From theappleblog.com (via iphonematters.com):

You may have caught our round-up of iPhone apps for your car from a few weeks ago.

Well, it’s time for another batch, so here’s our our list of 9 fitness-related iPhone [and iPod Touch] apps. Once again, each item on the list links to a full review with feature and pricing information. Enjoy!

Restaurant Nutrition
If you eat a lot of fast food, but you’re morbidly curious and you want to know what you’re putting in your body, then this is the app for you. I like it because it helps me eat reasonably well when I’m on the road.

LIVESTRONG.COM Calorie Tracker
You probably recognize the Livestrong name from Lance Armstrong’s charitable organization that made yellow bracelets omnipresent. Well, now they’ve given us an app that keeps track of your daily calorie intake/burn.

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From woai.com:

Judith Markelz has relied on volunteers for years to help the war wounded and their families. They’ve brought meals, DVDs, event tickets and an endless supply of cookies to help comfort those whose lives are suddenly upended by a bomb or a bullet.

So when a new volunteer, Les Huffman, arrived at the chaotic 1,000-square-foot room used for the Warrior and Family Support Center in January 2007 and asked what Markelz needed, the program manager said a new video game system.

But Huffman, the president of a small commercial development firm, wanted to do more. And when Markelz conceded she could use a little more room, that’s what she got: a $5 million building designed like a Texas Hill Country home with a therapeutic garden, classroom, video game room and kitchen – all paid for by private donations. It’s the first center of its kind built on an Army post.

“I asked for an Xbox 360 and I got a 12,500 square-foot building,” she laughs. “Nice trade-off.”

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From winknews.com:

Can a video game get you in shape? The popular video game system “Wii” is making that promise with its new counterpart “Wii Fit”.

It’ll cost you $300 dollars for the Wii system and another 89 for the Wii Fit game. So, we wanted to know if it was worth it. We took the Wii fit to the trainers at “Fitness on the Move” in Fort Myers. They spent the weekend testing it.

“Both your legs are working that’s what’s so great about it,” said one trainer about the lunge portion of the workout.

“Oh there’s a hill on this bridge have to go higher!” said another trainer while doing the running portion.

How did the trainers feel the system worked?

“Overall impression? It’s a wonderful tool,” said trainer Ozzie Uriarte.

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From mcvuk.com:

Advance Games, L.L.C., a newly founded video game development company in Baton Rouge, has announced its release of Say-N-Play, a speech articulation game used to help children practice word pronunciation. Say-N-Play features Stanford Research Institute’s EduSpeak speech recognition engine for identifying properly pronounced words. Say-N-Play offers a visually engaging twist to articulation drills, making the game fun for children.

Baton Rouge speech-language pathologist, Holly Strange, M.S. CCC-SLP, conceived of the idea to utilize speech recognition technology to make practice enjoyable and offer an engaging alternative to traditional speech therapy drills. Say-N-Play’s graphics are vivid, full of color, and child-appropriate. The game features colorful characters and numerous games to choose from.

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From csmonitor.com:

Suicides among soldiers have increased dramatically in the last several years, up by 46 percent since the US invaded Iraq in 2003. Senior service officials recognize that the wars have affected soldiers in the form of post traumatic stress disorder and other manifestations of mental depression, but still haven’t completely figured out how to address the issue.

The Army is conducting new training, handing out “buddy cards” to alert soldiers to problems among their friends, and recently announced a new five-year study to be undertaken with the National Institute of Mental Health.

But one of the more novel solutions is an interactive game called “Beyond the Front,” starring Specialist Norton, a character in a kind of modern-day military morality play. The service plans to send out thousands of copies of the game – part of an Army suicide prevention program costing almost $1 million – to educate soldiers about the dangers of not seeking help when they most need it.

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From wickedlocal.com:

Videogames aren’t just for bored couch potatoes anymore and one interactive gaming system may just be the key to a Brookline firefighter returning to work.

Monday, April 16, 2007: Owen Thompson, a Billerica resident, rushed into a burning house wearing nearly 90 pounds of equipment. He never imagined the fire would leave him out of work for more than six months while he received extensive physical therapy and surgeries.

“I had an entire ceiling fall on me,” said Thompson. “After the fire was out we were clearing the ceiling and wall to ensure there was no hidden fire and trying to take down the second floor ceiling and the ceiling all of a sudden let go. They literally had to come with axes and saw me out. I sustained [damage] to the hard cartilage in the rear of my [knee cap]. Part of it actually sheared off.”

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Just prior to beginning her work with Thompson, Brinklow and the clinic had caught word of a new alternative exercise treatment for patients that was proven to improve their strength and entertain them at the same time, the Nintendo Wii gaming system. While the Wii is already a popular tool for geriatric patients inside assisted living facilities and senior centers across the country, the videogame is now all the rage as a therapeutic tool for stroke, pediatric and orthopedic patients.

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