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The top 5 sources of salt in US diet (potato chips didn’t make the list) – CBS News
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You probably know that Americans consume way too much salt, but a new U.S. government report points the finger at some surprising sources of salt in the diet.
The report said the top 5 culprits were:
Surprisingly, potato chips, pretzels and other obviously salty snacks didnt make it into the top five, though they did ring in at number 7.
Most Americans are consuming too much salt and its coming from a lot of commonly consumed foods about 25 foods contribute the majority of salt, said lead researcher Zerleen Quader. Shes an analyst from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Knowing which foods contribute the most salt is important for reducing your salt intake, she said.
Sodium is an essential mineral that helps the body maintain fluid balance, according to the American Heart Association. But, too much in the diet increases the risk for high blood pressure, which in turn boosts the risk for heart attack and stroke. Table salt contains about 40 percent sodium. One teaspoon of table salt has 2,300 milligrams (mg) of sodium, which is the maximum amount recommended by health experts.
The new CDC report found that in 2013-2014, Americans consumed about 3,400 mg of salt daily. That far exceeds the recommended amount, and is more than double the American Heart Associations ideal intake of 1,500 mg daily.
And, clearly, all that salt doesnt come from the salt shaker. Most comes from packaged, processed and restaurant foods, the report said.
Many of these foods contain moderate amounts of salt, but are eaten all day long, Quader said. Its not necessarily that foods such as bread are high in salt, but eating several slices a day quickly adds to the total amount of salt you consume.
One way to reduce salt is to pay attention to food labels when shopping and choose the lowest salt option, Quader suggested.
When cooking at home, use fresh herbs and other substitutes for salt. When eating out, you can ask for meals with lower salt, she added.
Quader said the food industry can help by lowering the amount of salt it adds to its products. Gradually reducing salt in foods can help prevent high blood pressure (hypertension) and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and wont even be noticed by consumers, she said.
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The CDC researchers found that 44 percent of the salt people eat comes from just 10 foods. These include bread made with yeast, pizza, sandwiches, cold cuts and cured meats, soups, burritos and tacos, salted snacks, chicken, cheese, eggs and omelets.
Seventy percent of salt in the diet is from 25 foods, the report said. Some of the foods included in the top 25 are bacon, salad dressing, French fries and cereal, the researchers found.
In addition, 61 percent of the salt consumed daily comes from store-prepared foods and restaurant meals. Restaurants have the saltiest foods, Quader said.
Processed foods not only raise blood pressure, but may also increase the risk for cancer, one nutritionist said.
Samantha Heller is a senior clinical nutritionist at New York University Medical Center in New York City.
Processed meats such as bologna, ham, bacon and sausage, and hot dogs have been classified as carcinogens by the World Health Organization, Heller said.
In addition, these and other highly processed foods are huge contributors to the excess salt in the Western diet.
Parents need to understand that feeding hot dogs, fries, and ham and cheese sandwiches to their kids (and themselves) is significantly increasing their risk for certain cancers, hypertension and heart disease, Heller said.
Lowering salt in your diet is as simple and as difficult as cooking at home and using fresh ingredients, as often as possible, she suggested.
This can save money and time in the long run, and certainly is better for our health, Heller said. It may take some time to re-pattern your shopping and eating habits, but your health is worth it.
The report was published March 31 in the CDCsMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Zac Efron’s ‘Baywatch’ Diet Helped Him Stop Craving Junk Food – SELF
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One view of the new Baywatch trailer will probably have you saying, "Holy buff Zac Efron !" The actor plays an Olympic swimmer-turned-lifeguard in the film, and he looks more toned and muscular than ever. We found out his body transformation didn't come without hard work. Last year, Efron told Men's Fitness magazine that he trained for 10 weeks for the film, working out five or six days a week, and sometimes twice a day. He paired his intense fitness regimen with a strict low-carb, low-sugar diet, too. He shared some of his healthy meals on Instagram , and they actually looked downright delicious. And Efron said sticking to healthy #eeeeeats helped to curb his junk food cravings.
