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Conversations on Blippy occasionally revolve around how people should spend less for things. If you pay more than $29.99 a month for a gym membership, expect to hear about it. But more often the comments are pro-purchase. That's especially true when people opt to specify what they're buying on sites such as Amazon, iTunes and Netflix (I like The Office too!). (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...healthy and your muscles strong, and in cancer patients it has even been shown to ward off relapse. Now a series of independently conducted studies on the effects of exercise in healthy older adults, published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, confirms that logging time at the gym not only helps maintain good health but may even prevent the onset of chronic diseases, such as heart disease, osteoarthritis and dementia...
That helps explain why some consumers are hedging their bets by hopping on a NeuroActive Brain Bike. The $4,000 machine debuted a year ago at Lady of America fitness centers, where members - who tend to be older than the average gym rat - quickly fell for the cardio-cognitive combo. "Instead of mindlessly watching TV" while pedaling, says Gerry Weber, CEO of Lady of America, which has 300 women's-fitness franchises worldwide, "they're able to exercise their brain at the same time...
Perhaps what's most important to remember amid the thicket of memory games, iPhone apps and other newfangled gadgetry is to just do something - preferably something novel - that engages your brain. Oh, and make sure you enjoy it too. "If you hate going to the gym," notes Bill Thies, chief medical officer for the Alzheimer's Association, "you're not going to go there on a regular basis...
...location like a bar or a restaurant. As incentive to share, your current location shows up on the Foursquare map to help you meet up with friends. Check in enough times from a coffee shop, for example, and you're dubbed its mayor. Give a shout-out from your gym 10 times in a month, and you might get a badge that dubs you a "Gym Rat." That gaming component is the site's secret sauce - one that pushed it past 150,000 users before...