|News & Know How| News More Good News: Industry Job Growth! L
ast month, we reported some news about recent upbeat industry developments; among them, expansions and significant hirings at ABC Financial Services, a billing management company based
in Sherwood, Arkansas, and Town Sports International Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLUB), the large East Coast club chain. This month, we’d like to share some more:
Charter Fitness, a fitness-franchise and IHRSA-member company based in Orland Park, Illinois, plans to fill 200 new positions over the next 12 months. The jobs are being created by virtue of the conversion of 38 Cardinal Fitness locations into Charter Fitness operations: the facilities are situated in the Greater Chicago area, downstate Illinois, and northwest Indiana.
“We’re happy to be creating so many jobs for our communities,” says Dan Collins, the director of sales for Charter. “The additional staff is needed in order to increase our focus on the member experience and provide our communities with the very best in fitness services.” Among the slots the company is looking to fill are ones for managers, customer- service representatives, and personal trainers.
The converted clubs will also be renovated and receive new equipment. Charter Fitness has a total of 46 sites in six states. —|
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U.K. General Assembly Targets Chronic Disease Regular exercise is a key to eliminating lifestyle-related conditions
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n September, for the very first time, the General Assembly of the United Nations met to address the problem of chronic diseases, e.g., cancer, diabetes, and heart and lung disease, which are caused, in large part, by smoking, excessive drinking, lack of exercise, and unhealthy diets. In a 13-page political declaration detailing its findings, it expressed its “profound concern” about what it described as “a challenge of epidemic proportions.”
Dr. Otis Brawley
It noted that, in 2008, according to the World
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Health Organization (WHO), such conditions were responsible for 57 million deaths worldwide, including some 9 million men and women below the age of 60. “Noncommunicable diseases can be prevented and their impact reduced,” the declaration insisted, “with millions of lives saved and untold suffering avoided.”
At a concluding roundtable discussion, Prime Minister Denzil Douglas, of St. Kitts and Nevis, said: “Our
response must be urgent, it must be comprehensive, and it has to be fully coordi- nated at the national, regional, and local levels.” “This will be the first time that the U.N. has actually focused on the major killer of most people,” responded Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society (ACS). “We need this. We need a chronic disease movement. We need to drive attention toward overall health.” —|
Short Takes | Live Intensely and Long
A new study strongly suggests that exercise intensity can extend one’s lifespan. Following 5,000 healthy Danish cyclists, ages 21–90, for 20 years, it found that men who cycled quickly lived 5.3 years longer than those who cycled slowly, and, among women, a 3.9-year difference. The study was conducted by Dr. Peter Schnohr, of Bispebjerg University Hospital, in Copenhagen. —|
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