. Exercise had not made them healthier.

In other words, Dr. Levine and her colleagues concluded, an increase in autophagy, prompted by exercise, seems to be a critical step in achieving the health benefits of exercise.

The finding is “extremely exciting,” says Zhen Yan, the director of the Center for Skeletal Muscle Research at the University of Virginia, who is also studying autophagy and exercise. The study, Dr. Yan says, “improves our understanding of how exercise has salutary impacts on health.”

The implications of Dr. Levine’s results are, in fact, broad. It’s possible that people who don’t respond as robustly to aerobic exercise as their training partners may have sputtering or inadequate autophagy systems, although that idea is speculative. “It’s very difficult to study autophagy in humans,” Dr. Levine says. Still, it’s possible that at some point, autophagy-prompting drugs or specialized exercise programs might help everyone to fully benefit from exercise.

In the meantime, the study underscores, again, the importance of staying active. Both the control mice and the genetically modified group had “normal background levels of autophagy” during everyday circumstances, Dr. Levine points out. But this baseline level of cellular housecleaning wasn’t enough to protect them from developing diabetes in the face of a poor diet. Only when the control animals ran and pumped up their intracellular trash collection did they regain their health.

“I never worked out consistently before,” Dr. Levine says. But now, having witnessed how exercise helped scour the cells of the running mice, she owns a treadmill.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/exercise-as-housecleaning-for-the-body/#more-70557

This is yet another really good reason to exercise.
Brian Knowles

Is Yoga Hazardous or Helpful? The Biomechanics and Benefits of Advanced Yoga Postures

Sustained neck extension, full range-of-motion squats and loading of the cervical spine. Are they harmful, or healing moves?

While each raises concerns of risk for potential injury, these movements do show up in certain advanced yoga poses. And some experts argue that—with proper experience and warm-up time—otherwise questionable or “contraindicated” movements can be healthy for a yoga student’s body. Read on to discover more about the biomechanics of advanced yoga postures that might raise concerns in the eyes of fitness professionals.  

 All Poses in Their Place

Commercial yoga companies frequently choose complex and contorted yoga poses (like the ones discussed below) for their brochures and marketing tools. However, advanced postures like these have no place in a beginner yoga practice, all of our experts emphasize.

“Just as a trainer wouldn’t start someone on certain exercises until they were strong enough, yoga teachers shouldn’t teach a pose unless the student has sufficient range of motion, strength and control to do the pose properly,” says Lori Rubenstein, M.App.Sc., D.P.T., a yoga instructor and doctor of physical therapy who teaches in the yoga therapy program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif. She encourages advanced postures only if “the student has trained properly and worked up to them.”

Nevertheless, fitness professionals may still wonder how certain postures can be safe, even for the advanced, warmed-up yoga practitioner. Our experts weigh in.

 The Pose: King Pigeon Variation I (sometimes called one-legged pigeon; Sanskrit name: eka pada rajakapotasana I)

The fitness controversy: Trainers may be concerned with torsional force on the front (i.e., bent) knee that could potentially damage its lateral structures.

The yogic perspective: This pose only presents concern if the student moves the front foot too far forward and increases the angle between the upper and lower leg too much, says Rubenstein.

 To ensure adequate flexibility in the external rotators of the hip joints, students should be guided gradually into this posture by slowly improving range of motion (ROM), notes Rebecca Reed-Jones, Ph.D., a biomechanist, yoga teacher and current director of the Stanley E. Fulton Biomechanics and Motor Behavior Laboratory at the University of Texas in El Paso.

Practitioners should also “actively dorsiflex the front foot, aligning the ankle mortise joint with the shin, which then limits lateral motion at the knee,” says Robin Armstrong, D.C., a chiropractor, yoga therapist and trainer of yoga teachers based in Vancouver, B.C. (The ankle mortise joint is the bony archway made of the talus—the “ankle bone”—and the bony prominences of the tibia and fibula on either side.)

Unique benefits: This posture relieves the strain of a sedentary lifestyle and elongates the psoas and rectus femoris of the back (straight) leg, says Armstrong. Plus, it focuses on the frequently neglected flexibility of the external rotators, deep flexors and lateral muscular structures of the hips and thighs, adds Reed-Jones.

Modification: The student could position the heel of the front foot closer to the groin, says Armstrong. “You may also prop up the opposite hip [i.e., of the bent leg] with a block, blanket or towel to bring the pelvis level and to avoid overly loading the front knee,” she adds.

I think this a great article for the begining yog-ite or the seasoned pro. It does a great job of explainer both the Personal Trainer and Yoga Instructor's point of view. To read the rest of the article click the link below.

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Devices to Keep Track of Calories, Lost or Gained

By ROY FURCHGOTT
Published: January 4, 2012

When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, year after year the No. 1 spot is most likely occupied by “lose weight.” Its persistence probably has something to do with the fact that most people have trouble actually succeeding.

There is a simple reason for this. Everyone understands they have to burn more calories than they take in, said John Jakicic, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a researcher in the field of exercise and long-term weight control. But “most people don’t know how many calories they burn a day,” he said. “They have no clue.”

Getting a clue — or at least an accurate estimate — used to require a visit to a laboratory or the use of complex scientific equipment. Guess how often people took that approach?

Now though, there are simplified electronic monitors that are designed to accurately gauge physical activity and the calories burned, which is the silver bullet for weight loss. “There is a lot of evidence that shows they work,” Professor Jakicic said.

Some products in this area have fallen flat, like Jawbone’s Up, a wristband activity tracker that had so many technological problems that Jawbone is offering full refunds to dissatisfied customers. It is taking preorders for a new version.

