Not sure of your point, Alan.  Is it the price that threw you off?  Do
you expect them to give these books away?  If you want some free
recipes there are plenty on the ADA site, just do a simple search.  As
far as the book itself, not sure how much, but a portion of everything
sold on the site goes to the ADA mission.  Doubt if Tom will be able to
publish some of the recipes since the book is copyrighted and that
would be illegal.

That is a good deal and the P&H is pretty reasonable considering what I
had to pay to send my Mother flowers from an online site today!!
Thanks for posting the link.

Best,
Kurt

Alan,

Do you have the same pedometer as the one on the ADA site?  I've bought some
cheap pedometers and none of them were any good.  I'm thinking that for
$3.95, you get what you pay for.  Last year, after losing or breaking yet
another cheap one, I bought an Omron pedometer that counts steps taken,
aerobic steps taken + time (aerobic steps are counted after you've walked
for at least 10 minutes non-stop), calories burned (calories take into
account all steps taken, not just aerboic) and miles walked (again, all
steps).  When I set it up I'm not sure if it asked for my weight.  If it
did, I'd better go and change it because I've walked off a LOT of those
pounds.  My Omron also saves the data for the previous 7 days.  It was
cheap, too, I paid under $25 for it and have seen it on sale from Amazon for
less than $20 (US currency).

I love my pedometer.  If I'm in a hurry in the morning and leave home
without it I feel lost.

Today my pedometer shows I walked 15,189 steps.  7,237 were aerobic steps, a
total of 68 minutes (in two big chunks).  I try to get at least 10,000 steps
a day.

--
Liz
Type 1 4/1987

i got 6.75 shipping AND A $15.00 Handling fee
making it  25.98 with taxes included :-(

they calculated the taxes incorrectly too..... i
won't tell them that

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I wonder if they work for women though.  I've bought several pedometers,
paying as much as $30 each, and none of them have been accurate for me.  All
have worked just fine for my husband.  One of them never registered a thing.
Another would registered 2 steps for each 50.  Still another gave me too
many or too few steps (never knew which it would be) and racked up about
2,000 steps for a short ride in the car.  Two of these had adjustments for
stride length and even light, medium or heavy steps.  One poster (haven't
seen him around in a while) here told me that at the medical facility where
he worked, they discovered that these didn't work very well for women if
used as directed.  He said they found they got better results if they
clipped it to the middle of their bra.  I haven't tried this because I
really don't know how accurate this would be and it would make me look
deformed.

I couldn't figure out why these would work better for a man than a woman.
My husband tends to step very heavily.  I do not.  My steps are very light,
unless I make a real effort to pound my feet and this is something I
couldn't (or wouldn't want) to keep up for very long.  Another theory is
that women tend to have a more rounded shape and that the pedometers only
worked on very lean women without curves.  Still another theory was that
they didn't work on overweight people because the excess weight caused them
not to sit in the right place.  However my husband is overweight with the
excess weight around the belly.

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I'm intrigued by the fact that it (and others that I've seen
advertised in the UK) calculates the energy expended. Much of my
walking is done on a beach, and walking on soft sand is hard work. On
top of that, there's a long steep hill up from the beach that really
gets my heart thumping. I assume that these pedometers wouldn't be
able to take into account soft sand and hills. Or are they cleverer
than I imagine? Have they got some sort of three-dimensional satellite
positioning system built in? (I very much doubt it!).