Nutrition 360 http://nutrition360.org Health Information Sat, 15 May 2010 03:10:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Smooth CE 3.6 Elliptical Trainer Review http://nutrition360.org/smooth/ http://nutrition360.org/smooth/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 03:08:02 +0000 admin http://nutrition360.org/?p=244 The Smooth CE 3.6 elliptical trainer is an excellent value in the $1,500 price range. It is built like a rock and has an impressive service record.

smooth ce 3.6When I was recently at the Smooth Fitness corporate headquarters, I put the CE 3.6 through the motions. I immediately noticed how it was very solid, stable and quiet. It also had a very smooth (no pun intended) motion.

Most elliptical manufacturers who market on price or features. Smooth focuses on building quality machines at a value price. They also back-up their equipment with excellent customer service and extended warranties.

NOTE: As of 5/15/10 the Smooth CE 3.6 was selling for $1,199 with free shipping. They dropped the price $100. Go to SmoothFitness.com for the latest deal.*

New: Check out my Smooth CE 3.6 Video demo. Taken when I was at the corporate headquarters.

Smooth CE 3.6 Elliptical Trainer Features

smooth ce 3.6 consoleStability — The Smooth CE 3.6 weighs in at a hefty 175 lbs. The weight combined with a long and wide footprint, make this a solid machine. For people who are over 200 lbs, this elliptical should be appealing. You don’t want one of those compact crosstrainers that are around 100 lbs.

In addition, the CE 3.6 is constructed with heavy gauge steel, which further adds to the stability. I’m not sure there is another elliptical at this price, which is as solid and stable.

Electro-Magnetic Drive and Braking System — The advantage of an electro-magnetic drive is there are less parts in the braking system. Resistance is created by electrical currents and not moving magnets. You’ll find most high-end ellipticals utilize this technology.

Rear Drive - There is some controversy over which is better, rear or front drive. It really is a matter of preference. However, there are three advantages to the rear drive.

  1. First, there are fewer moving parts, and fewer parts means less service issues. With a front drive you have pedals that run along rails with wheels. These wheels often wear out. In contrast, the Smooth CE 3.6 uses sealed bearing instead of the wheels and rollers found in front drive machines. The overall design of the Smooth CE 3.6 is simplistic, and that simplicity results in less service.
  2. In addition, the rear design with the sealed bearings makes for a very quiet mechanical operation. When you have less moving parts you have less wear and resulting noise.
  3. Finally, the rear drive tends to center your body, while many front drive ellipticals can have you leaning forward.

Once again, it really is preference on which is best, rear or front drive. However, Precor, which invented elliptical trainers and is considered one of the best machines out, have rear drive.

smooth ce 3.6 displayBacklit LCD Display – Smooth has some of the better consoles and displays on the market. You can get feedback on speed, time, distance, heart rate, calories and resistance level.

Speakers, MP3 Input & Fan — Although built-in speakers is getting to be a standard feature, what I like about the CE 3.6 design is the fact the speakers are raised to be closer to your head. There is also a 3-speed fan.

Heart Rate Sensors on Moveable Handlebars — The majority of ellipticals have the heart rate sensors in stationary grips. You have to take your hands off the handlebars to get a reading. Which makes no sense since you want a reading when you are working both your lower and upper body.

Heart Rate Control — The Smooth CE 3.6 elliptical trainer is equipped with both wireless heart rate control, and handgrip HRC. Many people, including myself, prefer not having an uncomfortable strap around our chest. The heart rate control handgrips on the moving handles is a nice alternative. Smooth is one of the few companies to offer this innovative feature.

smooth pedalsPivotal Foot Pedals — The ergonomic, pivotal foot pedals reduce the strain on your joints. When you workout on an elliptical trainer your feet and ankles naturally want to pivot with the elliptical motion. The CE 3.6 foot pedals mimic the pivotal movement, thereby reducing harsh impact or possible injury. The design allows your ankles, as well as your knees and hips, to remain in alignment. The design reduces discomfort and numbness to your feet, which is a common complaint with ellipticals. It further prevents injuries from excessive straining.

Good Customer Service Record — In talking with the head of customer service, and was told me the service record for the CE 3.6 is excellent. The basic configuration of this machine has been out for several years and has proven to be very durable. If you have a winner, stay with it.

Warranty — An indication of the service record is the warranty. You get a 3-years parts, and a 2-year labor warranty. Above average coverage for the price.

Our Review — Smooth CE 3.6 Elliptical Trainer

The Smooth CE 3.6 is one of the best values when selling at $1,399 with shipping. I say that because of the overall design, durability, service record, features and the 2-year labor warranty. This is one elliptical I am quit comfortable recommending.

