Looking for a way to make counting calories more fun? Well, maybe not more fun (when is it ever?) but more convenient? The Diet Buddy is a hand-held nutrition calculator that lets you access the full nutritional information (calories, carbs, fats, sugar, fiber, protein, etc.) for more than 4,000 foods. It’s small enough to fit in a purse or pocket, so you can take it with you wherever you go. It also has an alarm to alert you when you’ve hit your daily limit of calories, carbs, sugars, or fats (I’m not sure I’d be particularly thrilled with this feature… like I want to know I’ve hit my max when it’s only 11 a.m.). In addition to helping you keep track of what you eat, the Diet Buddy acts as a pedometer that automatically counts steps and converts them into miles and calories. For $25, it seems like a pretty good deal.
Since when can a Coke product help you lose weight? Well, the newly launched Coke Enviga is supposed to. The Coca-Cola company says that drinking three cans of Enviga a day can burn 60-100 calories by revving up your metabolism. This is according to a study (funded by Coca-Cola, of course) on healthy 18-35 year olds (you know, the people who don’t really need to lose weight anyway). Even if the claims are true, the Wall Street Journal had a write up about how much you’d have to spend to burn off those 60 calories a day (each can costs $1.29). They pointed out that you’d have to drink 28 Envigas and spend $36.12 to burn off the calories in a McDonald’s Big Mac. That’s pricey and you’d sure be doing a lot of peeing.
But if you just want to check it out for the novelty of it (or because you like green tea drinks), by all means, let us know how it tastes.
Lose weight while sitting down? Sounds great! Where do you sign up? Ah, you have to buy a “Hula Chair.” Straight out of Japan (people are thin over there, aren’t they?), this chair is supposed to give you a healthier body, improve circulation, and burn a few calories here and there. All you do is sit on your butt and this “modern miracle” mixes ancient traditional Chinese medicine with modern 21st Century technology to improve your balance and coordination by gently aligning your spine. You can feel it working your abs and mid-section, all while you chill… Ah, fitness for the lazy. Gotta love it. And only $200. That’s way less than a Bowflex…