"After a while your body stops craving junk food and you look forward to these meals," he told the magazine. "You go, 'Holy cow, I want kale and vinaigrette shredded with beets and a little bit of sweet potato!'"
He's right: Eating healthy for a sustained period of time can turn us off from our unhealthy cravings. Tanya Zuckerbrot , M.S., R.D., founder of the F-Factor Diet, tells SELF that studies support Efron's statements. "Theres science that supports why the cravings minimize, and there are studies that support that when you start eating healthier, you start craving healthier foods," Zuckerbrot says.
Related: What You Need to Know Before Starting a Low-Carb Diet
Let's explain junk food cravings. When you eat any type of carb , whether it's a complex carb (found in foods like whole grains, fruits, and vegetables) or a refined carb (like white bread, cakes, pasta, and white rice), your body breaks it down to its simplest formglucose, a form of sugar. When glucose enters the bloodstream, insulin gets secreted to carry the glucose to cells for energythat's the body "burning carbs" for energy, which is the primary fuel for the body. Complex carbs break down slowly, but refined carbs flood your system with this glucose (often with more than you can use at one time). If you eat refined carbs regularly, your body starts to expect a pattern of glucose. "The one day you choose not to have carbs, the body has secreted the insulin anywaythats the vicious cycle," Zuckerbrot says. The insulin is there, and your body is begging for all those carbs you promised it. "When people stop eating carbs or sugars or some of these refined foods or junk foods, the first few days they go through withdrawal. They dont feel wellthey feel weak, tired, shaky, cranky."
On top of this, sugar itself is seriously addictive. When you eat it, you get a hit of the feel-good brain chemicals dopamine and seratonin. It's the same basic brain response elicited by cocaine. "You then become addicted to that feeling, so every time you eat it you want to eat more," Gina Sam, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Gastrointestinal Motility Center at the Mount Sinai Hospital, previously told SELF .
The good news: Zuckerbrot says you can kick those cravings in a few weeks by sticking to a diet that's high in fiber and low in refined carbs. (Efron says it took him two to three weeks to get his sugar cravings to subside.) When your body is experiencing "withdrawal" symptoms, it's in a state of very low blood sugar and trying to get back to a stable level. High-fiber foods, like complex carbs, take your body longer to digest, meaning glucose will be released more gradually and evenly. "When that blood sugar spike isn't experienced, the subsequent cravings aren't experienced either," Zuckerbrot says.
Even your taste buds will change to accommodate your new habits. Taste buds regenerate about every 11 days , so by the end of your withdrawal period you'll actually have a tongue that's more used to eating less sugary food, and you'll lose your taste for the sweet stuff (at least to some degree).
And as your body gets used to how good it feels running on healthy fuel, you might find yourself jonesing for kale and beets just like Zac Efron does.
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Here’s Exactly How I Lost 50 Pounds Doing The Keto Diet – Delish
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All of this is useless if you don't accompany it with a high-intensity strength training regimen. After all, your body needs muscle to burn fat. I recommend an 80/20 strength-training-to-cardio ratio.
To give you an idea of what that looks like, at the peak of my keto journey, I was weight training for an hour every morning (with one or two rest days per week) and doing about 30 minutes of high-intensity cardio twice a week. I emphasize "high-intensity" because the higher your heart rate, the more fat you're burning. Good cardio exercises include sprinting intervals, spin classes like Soulcycle, and good old-fashioned swimming. Bad (or less efficient) cardio activities include long-distance running or anything that maintains a moderate heart rate.
Now here's where things get tricky: Ketosis is a pretty fragile state, and it's not the same for everyone. You have to figure out the exact cocktail of macronutrients you need to hit every day. There are a few tools online that should help I used the ruled.me Ketogenic Calculator. These calculators take a number of things into account like age, height, activity level, and your own personal goals. The most important thing to remember is that you want your carb intake to be no more than 5 percent of your total caloric intake. Based on what I've read, 20g is a safe daily carb threshold to shoot for. The other thing to remember is that you have to hit a relatively small protein window every day. Eat too little or too much protein, and you risk kicking your body out of ketosis.
