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By Air Force Senior Airman Justin T. Armstrong 5th Bomb Wing

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, North Dakota, March 15, 2017 With spring right around the corner, airmen will begin to exercise outdoors for a variety of reasons, including getting in shape for the summer.

To get the most out of workouts, whether losing fat or gaining muscle, the Health and Wellness Center here says its important to know a little bit about how your body works.

The center has a tool called the Bod Pod to help with fitness goals. The pod is available for active duty military members, family members age 17 and older, Department of Defense retirees and civilian contractors.

Tracking an Individuals Resting Metabolic Rate

The Bod Pod is used to determine body fat and weight, as well as measure resting metabolic rate, said Lori Halvorson, Health and Wellness Center health promotion coordinator. Your RMR is the amount of calories that your body burns at rest -- everyones rate is different.

According to Halvorson, its important to know your RMR, especially if the goal is to lose fat or gain muscle mass.

Without knowing your RMR, youre not maximizing your workouts, Halvorson said. Not getting enough calories can slow your metabolism, burning lean muscle instead of fat.

After a Bod Pod measurement, Sheena Swanner, the HAWCs registered dietitian nutritionist, interprets the results to advise a safe calorie intake amount.

From their RMR, I can better work with a patient to reach their calorie intake and weight goals, Swanner said. The Bod Pod isnt only for athletes or overweight individuals. Its for everyone.

The entire appointment takes about 15 minutes, most of which is getting properly clothed for the machine. An individual will only spend about a minute in the Bod Pod itself.

Wear Loose Clothing for a Bod Pod Session

There are two guidelines for airmen interested in using the Bod Pod. Dont eat, drink or exercise within two hours prior to the appointment, and wear form-fitting spandex to ensure an accurate reading.

Proper, form-fitting clothing is important, because the Bod Pod relies on air displacement to measure body composition. Lose clothing can render a less accurate reading.

I personally think the Bod Pod is awesome -- its fast and its 99.7-percent accurate, Halvorson said. Members can also come back in eight to 10 weeks to compare their results. Its a great motivator.

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Are you ready to play fitness fact or fiction? There is a lot of information out there regarding what makes a workout work - but not all of it is accurate. Its time to finally bust those misleading myths and silence those know-it-all burpee buddies offering too much unsolicited advice on your cardio competency.

Here are the cold, hard facts:

Myth: Static stretching before exercise prevents strains and sprains.

Fact: Believe it or not, the stretching game is a little more advanced than propping your leg up on a bench and leaning in. Anytime we hold a stretch for a period of time, that is called a static stretch. Contrarily, dynamic stretches are designed to serve as a mini-workout before the main event, and are characterized by the use of momentum.

Recent studies suggest swapping static stretches for dynamic stretches prior to exercise for a safer, more effective warm up. For example, implement dynamic stretches like high knees, toe touches or jogging in place, as it simulates the bodys mechanics and eases the muscles into exercise.

Myth: The treadmill is safer on my knees than pavement.

Fact: Running is a high-impact exercise, so whether you are on a treadmill or asphalt, your knees are taking a beating. Avoid running-related aches and pains by mixing in other forms of cardio during the week, such as the elliptical, cycling or even taking a Barre class. Switching up your workout is the best way to prevent overuse injuries. Your knees will thank you for it.

Myth: SIt ups are the key to washboard abs.

Fact: While sit ups do strengthen a small portion of the abdominal area, they wont whittle away your waistline. Not only do these crunches miss the mark on crushing calories, they also add a ton of stress to the neck and spine when done incorrectly. If you want to tone your abs, stick to a solid core curriculum of planks and bridges; and always remember that abs are made in the kitchen. A lean body is only possible with a healthy diet and exercise.

If you want to be a workout buff, you have to know the facts.

Earn it.

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Elanation Eturbo and iOS app

Katherine Pace, CEO of children's lifestyle tech startup Elanation, believes that while children are born "digital natives", the more they are handed iPads, computers, mobile phones, wearables, and smart garments, the more cases of childhood obesity and digital depression or addiction emerge.