How well a monitor works depends on how much it is used, which boils down to personal taste. Are you more likely to use one that offers games and challenges, one that just reports the numbers, or one that is inconspicuous? We tried four of the more common products.

STRIIV ($100) Just released in October, the Striiv may encourage even the most rooted sofa spud. Designed with the sedentary in mind, it is an ultra-simplified device that offers rewards and challenges to motivate users and keep them active.

The touch-screen device, about the size of a pack of Tic-Tacs, starts up with a jaunty song and a video with directions, though you hardly need them to operate it. Set-up is easy, and from there you wear it or carry it in a pocket to measure your steps when walking, running or climbing stairs. It was the one device tested that did not need to be synced with a computer.

Striiv has a number of ways to keep people engaged. It gives out trophies and points for accomplishments, like your record number of stairs climbed, and points can also be used to play MyLand, a game in which users build and explore an animated world.

Finally, you can choose one of three charities to receive a donation based on your activity (you’ll have to sync to a computer to make this happen). Walk 60,000 steps to immunize a child against polio. Fewer steps help provide clean water in South Africa or save a patch of rainforest. The Striiv is unique in that it offers both carrot and stick — it occasionally offers challenges, like “Do three minutes of activity.” Accept and you get a bonus 3,000 points; decline and you lose 300 points.

Striiv does suffer in a few regards. It measures only calories burned. You’ll need a separate app to measure calories consumed, like Livestrong.com’s MyPlate. And the device recognizes only the motions of walking, running and stair climbing, so it won’t spot an activity like weightlifting or cycling. That can throw off your calorie count.

FITBIT ULTRA WIRELESS ACTIVITY TRACKER ($100) Fitbit, a monitor about the size of a large nail clipper, has been around for a while, but the Fitbit Ultra brings some new features to the earlier version, which automatically transmits your data when you are within 15 feet of a Fitbit base connected to a computer.

The Ultra adds an altimeter to count stairs climbed. Like the Striiv, it won’t recognize exercise other than walking, running and stair climbing, but you can use a new stopwatch feature to log a block of time that you can later assign to an activity, like a Zumba class, using the Fitbit Web page or the companion iPhone app.

The Ultra will help you track the amount and quality of your sleep, but you have to manually set the stopwatch to do that as well. Tracking sleep is worthwhile because research shows a correlation between adequate sleep and weight loss.

There is now added inducement for the lazy in the form of digital badges, and you can share your exercise progress on Facebook. As before you can also share challenges and encouragement on the Fitbit Web site by creating groups or joining public ones.

Fitbit has a food log where you can enter what you eat to see how your calorie intake stacks up against calories burned, as well as the percentage of fats, carbohydrates and proteins you’re eating. The list of foods leans heavily toward chain restaurant meals, so you may have to approximate for food you make yourself.

For an additional $50 a year, premium membership provides more detailed data and lets you anonymously compare your stats with other Fitbit users.

BODYMEDIA FIT LINK ($200 PLUS $7 A MONTH SUBSCRIPTION) BodyMedia’s monitors were originally built for researchers like Professor Jakicic. They are worn on the upper arm and they measure heat, moisture and movement to get a picture of activity. As with other monitors, BodyMedia’s wasn’t good at recognizing exercise other than walking or running (it recorded lifting heavy weights as “moderate” exercise, which it is not).

The BodyMedia Fit needs to be plugged into a computer to log results, which are charted on an easy-to-follow page. It automatically logs calories burned, how long you’ve been active, how long you slept and the quality of your sleep.

The food log, like most, contains a lot of chain restaurant fare. If you make your own meals, expect to spend time entering the ingredients of your recipes to build your own database.

An especially nice feature is the nutrition assessment, which looks at the makeup of your food over three days. It lets you tweak your settings so if you aren’t losing weight when it indicates you should be, it will revise its calorie estimates specifically for you.

The Fit works with some Garmin training tools like the Forerunner and Edge GPS exercise trackers, so you can add heart-rate information to the activity page.

MOTOACTV ($250 8 GB, $300 16GB) Motorola’s new Motoactv is a small touch-sensitive device that looks — and works — a lot like an iPod Nano. It was the most sophisticated of the trackers tested, with a built in GPS receiver and the ability to connect to a heart monitor to record a wider range of activities.

The Motoactv gets around the problem of recognizing motion by requiring users to specify what exercise they are engaged in on a touch-screen menu. Then you have to start a timer. If you go from the elliptical machine to a stationary bike, you have to change the setup.

While it records enough information to be a real training tool for runners and cyclists, their gear has to include all of the right sensors to get the full benefit (pace monitors on a bike, for instance).

One of the features that makes Motoactv different from the others is that it plays music as you exercise and recognizes which songs make you work the hardest, building an inspiring “Performance Playlist.” You can also designate a “Fit Song,” so at the touch of a button you hear the tune that always psychs you up to go all out.

Thanks to the GPS feature, the Motoactv site’s performance page shows a map of your route, as well as things like heart rate, lap intervals, distance, calories burned and a list of the music played during your workout. You can set goals like a desired weight, distance or calories burned.

Motoactv is a work in progress, which is a good thing. Software updates can improve the device — Motorola has already sent an update that increases battery life, with promises of more to come.

One missing element, though, is a way to track your food intake. For that, as with the Striiv, you’ll need a third-party site.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/technology/personaltech/devices-to-keep-track-of-calories-lost-or-gained.html?pagewanted=2&ref=nutrition

I like this article because these are some really good ideas that could help people lose weight. I think the motoactv looks like the best of all of them, but I am sure that they all would give valuable information to help with exercise.

Brian Knowles