You're probably wondering how I kept track of all of this on a daily basis. Fortunately, like any millennial, I turned to a smartphone app for help. There are a few of them out there, but my favorite one is Lose It! It lets you search a user-generated database of almost every food and drink known to the internet, log what you ate, and it breaks down everything from caloric intake to macronutrients to exercise.
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One of the most helpful things I used during keto was a food scale. Since this diet requires you to know every ingredient going into your body and exactly how much of it, dining out wasn't really much of an option. Therefore, you have to be prepared to cook everything. To make it easy, I did most of my cooking on the weekend and saved leftovers for during the week. With each meal, I'd weigh out the ingredients and log them in the app. That way, I could accurately track exactly how many carbs, fats, and proteins I was taking in.
For me, an average day in meals usually included some sort of variation of bacon and eggs in the morning (substituting bacon with avocado from time to time), a fatty salad or some lamb over lettuce from the halal cart for lunch (or even a bunless burger), and weekend leftovers for dinner. If I had the energy after work, I'd occasionally make pork chops or a steak.
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If you haven't already figured it out by now, arguably the biggest downside of this diet is that you don't get cheat days. If you cheat (miss your protein window or eat too many carbs, for example), you have to start all over again. Keto only works as a constant state; It's more of a lifestyle change than a diet. Another bummer is that since you're taking in a lot of fat and not a lot of fiber, constipation can be a problem. This can be alleviated by taking fiber supplements like Metamucil or psyllium husk.
The good news is once you're in ketosis, you'll notice a lot of changes and not just in appearance. When I was on keto, my skin cleared up, my mood brightened, and I found the energy I was getting from fat to be cleaner and a lot more reliable. I woke up feeling clear headed and had enough energy to sustain me throughout the day. I rarely even needed coffee!
After 5 to 6 months of full-on keto, I hit my target weight (160), and decided to ease myself out of it. To start, I basically continued eating according to the diet's guidelines, but stopped logging and tracking my food, choosing to use my own judgment rather than have the diet dictate my life. Then, little by little, I re-introduced some carbs back into my system, like fruits and some vegetables. I still eat a lot of fatty food and try to stay away from grainy carbs like rice, bread, and pasta. To be honest, I don't know if those will ever be a regular part of my diet again. You really don't notice all the negative effects of sugars and carbs until you quit them completely.
There's a common misconception that fat is the primary cause of obesity, which explains society's obsession with low-fat products (yogurt, milk, desserts, etc.). But that claim is being proven wrong every day. I'm no nutritionist, but from what I've learned, fat is definitely not the boogeyman I grew up conditioned to believe. The issue is most of our fat is hidden behind a lot of carbs, which make it really hard for some metabolically challenged people like myself to burn it efficiently.
It's been about 7 months since my body was last in ketosis, and I'm happy to say I've maintained a healthy lifestyle and have still been able to lose even more fat just by working out and knowing what I'm eating. One great benefit from this diet is that it cuts your portion sizes. If, like me, one of your problems is portion control, nothing will train your body to eat less like filling it with meat, cheese, and butter for a few months. That alone will help you keep the weight off after keto (as long as you don't go straight for the carton of ice cream).
My weight now fluctuates between 155 and 160 pounds (down from 207 last February) and has been that way since last June. I look better, I feel better, and any time I feel myself slipping into old habits, I like to get back into it for a few weeks just to re-center myself. That or I head to the barber shop for more advice and moral support.
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Remember When Leonardo DiCaprio Was In That Cheesy Diet Cheese Ad? – Huffington Post
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Before Leonardo DiCaprio stole teenage hearts in movies like Romeo + Julietand Titanic, he was trying to steal something else: His television fathers gross-looking diet cheese.
