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Funk Rockass supported by Pure Health and Fitness – Video
Posted: September 4, 2012 at 11:15 pm
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Prograde Genesis Leaps Ahead of Competition
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North Palm Beach, Florida (PRWEB) September 04, 2012
Prograde, a leading manufacturer of natural health and fitness supplements, has released a new product line known as Prograde Genesis. Genesis enters the market as a greens product, or a supplement that delivers extracts from leafy greens and vegetables. But Genesis' makers say it includes much more.
Prograde's director of research, Registered Dietitian Jayson Hunter, says that the company has included a wider range of ingredients in Genesis so that it can address more health concerns than a conventional greens product. Genesis is made from berries, fruits, and therapeutic mushrooms as well as vegetables, and includes probiotics or beneficial bacteria that help the body digest and ward off infections.
Genesis is, simply, the most powerful combination of active natural ingredients that we could create, Hunter said. We keep a close eye on new discoveries in the field of nutrition, and Genesis represents the very best formula.
The supplement can dramatically improve general health, but is specifically marketed around four benefits: optimizing how the body processes glucose to achieve healthy blood sugars levels, promoting good digestive health, delivering antioxidants and minimizing free radicals in the body, and bolstering the immune system.
Blood sugar levels are a growing concern as increasing numbers of patients struggle with diabetes, and because unhealthy blood sugar levels contribute to aging. But Hunter says that most greens supplements don't address glycemic intake at all.
We looked at what other greens products contain and we realized we could do so much more, said Hunter. People shouldn't need to take a dozen different supplements everyday. It's inconvenient and it gets expensive. So we put everything important into Genesis. And after trying enough other greens products, we decided to make ours taste better, too.
Genesis is sold at http://www.GetPrograde.com and through licensed health and fitness professionals.
Sitting in Column: Health and Wellness Day at Swampscott Farmers Market
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Submitted by Kimberley Fillenworth of the Swampscott Farmers Market Committee
Last Sunday once again the weather was perfect, cool and crisp as September is now upon us and with that comes fall in New England. We had a light turnoutlast weekendwith our vendors due to several family events withClark Farm and Cherry Street Fish Market,but rest assured we will be at full capacity this week, Sept. 9.
Also this week, The Lynch van Otterloo YMCA will join us to promote theirHometown Wellness Showdown. The Showdown is a 4-week total wellness challenge to crown the healthiest town in Eastern Massachusetts, sponsored by boston.com and Lose It! a diet and fitness tracking application.
Being healthy and eating fresh, local produce, go hand in hand, so please come out and join in the fun. Emily OBrien, the Marketing & Communications Director of the YMCA of the North Shore will be with us passing out some fun giveaways and hosting some mini-challenges, like one-minute pushups or jumping jack challenges as well as other fun mini events kids are sure to enjoy!
Mark your calendars for our Farmers Market Style Throw Down/Cook Off coming Sunday, Sept. 16. Live and in person, come watch three of our local chefs as they show you the best of their talents and creativity. Each of our chefs will be given 15 minutes and $35 dollars of spending money to procure ingredients from our vendors at Swampscott Farmers' Market. Then its off to cooking stations where theyll have one hour to prepare a dish of their choice. The final decision will be based on Creativity, presentation and of course, taste.
The Swampscott Farmers Market is open each Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Swampscott High School parking lot. Also, check our Facebook Page. We post regular market updates and market information, recipe ideas, etc. Its a great interactive way to connect with our local growers and food enthusiasts!
You can follow us on Facebook at ttps://www.facebook.com/SwampscottFarmersMarketor visit our website athttp://swampscottfarmersmarket.org/
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The toxic message in Facebook teen health and fitness sites
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I WORK with thousands of teen girls across Australia every year. So I am always interested to note online trends as these provide an insight into their emerging interests; and nothing seems to be engaging teen girls more at the moment than the incredibly fast growing ''Teen Health/ Fitness'' inspiration sites on Facebook.
There are at least two of these launching each week, and within a matter of weeks they gain tens of thousands of predominantly teen girl fans.
We might be tempted to think this is a good thing. After all isn't there a much-talked-about obesity crisis? Aren't we currently considering weighing children in schools as part of our response to this deadly epidemic? If our girls are finally taking matters into their own hands, isn't that to be ''liked'', and ''shared''?