In response, Pace and her co-founder Aimee Atkins decided to build a suite of technology products for kids, with a health-focused twist on the usual products marketed at those aged eight to 12.

Elanation raised its oversubscribed seed capital round in July last year, and was in the market within five months with a hardware and software platform.

The first product Elanation took to market was the Eturbo Sports Wristband, a smart wearable that measures steps, distance, heart rate, and has a touchscreen. The "cool factor", Pace said, is the fact that it connects to a virtual world.

"Every step in the real world translates into a virtual game advancement," Pace explained. "10,000 steps a day unlocks video content from sporting athletes across Australia, teaching the child new sporting tips and tricks.

"So we're using technology to create really healthy habits of play with children."

In addition, Elanation caps game play at 30 minutes per day and omits functions such as calorie counting.

Elanation plays in a very niche space, but Pace is certain it's a big one. With 2.5 million eight- to 12-year-olds in Australia, and over 41 million in the US, she said there is great potential for her company to succeed.

"There's a lot of money spent on children each year, and if you look at the pocket money segment of a child in Australia, it's an average of AU$10 a week and $15 in the US, so in Australia that's a AU$2.5 billion market -- that's just the pocket money spend," she said.

Pace has a background in engineering and design, and explained that she was constantly being trained to look at the anthropology of humans and find a problem that lacked a solution.

Prior to Elanation, Pace was working on another startup, Vame, which is a digital platform allowing people who are fluent in different dialects to record the personal pronunciation of their name and add it to their email signature and online profiles.

She also spent some time with PwC as a venture lead for Innovation and Digital Ventures, following a stint in Denmark working for various firms.

With 20-plus years of experience in working with children's products and kids' entertainment, Atkins -- who was the original Dorothy the Dinosaur in the Wiggles -- highlighted to Pace one day that one in three children in Australia is obese, and that she saw an opportunity to turn this around.

"At that time, I had only ever built technology for adults," Pace said.

But while sitting in an airport in India, a child immersed in their iPad set off fireworks in Pace's mind and Elanation was born.

"I've been blessed with being surrounded by some of the best, and it was really obvious at that point it didn't matter if it was a first-world country or a third-world country, no one was building technology that was for kids and encouraging them to be a child," she said.

Pace and Atkins kicked off "mission more impossible", going to market with software and hardware that also covered gaming, the Internet of Things (IoT), and fitness tracking.

"Everyone said it was impossible, and we were in market within five months and we had 2,500 users across Australia in the first month -- and they're clocking in every day for 10 minutes from a kids' perspective," she said. "We've proven there's a demand."

Atkins' passion for kids and Pace's passion for hardware and software resulted in a strong competitive advantage for the company; however, the duo couldn't do it alone. In order to achieve its large-scale goals, Elanation turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

"Elanation has huge growth goals," Pace said. "And when we choose to partner with a company, we look at three different things: The utility that they can provide, the way they operate, and the industry."

Somewhat inspired by what AWS is doing, Pace said that as a company with over 250,000 employees, AWS is moving in an "agile" manner, and swiftly moving into new industries such as IoT.

"If we look at Amazon as a whole, they are dominating IoT in the consumer market with the Amazon Alexa and trailblazing integration of that with the connected home," she explained.

"So for us, yes we have IoT and we're not yet integrating with the Amazon IoT platform, we are on SDK, but for the second and third IoT that we introduce, we will definitely look at leveraging those utilities."

As an early stage company, Pace said it also helps to see that AWS has assisted companies like Canva and Atlassian through their growth phases.

"Our lawyer is the same as Atlassian's who took them from seed to scale. He believes in Elanation, and it's really important to surround yourselves with people who have been there and can somewhat preempt the hurdles that you're going to walk through," she said.

"IoT is hard, and there are a lot of people trying to crack it. If you go to CES [Consumer Electronics Show] you'll see a lot of single players there.