The throwback ad for fat-free Kraft American cheese singlesis making the internet rounds again, much to our Leo-loving hearts desire. Its safe to say this cheese product was made with artificial ingredients, but our love of footage of young Leo is all too real.
The Oscar winners plea for a processed cheese slice is almost convincing, as is his TV moms reminder that theyre supposed to be saving it for his his figure-watching father.
But ma, they make a good sandwich! he cries.
Of course, since no one can say no to DiCaprio, the mom [SPOILER ALERT] eventually gives in and allows wee Leo all the fake cheese his heart could want.
Catch us watching this on repeat all day if you can.
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Google released a new fitness class booking service – Mashable
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Mashable | Google released a new fitness class booking service Mashable Reserve with Google is a new feature that lets you see and book fitness classes in the U.S. It was previously only available in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The site pulls together Google Maps and Google Search and puts them into a new ... Google's New Feature Takes the Stress Out of Booking Fitness Classes Google now lets you book fitness classes A Google search is all you need to book a fitness class |
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New Apple Watch Series 2 ad showcases waterproofing & fitness features – AppleInsider (press release) (blog)
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By Roger Fingas Friday, March 31, 2017, 10:22 am PT (01:22 pm ET)
Actors in the spot can be seen hiking, sprinting, and playing sports, as well as doing many other activities that make use of the watchOS Activity and Workout apps. Often though scenes specifically involve water, namely swimming, riding a waterslide, or dashing through a balloon fight.
Only brief interludes focus on other watchOS features, such as the Breathe app or animated emoji.
Apple has placed a heavy emphasis on fitness with the Series 2, both in its design and recent marketing. In addition to being waterproof, the accessory includes built-in GPS for running, cycling, and walking, and comes in a Nike+ edition with a different band and special preloaded software. The band is now available separately.
Very few rumors have emerged about what a third-generation Apple Watch will offer. Apple could be adding LTE, which would allow it to work fully independently of an iPhone. It might also switch from touch-on-lens technology to glass-film, though that's unlikely to have much impact on actually using the device.
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Fitness family continues to grow – Sandusky Register
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Sandusky Register | Fitness family continues to grow Sandusky Register SANDUSKY For the last five years, Tim Dorsey has made it his mission to encourage others to just keep moving. Since the best way to lead is by example, that's exactly what the fitness guru has been doing, as he continues to expand his gym, Tim ... |
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The Garmin Fenix 5S is the fitness watch I don’t want to take off – The Verge
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It turns out that a giant multisport watch doesnt have to be a giant multisport watch.
Case in point: the new Garmin Fenix 5. Garmin has taken its big, aggressive, I Am A Serious Outdoors Person line of Fenix multisport watches and shrunk it into something that looks a little less obtrusive. It was also designed with women in mind. (Yay!) The Fenix 5 model has a 47mm face, compared with the 51mm face of the Fenix 3; and the Fenix 5S, aimed at women and anyone with smaller wrists, has a 42mm face. The Fenix 5X is the only one in this series that has maintained its massive size, due to its advanced mapping features.
Garmin shrunk its heavy-duty Fenix watch into something more approachable and actually designed it with women in mind
Almost more important than size is the fact that the Fenix 5 knows what it is and what its supposed to do. Its not a smartwatch posing as a fitness watch, and its not a fitness watch that has co-opted the app platforms and battery-sucking touchscreen displays of smartwatches. Its a fitness tracking watch with all of the stuff that you would expect from a high-end Garmin.
This all sounds great! The gut punch comes when you consider the price: the Fenix 5 starts at $599, and only goes up when you move into the Sapphire glass models. Thats more than Garmins Forerunner running watches, more than its triathlon watches, more than Polars multisport V800 watch, more than Suuntos Spartan Sport watch, more than... okay, you get the idea. The Fenix 5 is a very expensive sport watch. For that price, youd want to to track every activity under the sun. Fortunately, it pretty much does that.
