Fitness Pros, owned by Westly Garvin, recently opened at 1168 Orangeburg Mall Circle.
The gym specializes in body building, fitness training and cardio workouts and features spin bikes; no-cable plate-loading equipment; free motion and elliptical equipment and more. Showers and lockers are available in the 3,100-square-foot building.
Garvin invites the public to come in to try out the equipment.
Fitness Pros offers non-contractual agreements Read the rest of this entry »
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – When 57-year-old fitness instructor Paula Hickle woke up in a cold sweat, unable to breathe, she knew that something had gone terribly wrong.
Hickle had taught Pilates classes for years and received constant praise from her doctors for her great physical condition.
“(My doctor) said to me, ‘Paula you are so healthy. You’ll never die of a heart attack or stroke,’” Hickle said.
But in the middle of the night last year, all Read the rest of this entry »
Bay County, Fla:
A new year is almost upon us and what better time to start some healthy habits. If getting in shape and sticking to a fitness program is one of your resolutions, here’s some tips to get off on the right foot.
Fitness experts say start with changes in your workouts by doing something new and different to challenge your body.
There’s also no reason to go overboard. Work out 3 to 4 times a week, and sometimes only Read the rest of this entry »
There have been lots of rumors about Jennifer Aniston,
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and John Mayer and their relationships in the last
few days.
But I’d like to know something about the diet Aniston
follows.
After all, she has been in
great shape and no wonder she was once picked by a magazine as one of the most
beautiful women in the world.
There is not much reported about Aniston’s diet, unfortunately.
But it seems this beautiful movie star at Read the rest of this entry »
The health crisis in Zimbabwe should be the investigated by the International Criminal Court, campaign group Physicians for Human Rights says. The physicians group also says that without a political solution, the health care system, water and sanitation should be taken over by the United Nations.
The death toll from Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic has climbed over 2,000, as an international doctors’ group accuses the government of President Robert Mugabe Read the rest of this entry »
What are the dietary recommendations for the three days preceding the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)?
—G. Tadros, MD, Wilmington, Del.В
Many centers offering the OGTT recommend eating a balanced diet containing at least 150-200 g of carbohydrate per day for three days before the test. However, a study of pregnant women screened for gestational diabetes suggests that this diet may be unnecessary as it does not significantly affect Read the rest of this entry »
BALTIMORE – Many Americans who have lost their jobs and health insurance have a number of resources in which to turn to stay healthy and out of emergency rooms.
Across the nation, about 600,000 people lost their jobs last month, and many are also losing their health insurance.
Angela Newman said she lost her job and her health insurance in August. She has two children, one of whom is asthmatic.
“The concern was the medication, the doctor’s visits Read the rest of this entry »
The U.S. Family Health Plan, a Department of Defense-sponsored health care plan that serves military families, had 2008 member satisfaction ratings that were 42% higher than the national average, according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s Quality Compass 2008 Public Report.
The plan is offered through six hospital and physician networks, including Johns Hopkins Medicine, which serves Maryland and Washington, D.C.
The plan Read the rest of this entry »
This groundbreaking new drug combines two modern technologies:
biotechnology and nanotechnology. This incredible technology is analogous to
the concept of a Trojan Horse, and is expected to have very far reaching
implications for other cancer treatments. The product consists of cell matter
that is modified to have the same genetic code as the cancer cells, but that
matter is not viable food for the tumor cells. The cell matter is then placed
in Read the rest of this entry »
Despite the danger associated with freestyle motocross, Lusk is believed to be the first pro rider to have
suffered in an FMX contest, though several have incurred serious injuries.
Lusk, who was born San Diego in 1984 and had been riding motorcycles since he was 3, turned pro at 19. He was coming off his most successful year.
He won his first X Games gold medal in the freestyle motocross competition last summer at the Home Depot Center, and Read the rest of this entry »