11 Feb 2006 - Charity choccies are out. Fruit at work is in

Last month I was plugging the Summer of Salad. This month it's fruit, prompted by a passing van for Fruit at Work. If you're trying to help people eat healthy, this sounds like a great idea. Swap the high-calorie snack box for a basket of deliicious fresh fruit. Fruit at Work will help you make the change in major Australian east-coast cities with a 2-week, 50% off trial (at time of writing). Great looking website too!

5 Feb 2006 - Really healthy food

Spotted the guy on the right on summer holidays at Apollo Bay, Victoria. He's the "Smoothie Peddler" at the local markets. You get a great tasting fruit smoothie and he gets a great workout mixing it for you with pedal power from his bike.

What ideas could you come up with to promote regular exercise using this concept. How about a 24-hour team challenge to produce the most electricity from pedel power?

2 Feb 2006 - Is The Biggest Loser a winner?

The Aussie version of the hit US reality show, The Biggest Loser kicks off Feb 13. If you've heard about this show, I'm sure you've got an opinion about it. Why not share your thoughts and I'll add them to my snacks over the course of the series. I have mixed feelings about the fate of the 12 participants and hope that discussing the program here, will help put many things in perspective and also discover what is actually real verus make-believe in the reality show.

Click here to have your say!

Here's some quick background taken from the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 29 Jan 2006.

"In a nutshell, The Biggest Loser sees sees 12 obese people locked away in a house and dvidied into two teams to compete for $200,000. Each week, the team that loses the least combined weight votes off one of its members."

"Each teams approach to weight loss is dictated by its trainer, and Jillian and Bob have different strategies. For example, Bob forbids his charges to eat any fruit in the first two weeks and has them on lower daily calorie allowances than the red team."

More comments and your thoughts here when the series starts.

1 Feb 2006 - Putting the play in Playstation

I didn't think I'd be giving a plug (unpaid of course) for a video game console on this website, but Sony deserves a mention for their ingenius EyeToy extension to their Playstation II. Here's my boy, Joey giving his opponent a genuine left hook, rather than a simulated button-pressed version.

Basically, this little camera and specific games allows you to ditch the games controller and replace it with your own limbs. This means for boxing, baseball, dancing, tennis and other video games, you are actually doing the required actions of that activity.

Contagious activity? Yes, by the end of New Year's Eve my sister-in-law's mother was slapping down the best of them.

Will it combat childhood obesity? Who knows? But in the meantime it shows a positive step for video game manufactures to get kids up of the couch.

Disclaimer - The Playstation was received by me for Christmas for research purposes.

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