SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

American Council on Exercise (ACE), a leading authority on fitness and the worlds largest nonprofit fitness certification organization, is pleased to announce the launch of its new ACE Academy Elite, an interactive, video-led study tool designed to help aspiring professionals be more successful on the ACE Personal Trainer Certification Exam.

Through a video-led lecture series and custom progress tracking, ACE Academy Elite helps candidates retain the knowledge necessary to not only pass the exam but become better at their job later on.

When people decide to become personal trainers, as with any dream, they want to be the best at what they do. Getting there can be hard, said ACE Chief Science Officer Cedric Bryant, Ph.D. ACE Academy Elite coaches them every step of the way, and helps them learn the material like they would in a classroom. Bottom line, it helps them start their careers with a solid foundation.

Through video lectures led by ACE-certified professionals, reading assignments, custom progress tracking, interactive lesson quizzes, practice tests and a 2-hour Exam Review Course, ACE Academy Elite provides a fun, motivating e-learning environment that corresponds to existing ACE core study materials. The Web-based tool also comes with access to the ACE Resource Center, staffed with fitness professionals who answer study questions by phone or e-mail.

As a nonprofit organization, our mission at ACE is to create an army of qualified personal trainers who are equipped with the tools they need to help people live their most fit lives, Bryant said. ACE Academy Elite gets our candidates in excellent shape to do that. Using it is another way we can empower ACE-certified Personal Trainers to be the best in the industry.

ACE Academy Elite joins other study resources used by aspiring fitness professionals, including the Exam Prep blog and ACEStudyCenter Facebook page, designed to connect candidates with others who are studying and provide an open forum for questions.

The interactive tool is available as part of ACEs Premium and Premium Plus study bundles. For more information, please visit ACEfitness.org/PersonalTrainer or call (800) 825-3636.

About ACE

Since 1985, American Council on Exercise (ACE) has evolved from a small nonprofit dedicated to educating people about proper fitness to a 50,000-strong network of certified Personal Trainers, Group Fitness Instructors (GFI), Lifestyle & Weight Management Coaches (LWMC), and Advanced Health & Fitness Specialists (AHFS). As the largest NCCA-accredited nonprofit fitness certification organization in the world, ACE provides quality continuing education to professionals and conducts independent science-based research to protect all Americans from unsafe and ineffective products. Our goal is to inspire people to live their most fit lives through free fitness resources including workouts, nutrition information and expert advice. For more information, call (800) 825-3636 or visit ACEfitness.org. AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EXERCISE, ACE and ACE logos are Registered Trademarks of the American Council on Exercise.

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WORCESTER, Mass., July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --With the Summer Olympic Games expected to boost participation in organized, amateur sports as well as fitness activities, The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (THG), is helping independent agents tackle this large and steadily growing market.

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Through Sports & Fitness Advantage, The Hanover's agent partners can offer amateur sports and fitness-related businesses and organizations a broad, customizable line of industry-specific products as well as specialized loss control and claims services to provide complete and specialized protection.

The distinctive offering is available to agents through The Hanover's local middle market underwriters and small niche underwriters. It is one of the many industry-specific products and services within the company's Middle Market Advantage portfolio, which covers dozens of niches and segments. The Hanover's expertise helps agents capitalize on opportunities in specialized industries, creating more value for its agencies and their customers.

"We are dedicated to continuing to grow our innovative suite of industry capabilities to meet the needs of our partners, who increasingly are becoming more specialized," said Jack Roche, president, business insurance. "With this in mind, we are pleased to offer a comprehensive program that meets the unique needs of the amateur sports and fitness industrywhich is one of the fastest growing segments of our economy."

The program is available for a broad range of organizations and businesses, including:

The total solution provides customized coverage for commercial property, general liability, auto, umbrella, employment practices liability, emergency event management, professional liability and green buildings. Other highlights of The Hanover's Sports & Fitness Advantage include:

Emergency Event Managementincludes broad coverage to respond to emergencies such as actual or attempted acts of violence. Coverage includes income lost as well as public relations expenses, and post-event expenses such as medical treatment and victim counseling

Property Broadening Endorsementincludes 55 separate coverages, such as denial of access to an insured's premises, eCommerce and money and securities loss. The blanket limit also automatically includes six important coverages: accounts receivable; consequential loss of stock; electronic data processing equipment; fine arts; personal effects; and outdoor property

General Liability Broadening Endorsementprovides additional coverage that many Sports & Fitness organizations need, such as for subcontracted employees such as instructors, massage therapists, trainers and financial sponsors

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

National 4-H Council and UnitedHealthcare are expanding their partnership to promote healthy living by launching a new campaign designed to empower youth to help tackle the nations obesity epidemic.