But these sites are very problematic. First, we have no idea who is administrating the pages and if they are even qualified to hand out advice (and after reading the advice posted I think it's fairly safe to say that many most certainly are not qualified).
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Second, all the pages I've seen are often nothing more than Thinspiration sites - sites that glorify unhealthy eating practices and become communities where girls with eating disorders can ''feed'' each other's illnesses by sharing tips and encouraging each other to stave off hunger and exhaustion.
Advice offered on one claiming to offer ''Healthy living tips'' includes: ''Work out twice as much as your skinny roommate'' and ''Look in the mirror and choose not to see any changes'' (in order to feel motivated to work even harder). The research clearly shows that online sites that offer this type of advice normalise unhealthy relationships with food and exercise, and may trigger the onset of eating disorders in vulnerable young people.
And finally, these pages aren't supporting girls to get fit or healthy so that they will feel good, but rather so they will simply look not just thin, but sexy.
One page, aimed at girls 13-25, tells its fans they should ''cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided''. The cover photo shows a girl's very large breasts in a skimpy white bikini (I'm not sure how you could exercise your way to those) and has its profile picture the almost obligatory shot of a headless girl (never a somebody, just a body) in skimpy undies holding up a midriff top to show her abdominal muscles.
Qualified Health and Fitness coach Amelia Burton explains: ''The difference between promoting healthy eating and exercise from a place of respect and love for your body versus a voyeuristic desire to be stick thin or to fit some sexy ideal is often blurred. And it makes me very angry as healthy diet and exercise offers so much more than just hot abs and bouncing breasts! For teen girls in particular, a balanced diet and sensible exercise program will assist them in many ways other than just the aesthetic: including eliminating stress, regulating sleep patterns and giving them the energy they need to study, work part time and party with their friends.''
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Piper Jaffray Research Analyst: Health and Wellness Stocks are Hot Investment Sector as Real Growth Rates Accelerating
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67 WALL STREET, New York - September 4, 2012 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Retail Report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This special feature contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. The full issue is available by calling (212) 952-7433 or via The Wall Street Transcript Online.
Topics covered: Brick-And-Mortar Versus Online Retail Sales - Cautious Consumer Spending - Specialty Hardlines and Softlines Retail - Strong Secular Growth in E-Commerce - International Retail Platforms
Companies include: Under Armour, Inc. (UA), Nike Inc. (NKE), Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU), Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. (DKS), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and many others.
In the following excerpt from the Retail Report, Piper Jaffray's Health and Wellness research analyst discusses the outlook for this unique investment category:
TWST: What is your retail coverage?
Mr. Naughton: My coverage universe is a little unique. I cover what we have termed active and healthy lifestyles. I have two relatively distinct sets of stocks that I follow. The one side focuses on organic and natural foods as well as the supplement business, which I would consider the health and wellness side, and then the second part is the active lifestyle side, which would be more focused on sporting goods as well as active apparel and active footwear. There are also some other pieces in here for fitness clubs that fit into the active side as well.
TWST: Are the active lifestyle and organic and natural foods/supplement spaces seeing the same kinds of trends right now, or are they experiencing two distinctly different situations?
Mr. Naughton: It's interesting. The active lifestyle space, in my opinion, is a category where the consumer is continuing to spend more money. I think that the fusion of fashion and function is well underway with what we've seen from apparel and footwear growth from Under Armour (UA), Nike (NKE), Lululemon (LULU) and those types of names. These are all companies that are clearly benefiting from trends within this entire lifestyle and the next leg of that growth is those brands continuing to offer the types of products that they do today with better fits, but also now introducing more technology. So whether it is chips inside of shoes or tracking on shirts to monitor heart rates inside of your body, I think those are the types of initiatives that will continue to drive innovation in that category and continue to drive share of wallet with the consumer.
TWST: What about with youth sports? Are sporting goods companies benefiting from that area as well?
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TDSB Health and Wellness academies open in Toronto and focus on students’ wellbeing
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Seairra Nemecek used to put too much pressure on herself to excel at school. The overachiever, whos in the gifted program, would stay awake into the wee hours perfecting assignments, bury her head in books while her friends played, and be crestfallen if she scored 100 per cent on a test, but got the bonus question wrong. Her parents feared her growing anxiety would result in a nervous breakdown.