"We are the first company that we know of globally that connected hardware to a game."

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The Personal Health Investment Today (PHIT) Act, a bill introduced to Congress this month, seeks to expand the tax-related definition of "medical expense" to include qualifying preventative fitness and wellness expenses. Proponents of the bill believe that by lifting some of the financial burden associated with fitness gear, gym memberships, and other means of living an active and healthy lifestyle, total spending on healthcare in America could go down.

The proposed legislation would allow up to $1,000 ($2,000 for joint filers) of pre-tax funds, via a health savings account (HSA) or similar types of flexible spending accounts, to be used for things like sports gear and even personal trainers -- though not items that might be used outside of fitness, such as running shoes or golf shirts. Depending on your tax bracket, that could mean around a 30% tax savings on qualifying fitness expenses.

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Despite the plethora of information available on health and preventive care, Americans are increasingly undergoing very costly treatments for preventable conditions like obesity and high blood pressure, according to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA), the group that's helped to craft the bill. According to PHITAmerica.org, a quarter of Americans are totally inactive, and two-thirds are not active to healthy standards. "We need a culture change, and that happens by helping people to have the resources to make the right choices," SFIA vice president Bill Sells said in an interview, "and to help children to get that access as they grow up."

Other proponents of the bill include the American Heart Association and American College of Sports Medicine, and even professional athletes like former major-league baseball All-Star Steve Garvey, who lobbies on behalf of the bill. In a phone interview with The Motley Fool Garvey said: "I'm 68 and I grew up in the '50s, and the evolution over the years of what to eat and a greater awareness of how specific habits and practices can affect health for the better has grown...But at the same time, with more disposable income and a faster-paced society, even with a better understanding of fitness and health, people are far more sedentary. Even in sports, it's very organized and you don't just find your friends and go play in a field, you have travel teams for little kids with set practices and more costs. It's much more of a challenge now to really have daily exercise."

There are some questions the bill will undoubtedly face as it makes its way through Congress, such as how to control the gray area of what constitutes a qualifying expense. For example, a Fitbit-style wearable tracker would likely be covered, but more broad-use smartwatches wouldn't be, since fitness isn't their primary function; for many products, that line could easily be blurred. Then there's the question of whether this act is broad enough to help those who may not have access to these kinds of flexible spending accounts.

Still, SIFA vice president Sells believes the bill seeks a relatively modest change. "This act would only add six words to the IRS definition of a medical expense," says Sells, "physical activity as form of prevention." Also, the current administration seems to support HSAs and the role they could play in planned changes to healthcare legislation.

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The bill has been around for some time, and was actually introduced before, though it has never made it far enough to be brought to a vote. The bill's backers believe that it's gaining traction now, and are encouraged by its level of bipartisan support, something that seems rare in Washington lately: More than 100 members of Congress across political parties have supported it, and 12 are official co-sponsors. One of its biggest champions is Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), who introduced the current bill to the House of Representatives on March 1, and who hopes to use his own story to further the bill's prospects.

In an interview with The Motley Fool, Rep. Smith said that he's a smaller person now than when he got to Washington, and that after losing 70 pounds in the last few years, he is no longer on prescription medications for high blood pressure and cholesterol. Congressman Smith now gets together with various colleagues in Washington for morning workouts that he says have gotten the nickname "bipartisan biceps." He believes that the bill's focus on lowering the cost of healthcare and allowing consumers to take charge of their own healthcare is the kind of legislation that has a good chance of getting passed at a time when Congress, controlled by his party, is making changes to current healthcare legislation.

"You're looking at the largest driver of government expense is healthcare, and it's projected that healthcare costs could roughly increase $1 trillion in the next 5 years," Smith said. "I think it's extremely important that we promote preventative care, that we promote wellness, and that's what this bill does,which will only lower the cost of healthcare in the future. And I'm the prime example of how it does that."

