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Wishing the Jewish Community
a Very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!

Aerobic Riders

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JACK WILLIAMS

SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

While it's generally agreed that
you won't rock your way to opti-
mal condition on the new genre of
aerobic riders, Consumer Reports
magazine has singled out a ma-
chine it says will provide a good
workout for most people.
The Weslo CardioGlide, which
retails for about $199, received the
only stamp of approval of five non-
motorized exercise riders in the
magazine's survey.
A distant second in their rat-
ings was ExerHealth's HealthRid-
er, followed by ExerHealth's
aeROBICRider, CSA's E-Force
and CSA's E-Force Sport T 1210.
Consumer Reports said the
CardioGlide "challenged everyone
who tried it, especially at its high-
er resistance settings."
It also proved challenging in an-
other respect, providing the most
difficulty in assembly of the four
riders tested.
In a California State Universi-
ty Northridge study, CardioGlide
was shown to cause back pain
among some participants. How-
ever, testers found it came closer
than the HealthRider or the E-
Force to equaling the aerobic de-
mands of a treadmill.
The Weslo CardioGlide is sold
by Sears under a different name:
TAfestyler Cardiofit.
Aerobic riders require the user
to pull with the arms and push
with the legs, activating two ma-
jor muscle groups.
Because you move with your
body weight against gravity, heav-
ier people who are not physically
fit may have trouble adapting ini-
tially. 0

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Fat Freedom

Bombarded by admonitions to
cut calories and forgo fat, more
and more of us seem to be adopt-
ing a fatalist philosophy: Life is
too short to be dominated by de-
nial.
According to American Demo-
graphics magazine, the percent-
age of Americans who eat what
they want, when they want it, ir-
respective of the latest in dietary
directives, was 64 percent in 1994.
In 1977, the figure was 45 per-
cent.
The American Dietetic Asso-
ciation has documented the same
trend, reporting that 35 percent
of Americans say they are per-
sistently pursuing a balanced
diet, compared with 44 percent
in 1991 and 39 percent in 1993.
But rather than representing
a leap to hedonism, it just might
mean that we're more honest in
responding to surveys these
days. El

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