Promoting nutrition and exercise, if not bicycling

PETER TOBIA /Philadelphia Inquirer. Stephen Robinson is a blur, pedaling the stationary "fender-blender" bike to make fruit smoothies. His brother Chavar (orange shirt) and David Mom steady the blender. A smoothie takes about 30 seconds of pedal power. From the article "Students get cooking (and pedaling): City teens sit still for summer classes in nutrition and foreign fare; A unique bike helps make it fun," from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

I spent some time in Arlington this weekend, because of the County Fair. I didn't take a photo of the Gold's Gym on Wilson Blvd. last night--clearly housed in a former automobile dealership--although it would have been great, all the people moving somewhat in unison, on the various step machines.

Maybe to promote better nutrition, contraptions could be connected to the exercise machines that use the energy to cook and/or otherwise make food.

Also see "The School-Lunch Test," from the Sunday New York Times Magazine, about whether or not improving school lunches will help reduce childhood obestiy.

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