But teachers at Donview Middle School organized an intervention of sorts and made her understand the importance of achieving balance in her life. It worked. She started hanging around her friends again, got more shuteye and learned to manage the time spent on school work. And her grades didnt suffer.
Its a philosophy the school is expanding this year as it becomes one of two health and wellness academies launched by the Toronto District School Board. The new focus of the schools will be on healthy living, physical activity, and social, emotional, mental and personal wellness.
The schools will still follow the provincial education curriculum, but teachers will infuse health and wellness themes into their lessons. For instance, journal writing may be about food choices and the different food groups. Math class may involve studying the sugar content of different juices. Novel studies may delve into mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression and self-harm.
These students really need to focus on health and wellness to be successful, says principal Sue Brown of what is now the Donview Middle Health and Wellness Academy. If they are not eating breakfast, physically fit, getting enough sleep or have anxiety and mental health issues, they have difficulty learning and cant be truly successful until these issues are addressed.
Weaving these issues into the curriculum is a way to sort of trick kids into getting the pumped about their health and the benefits, she says.
The health and wellness academies the other health-focused school is the Rene Gordon Elementary Health and Wellness Academy, also located near the Don Valley Parkway and York Mills Rd. are among the five different types of specialty schools the TDSB is starting this year. The other themed schools are: a girls leadership academy, a boys leadership academy, two vocal music academies, and three sports and wellness academies.
Details about the new specialty schools.
While many schools place importance on the health and well-being of their students, Donview now has a mandate and vision centred on the belief that a student whos healthy and well is better prepared for lifes challenges. To that end, staff developed five key areas of wellness to boost the students health: academic, physical, social, career and emotional/mental.
You do want to promote academic excellence, says Grade 8 teacher Audra Morgan. But at the same time, if youre teaching the whole child, you have to address the other issues.
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Why Absolute Health and Fitness ♥ Otago Polytechnic – Video
Posted: September 3, 2012 at 4:14 pm
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Gleeson helps executives improve their health
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When executives step into Dr. Robert Gleeson's exam room, they get a whole lot more than a standard blood pressure reading and a slight tap to the knee.
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Gleeson, a physician at Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa and a guest speaker at the 2012 BizTimes Milwaukee Fittest Execs program, specializes in executive health, preventive health care, adult health maintenance and prevention, and lipid and preventive cardiology.
As a member of the medical team for the past four years, Gleeson directs the Executive Health Program and also spearheads the preventive cardiology and lipid management under the medical center's cardiology unit.
In overseeing the Executive Health Program, he evaluates the health of corporate management teams both members who are in shape and others who are struggling and anyone interested in his extensive physical exam and consultation services. For each patient, Gleeson offers individualized advice on lifestyle changes to promote fitness and nutrition. To him, lifestyle makes all the difference in the world.
Most of Gleeson's patients are men, each of whom he meets with face-to-face for 75 to 90 minutes.
"I go into a lot of detail," Gleeson said. "Companies that really understand how much money they have invested in their key executives understand the value of finding and preventing disease."
Preventive health care is particularly important in today's market, when many companies have trimmed their staffs so that the management teams vital to their success consist of as few executives as possible, Gleeson said. These executives need to maintain their health in order to continue contributing to their companies' progress.
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Executives lead by example in Fittest Execs competition
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Top executives are tasked with leading their companies by example, and that can be crucial when it comes to making time for fitness.
Cathy Buck, president of Froedtert Hospital, was a finalist in the Fittest Execs competition.
While the finalists in the 2012 BizTimes Media Fittest Execs competition all lead busy lives, they find time in the morning, evening, or even between meetings to squeeze in workouts.
The Fittest Execs program recognizes executives who are leading the charge in encouraging wellness in the workplace.
"It's a celebration of a commitment to fitness for not only the participants, but really the companies who they represent," said Dan Meyer, owner of BizTimes Media. "What you do with fitness is one of the few things you can control with your health."
The competition included both individual and team entries. Individual qualifiers had to work as a CEO, CFO, COO, CIO, president, executive vice president, owner, partner, executive director, mayor, city manager, or city council member at a company or government organization with at least 20 employees in southeastern Wisconsin. Retired executives could also participate.
Teams were made up of four people, with an executive team leader and no other title limits. Companies could enter more than one team, and member scores were tabulated cumulatively.
Participants, who could be from any fitness level, were divided into categories based on gender and age and underwent fitness testing at the Wisconsin Athletic Club.
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