Zombies Run, A Fitness Game with Audio Adventure

Zombies Run

Now, there is a fitness exercise game with audio adventure for people who are into tech, computers and cell phones.

Zombies Run, is an immersive cell phone game that will make you exercise and stay fit by running. The game is for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android where you help rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse.

The goal is to make running thrilling with a game and a story delivered through your headphones and it can be done anywhere - in a park, along a beach, in the city, even on treadmills.

Denmark’s healthy problem - many bicycle riders

Copenhagen, Denmark is experiencing a healthy problem. It has too many people riding bicycles.

Copenhagen is known as one of the most bicycle-friendly city in the world. About 36% of the population commutes by cycling. The city offers a variety of conditions to facilitate this habit and aims to increase cycling population to 50% by 2015. This all sounds like a healthy and environment friendly trend. 

Bicycle parking

However, according to an article in Guardian, Copenhagen is running into a problem of its own and they even have cycling rush hour because of too many bike riders. Apparently, cycling in Copenhagen in the rush hour is not for sissies because it requires concentration  In rush hour, there are enormous numbers of cyclists fighting for space on Copenhagen's bike paths, which become cramped and packed.

The city is struggling to deal with its growing number of cyclists. It is already near-impossible to find cycling parking places near main stations and the cycling lanes, three to four meters wide, are buried beneath the scrum of cyclists going around the city.

Cycling advocates are working with the government to make cycling better and safer in Copenhagen. The suggestions include increasing the width and number of cycle paths and introducing multi-storey bike parking facilities. It is a challenging task but worth doing when you consider the beneficial impact of cycling and physical exercise on health and the environment

This is something for American couch potatoes to think about.

Jennifer Aniston stays fit by daily exercise, yoga and healthy diet with salad

jennifer aniston

Jennifer Aniston was married to Brad Pitt and got divorced in 2005. Now, Jennifer Aniston, at 41, looks pretty. fit and in bikini shape. Aniston was the oldest woman to make the Top 10 on Women’s Health magazine’s ‘Best Summer Bodies of 2010′ list,

Jennifer Aniston keeps her body in a great shape by working out every single day, yoga and running. A longtime follower of  the Zone Diet, Aniston eats a healthy, high-protein, low-carb diet and salad. In fact, while working on Friends, Jennifer Aniston, along with Lisa Kudrow and Courtney Cox ate lunch together and ate a Cobb salad every day for 10 years.

Jennifer was heavier during her Friends days but has gotten fitter and slimmer now. Her advice “just stop eating sh*t every day.”

Jennifer Aniston says “I feel more comfortable today than I ever did in my 20s or early 30s,” she says. “I’m healthier. I’m more at peace in my mind and with my body. I’m startin’ to live. It’s good!”

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Jane Fonda, 73, is still selling fitness videos

Jane Fonda fitness dvd

If you need some motivation to keep up with your new year resolution to stay fit, listen to Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda, 73, says that it is never too late and you can start working out in your 70s and 80s.

She recently released two new exercise DVDs for Baby Boomers, seniors and people who are out of shape:

Jane Fonda Prime Time: Fit and Strong

Jane Fonda Prime Time: Walk Out

She is still physically active, but not in the same way she used to be. She doesn't run anymore, but walks instead. She does a lot of walking, brisk but doable. Fonda doesn't lift heavy weights anymore but uses 3- to 5-pound hand weights. To sty on track, she also uses services of a personal trainer.

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beneficial effects of exercise on diabetes

exercise can prevent diabetes

New guidelines, published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, by American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Diabetes Association, suggest that exercise can help prevent or manage type 2 diabetes and improve overall health and quality of life.

The recommendations call for at least 150 minutes a week of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic exercise spread out at least three days during the week, with no more than two consecutive days between bouts of aerobic activity. The new guidelines provide specific advice for those whose diabetes may limit vigorous exercise. However, the majority of people with type 2 diabetes can exercise safely, as long as certain precautions are taken.

The presence of diabetes complications should not be used as an excuse to avoid participation in physical activity. Experts also suggest that physical activity be a conscious part of every person's health plan, as appropriate for age and physical condition.

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A few tips for staying fit and diabetes free

Make fitness a fun family affair

Mike Adams, the Natural News, used to be borderline diabetic and suffered from hypoglycemia and borderline obesity at the same time. But he was able to cure his own pre-diabetes condition by ignoring a lot of conventional information and by teaching himself the principles of nutrition.

Now, at age 41, Mike is healthy and athletic, lifts weights, swims, bicycles and exercises on a regular basis while carefully choosing foods that will prevent diabetes for a lifetime.

Here are his top five secrets for preventing (and even reversing) diabetes:

1) Stop eating all refined sugars
Such as high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), (especially soda), or other refined sugars.

2) Ingest large quantities of daily superfoods
Such as spirulina, stabilized rice bran, chlorella and high-density superfood powders such as Boku Superfood and Living Fuel.

3) Exercise a little bit every day
Even just walking 30 minutes a day can have a huge impact. The key is to make it a daily activity.

4) Get sunshine or vitamin D supplemen

5) Avoid all processed foods.
Avoid eating refined anything. That includes white breads, processed meat  and dairy products.

According to Mike, with these five things, you can  reverse diabetes yourself. Diabetes is not a difficult disease to prevent or reverse because it is merely the biological effect of following certain lifestyle (bad foods, no exercise) that can be reversed and prevented in virtually anyone.

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European are getting fat

half of the Europeans are oveweight

According to a recently released Health at a Glance Europe 2010 report, by the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), over half of adults living in the European Union countries are now overweight or obese. The rate of obesity has more than doubled over the past 20 years in most EU member states.

Currently, one in seven children in the EU are overweight or obese and one of the reasons could be that only one in five children in the EU exercise regularly. Children who are obese or overweight are more likely to suffer from poor health later in life. It would be helpful to start the healthy habits from a young age.

The report covers the 27 European Union member states, three European Free Trade Association countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) and Turkey. Romania faired the best and UK the worst.

Ranking (Best to Worst)

1        Romania

2        Switzerland

3        Italy

4        Norway

5        Sweden

6        Netherlands

7        France

8        Denmark

9        Bulgaria

10    Austria

11    Poland

12    Germany

13    Belgium

14    Spain

15    Turkey

16    Portugal

17    EU

18    Cyprus

19    Finland

20    Slovenia

21    Slovakia

22    Latvia

23    Czech republic

24    Estonia

25    Greece

26    Hungary

27    Lithuania

28    Luxembourg

29    Iceland

30    Malta

31    Ireland

32    United kingdom (UK)

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