Fit Gadgets: PCGamerBike
Fortunately, he's in great health and good shape and still manages to come to the gym with me occasionally, so this habit doesn't really hurt him. But it drives me nuts to think about the people who surely miss workouts because they're so involved with their games -- has that ever happened to you, or a loved one?
Today's Fit Gadget provides a solution -- the PCGamerBike requires the player to pedal in order to make his character move. The character could be a person, an airplane, a car, or anything else, and pedaling forward acts as the up arrow while pedaling backward acts as the down arrow.
I will never forget a TV special I saw several years ago about household germs. They claimed that germs could "jump" from a toilet bowl and surfaces such as doorknobs were just breeding grounds for virtual colonies of little beasties. 
We may be getting closer to HAL 9000 before too long. Scientists have tested 
During the Holidays, I took a bit of a break from the computer. I still checked my Email everyday--I really don't know how anyone survived before it was invented--but I didn't spend all day in the front of the screen like I usually do. And like magic, the dull throb in my head and neck seemed to disappear. That's when I realized something had to change in my computer habits. 
Ever heard of 
In another triumph of computer programs helping with age-old problems, a newer game called "Fearfighter" is starting to help British citizens who suffer from panic attacks, phobias or even mild depression.
I started changing my diet at the end of April. I started slow, with just a few modifications -- no soda, no sweets -- and then tweaked things here and there until I'd ditched all crap from my cupboards and kept only the healthy goods. It took a while before I'd identified all my wrong-doings. In the beginning, for example, I'd liberated myself from sugar and was eating loads of fruits and veggies but hadn't quite caught on to the whole low-fat thing. It hit me one day after eating a Pizza Hut personal pan cheese pizza. Sitting like a lump in my stomach, that mini-pizza told me I'd made a wrong turn when I pulled into that Pizza Hut parking lot. So I rushed home, sat in front of my computer, and began hunting for nutritional information on the gut buster I'd just consumed. I found it. It wasn't good.
A recent survey by the Stanford University School of Medicine shows that 1 in 8 American adults obsessively check emails and surf the internet . It says that basically, they're addicted. Are you that 1 in 8? Or is it somebody in your office or family? (If you have a big family there's probably several afflicted members!)
Sometimes it seems like video games rival crack in terms of their addictive properties. Or if not crack, certainly smoking or alcohol. I know come people who will trade social interaction, even work, to stay home a play video games. So if sex and gambling and shopping are legitimate addictions, is excessive video gaming considered one too?
Recently a small study confirmed for college kids what I think many of us already knew: 
Technology is seeping into every part of our lives, bit by bit. And now 
Summer Slimdown Guide: Instant self-confidence boosters
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Summer Slimdown Guide: Calorie-free foods (or close to it)