For the past month Ive been wearing the Fenix 5S during both workouts and day-to-day life. Its relatively small and light, weighing in at just 2.4 ounces with a silicone band, the lightest of all the Fenix models. The model I have is white; it also comes in black and teal. Over time the watch body and silicone strap have started to look dingy, so Id recommend getting another color unless you have your heart set on a white watch.
For people interested in the Fenix 5: the 5 and the 5S record the exact same activities, differing only in size, display resolution, and battery life. (See pic above for a size comparison; the 5S is on the left.) Not surprisingly, the Fenix 5Ss smaller size equates to shorter battery life. The Fenix 5S is supposed to last nine days on a charge in smartwatch mode, and up to 14 hours in GPS mode; the Fenix 5, on the other hand, will last two weeks in standard mode and 24 hours in GPS mode. In my experience the Fenix 5S lasted closer to a week in smartwatch mode; coupled with consistent GPS workouts, I was looking at charging it around every five days.
The 5S has a round face, a fiber-reinforced polymer body, and a stainless steel bezel. Its still fairly thick, with a swollen underside and flashing green heart rate sensors, but its not quite the monstrosity that is the LG Watch Sport.
The button on the upper right brings you to sport options; the bottom right button brings you back a step in the watch interface and lets you mark laps. On the left side of the face, theres a backlight button and two more buttons that act as both up / down buttons and shortcuts to data pages (showing things like daily step count, calories burned, local weather, altitude, and recent notifications). TL;DR: these buttons take time to learn, even with button identifiers etched on the bezel.
The 1.1-inch display is the same multicolor, transflective display youll find on other newer Garmin watches, but its worth noting that the Fenix 5S didnt get a resolution upgrade. The 5S has a resolution of 218 x 218 pixels, while the 5 and 5X now have a slightly higher resolution of 240 x 240 pixels.
Okay, so you can see it in sunlight, and theres not much innovation around the display. Lets talk about what it actually does. It has GPS, Glonass, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, an altimeter, a barometer, a compass, and built-in heart rate sensors. It records running, trail running, treadmill running, hiking, climbing, cycling, indoor cycling, mountain biking, pool swims, open water swims, downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, triathlons, stand up paddleboarding, strength training, and more. Also: sleeping.
The Fenix 5 tracks every sport you could possibly want to track and if it doesnt, you can create one
If your sport isnt listed as an option, you can create a new one letter by letter using the watchs buttons, which is about as fun as entering in a password using a TV remote and assign GPS to it. I did the bulk of my Fenix 5S testing during a weeklong trip to Montana, when I was snowshoeing, downhill skiing, and occasionally doing other workouts, and I was able to customize a GPS-enabled "Snowshoe" option. The watchs barometric altimeter also came in handy that week when I realized that a bout of dizziness and shortness of breath was likely the result of climbing past 8,400 feet. Amateur, am I right?
Thats the thing that makes the Fenix the Fenix: it doesnt just track your sport, it gives you a crazy amount of granular data around that. Since Im not a super competitive runner or cyclist, simply getting an accurate reading on outdoor distance and pace are enough for me, along with having an easy way to change data screens while Im working out. The 5S delivered that, although it tended to give conservative readings on non-GPS indoor runs compared with what the treadmill recorded.
Also, while accurate heart rate readings tend to be sketchy on a wristwatch, in my workout tests on a spin bike, the Fenix 5S generally matched or was within a few beats per minute of the reading from a Polar chest strap. Garmin says it also upped its sampling rate for non-workout heart rate readings on the Fenix 5, which means its now reading the data more frequently throughout the day, and in theory should offer better readings.
Garmin now breaks your workouts down into aerobic vs. anaerobic activities, which is new
But there are plenty of other features that fitness freaks go nuts for. The new Fenix breaks your workouts down into aerobic vs. anaerobic training zones when youre done, which is a new feature. Like other sport watches, it gives you a VO2 max estimation; it will also now tell you your current training status whether youre overdoing it or whether you should train as usual as well as your training load over a longer period of time. You can create interval workouts, and load them onto the watch. You can customize the watchs multisport mode to have it track basically anything you want.