Customer Review

My elliptical machine arrived within a week of ordering it.  It was very easy to assemble and I am very pleased with the overall construction and stability of this machine.  I have searched for three years in various sporting goods stores for an elliptical of health club quality and found exactly what I wanted at a great price.  I have had it over a week and I am still amazed with all of the features.  – Teresa

For more information on the Smooth CE 3.6 go to SmoothFitness.com.

]]> http://nutrition360.org/smooth/feed/ 0 My Very Own Name Personalized Storybook http://nutrition360.org/personalizedstorybook/ http://nutrition360.org/personalizedstorybook/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 03:07:15 +0000 admin http://nutrition360.org/?p=238 Own Name Personalized StorybookMy Very Own Name is a beautifully illustrated personalized storybook that helps children learn to recognize letters and spell their names. In this 8 1/2″ x 11″ hardcover, professionally bound book, animals bring letters one by one to create the child’s first and last names in rhyme. A jackal brings a J, an ostrich brings an O, and so on. At the end, the animals celebrate because they’ve created the perfect name.

As an added personal touch, this award-winning book includes the child’s birthdate, a printed dedication from the sender, and an illustrated encyclopedia of 61 animals. This storybook is made in the USA and written by Maia Haag.

Take the virtual book tour and read what customers are saying.

]]> http://nutrition360.org/personalizedstorybook/feed/ 0 My Very Own Name Gift Set http://nutrition360.org/ownnamegift/ http://nutrition360.org/ownnamegift/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 02:59:20 +0000 admin http://nutrition360.org/?p=235 my very own nameThe Gift Set includes the My Very Own Name personalized storybook, a beautiful gift box that also serves as a book jacket, and a t-shirt embroidered with the letter of your choice from A to Z. Sitting on top of it all is Kirby the Frog, who is as cute as they come. It’s irresistible!

In the personalized storybook My Very Own Name, animals bring letters one by one to create the first and last names of your child. Take the virtual book tour and read what customers are saying. This storybook is made in the USA. Maximum 15 characters for the first name, 15 characters for the middle name, and another 15 characters for the last name.

Your child will be delighted to find that the animal on the t-shirt matches one of the illustrations in his or her My Very Own Name storybook. See the choices for embroidered animals on the t-shirt.

If you order a gift set for a child who has already received the same gift, we will alert you via email, so that you will have the opportunity to cancel or order another item.


]]> http://nutrition360.org/ownnamegift/feed/ 0 Childrens Books http://nutrition360.org/childrens-books/ http://nutrition360.org/childrens-books/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 18:49:02 +0000 admin http://nutrition360.org/?p=230 iseeme

The main aim of the I See Me is to provide the highest quality, most personalized children’s books. I See Me has started its business in May, 2000, after a year of active product development. Their main goal was to write an educational book that would teach young children how to recognize letters and spell their names. They always wanted the story to be entertaining, with a high degree of customization and wonderful illustrations.

Their personalized children’s books make keepsake baby gifts, birthday gifts, and holiday gifts for newborns and children through age 12. My Very Own Name is a attractively represented personalized book of I See Me. By using these books childern can learn how to recognise the letters and their names, because in which funny entertaining animals bring letters one by one to spell the first and last names of your child.

The book includes the My very own Name storybook, a My Very Own Animal t-shirt embroidered with the letter of your choice from A to Z, a beautiful gift box, and Kirby the Frog…. all tied together with a arc. It is perfect gift that promises to make a child smile for I See Me.

Products Available at I See Me:

  • 1) My Very Own Animal T-Shirt: This attractively embroidered t-shirt features an entertaining animal character holding the letter of your choice frm A to Z. Your child will be enjoyed to find that the animal featured on the t-shirt matches one of the animals illustrated in his or her My Own Name personalized storybook.
  • 2) Keepsake Gift Box & Bow: This colorful gift box plays as a book jacket to preserves the book for years to come. The book slides into the jacket to be stored safely on the shelf. The bow looks like a perfect gift.

Awards received by I See Me are:

  • 1) Family choice Award: My Very Own Fairy Tale, their newest personalized storybook, has been honored with a 2006 Family Choice Award. The Family Choice Awards are one of the most Family-Friendly consumer awards. It is recognized as the best in children’s and parenting resources. My Very Own Fairy Tale was selected by a panel of judges from more than 700 entries overall as one of the best products for education value, level of entertainment and engagement, social value, and for endurance and longevity.
  • 2) Iparenting Award: For I See Me “My Very Own Name” personalized storybook was a winner of the Greatest Products of 2004 award granted by iParenting. To receive this award, the book was reviewed by a children’s products expert, a professional within a childcare setting, and a parent. I See Me positive characteristics of the book are the use of bright colors and well known animals for the children to name.

