Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy. And in today's episode, you're going to get five

healthy alternatives to playing Pokemon Go for either you or your kids. Now, unless you're an isolated hippie living in a forest or someone who completely eschews technology and lives off-grid with a landline phone, do they even make those anymore?

You've no doubt heard of the Pokemon Go craze sweeping the world.

Pokemon Go is a free location-based reality game for iOS and Android devices in which players use a mobile

devices GPS to locate, capture, battle, and train tiny virtual creatures called Pokemon, who,

thanks to the wonders of technology, appear on the screen as if they were in the same real-world location

as the player. Now, I realized the extreme viral nature of this craze when I went for a bike ride on my local trail last week

and discovered what had previously been a relatively forsaken fitness trail suddenly overtaken by

random students, children, old men, families, and what seemed to be the entire population

of the city walking around with their faces buried in a phone, oblivious to runners and

cyclists on the trail. And as you can imagine, I was simultaneously intrigued and also annoyed.

And of course, I've been repeatedly asked the question, do your kids play Pokemon Go?

Well, in this episode, you'll discover the answer and get three healthy alternatives to Pokemon Go should you or your children decide to opt out of the great virtual hunt for cartoon characters.

Now, I was recently reading the salon.com article, The dangers of Pokemon Go.

Kids' brains are vulnerable to virtual and augmented reality.

And this article reported on how researchers conducted three separate studies with over 1,600

video gamers and found that many showed strange post-game hallucinogenic-like effects, hearing or seeing

aspects of the game hours or days after they'd stopped playing, including sound effects,

music, and characters' voices, explosions, sword swipes, and screams. One gamer reported hearing

someone from the game whispering death for several days after they'd stopped playing,

while another reported seeing images from the game randomly pop up in front of their eyes.

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