The one area where I regretfully didnt get to test the Fenix 5S was in the pool or ocean, due to a minor injury thats made swimming unfeasible. But it is waterproof rated up to 100 meters, and is supposed to record lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, and calories burned.
As for its flaws, the Fenix 5S has all of the same downsides as previous Garmin sport watches like the inability to interact much with notifications, or a less-than-awesome mobile app. This is both maddening, given that Garmin has had years to work on its app and "smart" features, and also forgivable when you remember what the express purpose of a device like this is.
Its not that the Garmin Connect mobile app is terrible; it runs on almost all smartphones. And it does freely share data with other popular health and fitness apps. But theres little about Garmin Connect that draws me to open it on a regular basis aside from syncing the watch. At the end of the day it still feels like a super-detailed desktop dashboard thats been compressed into a mobile app. There are 10 10! different Snapshot pages in the app to swipe through, showing things like daily steps, specific workouts, your weight, your intensity minutes, and more.
The more prescriptive advice is either buried in the app, or happens on the watch itself. For example: theres an Insights option in the app that will compare your workouts with other Garmin users in your age and gender group, but in order to get truly interesting info (like "You tend to log fewer steps on Fridays" or "You sleep six hours during the week but nine on weekends") you need to go a step beyond that, tapping on a tiny "View All Insights" option. Occasionally, the mobile app will send an alert: "You are moving more than a typical Monday."
The Garmin mobile app still feels like desktop software crammed into 10 pages of a mobile app
While the watch itself gives plenty of guidance after intense workouts, it lacks finesse when it comes to day-to-day activity alerts. "Move!" the watchface says when youve been sedentary for too long, vibrating on your wrist. "Move bar cleared!" it says when you get up and move around. Garmin does not mince words. For whatever reason, despite its multitude of sensors, the watch could not tell the difference between sitting down for an hour and taking a yoga class for the same amount of time. "Move!" it would tell me in the middle of class.
And for people who care about onboard music: the Fenix 5 watches still dont have this. You can control your music from the watch, but you cant load it up onto the watch itself and run phone-free.
The watch also froze up entirely during one outing, while I was snowshoeing through Yellowstone National Park, and really, really wanted to record the activity. Exactly 23 minutes in, the watch stopped working, with an incoming Slack notification frozen on the screen. (Guess the watch doesnt like getting work alerts on vacation, either.) It only worked again after a hard reset. Garmin said it may have been an early software glitch, since Ive been testing a preproduction watch. Im inclined to believe that was the case, because I didnt experience any other issues after that.
Despite all that, this new Garmin very well could be the 2017 multisport GPS watch to beat. At $600, this is not a Fitbit or even an Apple Watch; its a commitment watch. And generally speaking, its still a thick, heavy-duty sport watch. But the Fenixs smaller size now allows it to be a little bit more aspirational. Someone might buy this watch not because theyve already arrived at their fitness peak, but because they want to. And they might just wear it every day, too.
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Chesapeake vies for $20000 grant to get fitness equipment for Northwest River Park – Virginian-Pilot
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The city is hoping to make ailing Northwest River Park and Campground a bit more fit, but needs some help to do it.
Starting April 1, as part of the National Recreation and Park Associations month-long Meet Me at the Park campaign, people can nominate Chesapeake to receive a $20,000 grant to install outdoor fitness equipment at the park. Other Hampton Roads cities are also vying for the grant, as well as others from across the country.
Kevin Kaul, Chesapeake's parks manager, said after an early March story in The Virginian-Pilot about Northwest River Park and its various needs, hes been approached by people asking how they can help. Not everybody can clear drainage ditches and trails, he said. The grant campaign is a cool idea in which people could easily be involved in creating something new at the park.