I See Me! will make a donation to our charitable partner First Book to provide one new book to a child in need.

]]> http://nutrition360.org/childrens-books/feed/ 0 Nexx Web Hosting http://nutrition360.org/nexx/ http://nutrition360.org/nexx/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 13:24:37 +0000 admin http://nutrition360.org/?p=226 Nexx Online, Inc. is the premier provider of web hosting, domain name, e-commerce, e-mail, e-marketing services and technology solutions. Trust, quality, and reliability have made them one of the largest, most recommended web hosting companies in the world.

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]]> http://nutrition360.org/nexx/feed/ 0 Kindle DX Review http://nutrition360.org/kindledx/ http://nutrition360.org/kindledx/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 10:21:13 +0000 admin http://nutrition360.org/?p=222 Over 250 people have put up their Kindle DX review at Amazon and the opinions are generally favorable. 

Here’s my Kindle DX review.

Kindle DX Review – Who is the Kindle DX suited for?

The Kindle DX is great for -

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The DX is good for reading newspapers, magazines though keep in mind that it lacks color and the navigation is awkward.

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]]> http://nutrition360.org/kindledx/feed/ 0 10 Reasons to buy a Kindle 2 http://nutrition360.org/kindle2/ http://nutrition360.org/kindle2/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 10:09:26 +0000 admin http://nutrition360.org/?p=218
  • 1. It’s great if you travel. If you travel, the Kindle is a godsend. I’m the kind of guy who stocks up  books for even short trips, fully expecting to finish War and Peace, Notes from Underground, and  four Clive Cussler novels on a plane trip from Pittsburgh to Columbus. With the Kindle you have a  full complement of books available at any time.
  • 2. You can put anything you want on it. You can easily email DOC, TXT, and PDF files to your  own  Kindle email address for conversion to the Kindle – but that costs 10 cents.
  • 3. It looks great. The Kindle 2 is an amazing improvement over the Kindle 1. If every manufacturer  took cues on build quality and product life cycles from Amazon, we’d all be better off.
  • 4. It feels great. This new version has excellent button placement and is thin enough to cut  cheese.  It’s eminently portable.
  • 5. Almost any book at any time. Except for a few esoteric reference books I’ve found just about  everything I need on the Kindle store. As more and more publishers go ebook – and I think an  iPhone Kindle reader will truly blow the last bottlenecks out – this excuse will become ineffective.
  • 6. It works in inclement conditions. I was in Mexico with the wife and kids and I wanted to test the  Kindle out near the pool. Three books later and I felt like the laziest high-tech maven in the world.  The ladies next to me brought twenty softcover novels with them and all of them got wet and  messy. The Kindle worked like a dream.
  • 7. The bookmarking and highlighting systems are vastly improved. The original Kindle had two  methods for note-taking: you could select text and add a note or you could add a book mark. The  new system refines those considerably and adds visual feedback whenever you take a note.
  • 8. The dictionary is now in-line. When you move to a word, its definition appears at the bottom of  the page. If you wanted a definition before, you had to pop out to a separate page.
  • 9. You can almost see and understand the illustrations in 16 greyscale shades. Note the “almost.”  However, it’s better than 4 shades, which was abysmal.
  • 10. It is the future. Sorry, it is. Amazon nailed the ebook and they’re going to own the space for  the next few years. Maybe they’ll pull a Netflix and sell the software to OEMs, which is fine by me.  But ebooks are what we’ll be reading while we rocket to Mars in 2050. Or we’ll have our robotic  concubines read them to us.

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    ]]>     http://nutrition360.org/kindle2/feed/ 0     Web Hosting – HostMonster Review http://nutrition360.org/hostmonster/ http://nutrition360.org/hostmonster/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:06:58 +0000 admin http://nutrition360.org/?p=216 The HostMonster brand is later launched in mid 2006 and has also outpaced LunarPages in a year time. Although the branding of HostMonster might not be as good as BlueHost, but I believe it will slowly catch up.

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    ]]>     http://nutrition360.org/lasvegas/feed/ 0     Amazon http://nutrition360.org/amazon/ http://nutrition360.org/amazon/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:26:40 +0000 admin http://nutrition360.org/?p=212 Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America’s largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010.

    Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and so on. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.

    On January 15, 2009, a survey published by Verdict Research found that Amazon was the UK’s favorite music and video retailer, and came third in overall retail rankings.

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