The UnitedHealthcare 4-H Eat4-Health campaign begins this summer in 10 states, activating thousands of 4-H youth ambassadors to make healthy choices for themselves and encourage friends, families and people in their communities to make positive changes through training, creative programs and educational events.

Eat4-Health builds on UnitedHealthcares successful partnership with 4-H that began last year in Florida, Mississippi and Texas. The campaign will expand to a total of 10 states to include Arizona, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee. Each state will receive a $30,000 grant funded by UnitedHealthcare to support healthy-living programs, events and other activities administered by 4-H that encourage young people and their families to eat more nutritious foods and exercise regularly.

The program was officially launched today with more than 400 4-H youth and community leaders at the Tennessee State 4-H Round-Up and All Star Conference. They joined UnitedHealthcares mascot Dr. Health E. Hound in a discussion about the importance of healthy living and participated in a group exercise activity.

4-H is pleased to expand its partnership with UnitedHealthcare and launch this new campaign to empower youth to help improve the health of their peers, their families and their communities, said Donald T. Floyd Jr., president and CEO of National 4-H Council. 4-H youth ambassadors are prepared to work with UnitedHealthcare to make a positive impact on the health and wellness of our nations future leaders.

The Eat4-Health program is making a positive difference in the lives of so many families in communities that are hardest hit by the childhood obesity epidemic, said Russell C. Petrella, Ph.D., president of UnitedHealthcare Community & State, a UnitedHealth Group (UNH) company. UnitedHealthcare and 4-H look forward to expanding the program in more states and harnessing the energy and excitement of 4-H youth to promote healthy living.

Participating 4-H state programs receiving a grant will develop action plans that provide innovative, hands-on learning approaches that target specific community needs in their state. Many of these activities will support healthy living programs led by 4-H that encourage youth and community participation through events such as health fairs, cooking demonstrations, after-school programs, workshops and educational forums, among others. UnitedHealthcare employees will team up with 4-H at many of these events, assisting with planning and executing projects that lead to positive, sustainable change at the community and individual level.

As part of the Eat4-Health campaign, each state will organize and host a Youth Summit/Conference to train 4-H youth ambassadors to implement programs and reach goals in each state. The summits will provide the venue where participants will learn more about nutrition, health and fitness, obtain information on promoting health within their communities, and gain new tools for participating in multi-session educational trainings and one-time community activities and events.

This teen leadership experience will also serve as a launch to a Teen Ambassadors pledge and prepare 4-Hers to use their increased healthy-living knowledge and skills to make an impact in their own communities.

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David Icke, CEO of MC10, wants you to feel like an Olympian. The company wants to provide users with sophisticated knowledge to fuel individual fitness and improve health, all through wearable electronics.

During a TEDMED talk this past spring, Icke lamented that electronics for fitness and medicine havent experienced the rapid innovation seen in computing and communications. Icke envisions unobtrusive technology that is worn on, and even in, our bodies. What if electronics conformed to us, instead of us conforming to them? ... Reshaping electronics will change medicine and advance [our] quality of life, he says.

MC10 has announced a Sports Advisory Board of respected professional athletes to help shape the next generation of athletic performance monitoring devices. (Read more on this group here.) MC10s groundbreaking technology will provide athletes of all stripes with critical performance information that will inform the way we all train and compete, said Grant Hill of the NBAs LA Clippers.

Ickes presentation from TEDMED can be seen here:

The biggest opportunity offered by wearable electronics, he claims, is to unlock the mysteries of human biology so that we understand what makes us sick, and what expands our capacities. Imagine what we dont know today that we will learn from a closer look at our systems, which is possible when sensing and computing electronics conform to us, he says.

Technology Review wrote about the self-quantification movement in its July/August cover story, The Measured Life, by Emily Singer.

David Icke is speaking at Technology Reviews annual EmTech MIT conference this October.

The conference will further explore the next wave of personal quantification: genomics. A forthcoming post will preview speakers who will share new ways that gene sequencing technologies are enabling personal genomics to redefine medicine.

Register today for EmTech 2012, coming up October 2425 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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EmTech Preview: David Icke of MC10 on the Revolution in Fitness and Health Tools

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25-07-2012 14:01 Take a look at ALL the amazing equipment, facilities, and atmosphere provided at Trinity Health and Fitness! Listen to what people are saying about how Trinity has changed their lives!