Parameters for the grant include a park improvement project or program that connects youth to nature, increases youth access to sports and/or inspires healthy living, said Lynn Jordan, a city recreation specialist.
Kaul said the money would be used to create a fitness area similar to one at Chesapeake's recently renovated Elizabeth River Park. It could have an assortment of equipment, like outdoor rowing and elliptical machines, and places to do pulls-up and leg lifts.
There have been increasing requests from people for things like that, Kaul said, and he hopes to find a spot with a view. Existing park amenities include disc and miniature golf courses, children's playgrounds, trails and boat rentals, in addition to the campground.
Kaul said the money can't be used to replace Northwest's rotting wood and aging infrastructure, but its an easy way for people to help the park.
Votes can be cast daily at http://www.nrpa.org/beinspired until the end of the month. The city with the most nominations gets the grant. Jordan said the winner will be revealed May 18.
Everyone who nominates a city will be entered into a drawing for a tablet thats been outfitted to be used outdoors, according to a press release. Norfolk, Portsmouth and Suffolk are also taking part in the campaign.
A Virginia Beach parks and rec spokeswoman said the city doesn't have a park submitted for consideration, but would support nominations that come from the public.
Meet Me at the Park is in its third year and is a collaborative effort with The Walt Disney Company, including Disney Citizenship, Disney|ABC Television Group and ESPN, to revitalize U.S. parks, according to a press release.
Visit Chesapeake's Parks, Recreation and Tourismwebsite for more information.
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Adidas unveils All Day mobile app for fitness and training – Retail Dive
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Adidas has announced some details of its new All Day mobile fitness application, and is recruiting consumers to participate in a closed beta program before making the app generally available this summer.
The All Day app, which will integrate with the Adidas Chameleon HR fitness tracker, provides a variety of short-term training routines and practices called Discoveries, which are based on science and cover the four drivers of performance and well-being movement, nutrition, mindset and rest.
Adidas said 12 Discoveries will be available at launch, including clean eating tips from chef Candice Kumai, workout sessions from yoga teacher Adriene Mishler and celebrity trainer Stephen Cheuk, as well as a custom mix of music designed to help you sleep from DJ Nina Las Vegas. Discoveries will be available at beginner, intermediate or advanced levels of fitness.
Adidas earlier this month said it would open its mobile fitness app to leverage the contributions of third-party partners, and the All Day unveiling showcases the first example of that strategy to employ open source collaboration methods.
The apparel and footwear claims the All Day app "has been informed by the best thinking across sports, data and behavior science," a claim backed up by the fact that Adidas partnered with the American College of Sports Medicine, the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. Adidas is filling the All Day app with sport science research and insights from ACSMs expert network and working with long-standing partner EXOS, a company focused on methods for maximizing athletic performance, to bring training best practices and insights from elite athletes to the app. In addition, Adidas is working with Verily, an Alphabet subsidiary and Google sister company that is providing advisory support focused on healthcare and life sciences.
There is a lot more to the app to get into, but at the risk of losing ourselves and you in a jargon soup of sports science, let's just say that Adidas, like its biggest competitor Nike, is loading its app with a mix of straightforward capabilities and expert-driven content. These two companies and Under Armour have been battering one another on different levels and in different market segments shoes, apparel, the ability to land celebrity endorsers and partnerships with professional sports leagues and now the competitive battles are moving into the mobile app arena (and maybe the fitness tracker arena, too?).
That makes sense, as consumers are living in a mobile world, and expect to be able to fully engage with their favorite brands in that world not just be able to visit a website on their smartphones that has been formatted to fit the device, but have a true interactive experience that leaves them feeling like they have gained something. Adidas has decided the best way to make sure that happens is not to do everything itself but bring the best of what its partners can provide. All Day's initial partnerships seem like the start of that effort, but there are probably more to come. We'll see what this summer brings.
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Adidas unveils All Day mobile app for fitness and training - Retail Dive