Eating & Exercise

We’re all well aware that we need to keep a steady balance between the amount of exercise made every day, and food we eat. However, with the abundance and diversity of today’s activities, you can easily lose track of your own health. In this regard, Eating & Exercise comes as an interactive simulation based on these factors to determine how you might end up in the near future.

The application can be carried around on a USB flash drive so you can run simulations on other computers as well, without worrying about stability issues with the target PC, because registries are not a dependency. What you do need to make sure is whether or not Java Runtime Environment is installed, because this is a required component.

You’re quickly convinced to try out a few simulations, especially given the real time updating graphs and details, with high-quality textures and animations for most of its sections, as well as a large collection of preset food products, and types of exercise to choose from.

However, the application doesn’t need to replace your lifestyle, and only provides a general assumption of what can happen under custom circumstances, considering heart condition is in tip-top shape, and no other external factors included. There’s also an included message to notify you.

First up, you need to configure your character, which constantly stands on a scale. Heart strain and strength are shown, and values can be set to English or metric units. Needless to say that you need to specify sex, and the level of sedentarism you’re into every day. Moreover, age, height, weight, and body fat are adjusted with dedicated sliders, with neat visual feedback on the character itself. Drag the weight slider too far down, and your character is starving.

The second part lets you work on the type of alimentation and amount of exercise you perform on a daily basis. An impressive variety of preset elements are available for both categories, and you need to drag them over a plate, and logbook respectively, with a calories slider updating accordingly.

Running the simulation starts to update everything, from the shape and values of your character, to calories slider, and two graphs for weight, and intake, all according to time. Don’t let results scare you, because our first simulation character died from starvation in the first year, while the second doubled in weight in two years.

To sum it up, Eating & Exercise is a fun simulation you can run to get an idea of how much you might need to change your lifestyle. Sure enough, it doesn’t need to be taken seriously, but it does manage to provide an impressive approach on the health problem created by the lack of balance between alimentation, and sport.