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The Gillard government recently announced that boys will be included in the nations free vaccination program to eliminate cervical cancer. Its the first time any nation has done so and the media made an effort to promote our world-first status.

Whats less well-known is that well be the first country to start protecting future generations of gay men.

The reason this good news story fell by the wayside is that weve fallen victim to the oversimplification of the issues around cervical cancer, the Gardasil vaccine, and one hell of a nasty sexually transmitted infection.

So let me start by taking a few questions:

Q: They gave that stuff to girls to stop them getting the cancer all up their lady bits. Why would they give it to guys too?

Thats right anonymous figure of my own creation, the Gardasil vaccine has been given free to girls and young women for a few years now. Back when it was starting there was a whole bunch of publicity about it being the cervical cancer vaccine. Hell, we even made the guy who invented it Australian of the Year and made him honourary hero of cervixes.

Thats kind of wrong. The vaccine doesnt immunise you against cancer, it immunises you against a virus that causes the cancer. But cervical cancer is only the main billing of what this virus does. It also causes genital warts, followed by cancers on your throat, tonsils, genitals of whatever flavour, and finally, cancer of the ass.

One virus can cause all these shitty-ass cancers. The vaccine stops that virus.

Q: Ohhh, thats nasty. What the hell is this thing?

Probably heard of it: the Humanpapilloma virus, HPV in brief. It is particularly nasty for a few reasons.

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PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Vmersion-Health introduces Gluco-Share, a mobile smart device application that connects people living with diabetes with their family and friends through a private and secure social media network. The Gluco-Share app is a free download available at the Apple iTunes store.

Gluco-Share enables persons living with diabetes to monitor their blood sugar (glucose) levels and to communicate that information in real time to their circle of family and friends. In turn, family and friends communicate their support, providing social and psychological encouragement that empowers a person to maintain their medical regimen and live a fuller life.

The daily support and understanding people living with diabetes receive from their social circle can make a significant difference in how effectively they manage the disease, said Joseph Madden, president and CEO of Vmersion-Health. Gluco-Share harnesses technology already available on a smart device data input, chat, text, notifications and badges- to create a private, secure and fun supportive social network.

As an application, Gluco-Share provides three interrelated functions: Check, Share and Reward.

CHECK: Persons with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes receive friendly automated reminders to check blood glucose levels. The Check function provides data fields for glucose values, med units, and personal comments and automatically registers date and time.

SHARE: Gluco-Share communicates data and alerts in real time to persons within the diabetics social circle of parents, family and friends, allowing them to share in the frequency of the diabetics checking of glucose levels. A chat function allows family and friends to offer supportive comments or to just say hello and maintain normal social relationships.

REWARD: Gluco-Share features a Challenge system that rewards frequent checking and provides fun and educational games that encourage interplay among Gluco-Share members.

As a parent of a Type 1 child, I understand the importance and frustration- of ensuring that my child has checked his blood sugar, said Madden. Gluco-Share is the first app that has a reward system based on the frequency of checking ones blood sugar, not just the numeric value. I can say from my own experience that using the app has improved the quality of my communication and my relationship with my child.

Gluco-Share shares data, chat, challenges and games among multiple users in the members network. Unlike other diabetes apps that use email, Gluco-Share allows real-time data sharing and chat. The users network of family and friends instantaneously receive text messages, glucose-checking notifications, and game and challenge status updates.

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23-07-2012 17:41 As of lately, I have been asked so many times to start doing more health and fitness videos! Well here you go, my very first video that is related to health and fitness. You can't expect to see results if you don't eat right. There are days where I will cheat, but if I do I will do so moderately. It is healthy to cheat, because if you don't, you won't stick to your diet and will end up binge eating! Also eat healthy foods that you enjoy eating, not things that you hate to eat because you won't stick to your diet. I love cooking and eating healthy that is why I am able to stick to my diet! Would you like to see a video where I show you the typical meals I eat? Click here for my outfit of the day video of this outfit! Links! Website: Twitter Facebook: Instagram: FTC: All opinions are my own, and I purchased everything shown in this video! (:

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23-07-2012 23:32 Hello ! how are you? I am on here to try to help everyone eat better and exercise If you need any help with that email me or call (607) 483-8445 please do notforget to eat raw organic fruit (focusing on the fruit) vegetables (especially dark leafy greens) nuts and seeds and exercise two hours or two miles (walking) a day everyday huge hugs remember you are loved huge hugs dedicating all my videos to my mom who passed on to Heaven April 24, 2012 She will be enormously missed.

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