As expected, the bill also has support from athletic companies like Nike (NYSE:NKE), Under Armour (NYSE:UAA) (NYSE:UA), Adidas (NASDAQOTH:ADDYY), and others. It's easy to see why these kinds of companies would support such a bill: not only to increase incentives for people to buy more of the gear they make, but also to help grow the overall culture of fitness in the U.S., which presumably would help the fitness and sports industry as a whole. These companies have long been members of the SFIA, supporting its goals for more physical education funding to this PHIT Act, and each is sending athletes and/or representatives of its own when the SFIA lobbies Congress about the bill on March 22, the designated National Health Through Fitness Day.

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GPS running/biking apps are one of the newest ways to express oneself. One boy even ran 5.5 miles to ask his girlfriend to prom.

A group of cyclists in Perth, Australia, just took it to the next level, though. They biked 120 miles just to make this shape.

Look at the detail in this goat!! The group thought of everything, from the twisted horns to the cloven hooves.

Strava is an app popular in Australia that functions the same as MapMyRun or Runkeeper. It works with running and cycling.

According to The Telegraph, the group wants to plot other animal-shaped bike rides. They also hope others will use the goat path theyve carved out.

People love it, cyclist Ben Jones said. We are hoping that a few other people will have a crack at it and, in the spirit of Strava, try and do it faster than we did it."

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Planet Fitness expanding to Hawaii with location at Ala Moana Center Ala Moana Center announces dates for six new tenants opening this year

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Planet Fitness will be joining Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th and Target in the old Nordstrom building at Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, Pacific Business News has learned.

On Monday, PBN broke the news that the New Hampshire-based international fitness chain was expanding to Honolulu with a new location at the states largest shopping mall.

Planet Fitness is taking a portion of the first floor of the former Nordstrom building more

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An exact location was not immediately known, although PBN has confirmed through the architect working on the project Honolulu-based MGA Architecture that Planet Fitness is taking a portion of the first floor of the former Nordstrom building with Kona Street frontage. Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, which will be taking up 41,000 square feet of first floor, is slated to open this summer. Target, which is leasing 136,525 square feet including part of the first level and entire second and third levels, is scheduled to open in October.

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Fitness is all the rage these days; we all want it but for some of us, were not quite sure the best way to get fit.

Local fitness expert Sean McCawley understands this all too well.

At McCawleys business, Napa Tenacious Fitness, its not about losing a little weight or popping into his studio for a few sessions.

This is not a place to come to lose 10 pounds and then drop out, absolutely not, McCawley said.

Its not just a weight-loss service, its not just a strength and conditioning service, this is more of what I would call lifetime fitness.

And dont confuse what he does with the large group classes and one-size-fits-all programs some large gyms offer.

At Napa Tenacious, its all one-on-one instruction customized specifically for you and no one else, said this small business owner.

I like to call myself more of a coach than a trainer, McCawley explained.

My goal to help people learn how to feel better, which involves establishing a fitness and nutrition routine that turns into a lifestyle routine. My clients tend to stick with it over several years and that makes a profound difference in peoples lives.

It costs nothing to have an initial three sessions with McCawley, he said.

Its important that people trust me before they commit, he said. The only way to build the trust is to spend some time with them. Even first-timers should not feel intimidated, he said.

The first time you come in I like to do more of an assessment to see where you are physically, he said.

The second visit is a concentrated exercise routine where I take the data from the initial assessment and then apply it to the second training session. The third session we take it a little farther. The exercises I design for the programs are very simple, I put focus on lower body movement, no matter what, every time you come in. Then upper body pushing and pulling movements.

Those three take the priority, and then for the rest of the session well implement core movements like bicep, triceps target areas for instance, he said.

These are totally customized programs for each individual that comes in, because everyone is a little different. Each client gets their own folder and what I like to do is 4-week exercise phases where we will track all their prescribed exercises for four weeks. Each week, within a phase, we increase either the weights or the reps. After four weeks, I design a new 4-week program and then we start again.

McCawleys method uses what he refers to as progressive overload where the muscles are progressively overloaded for the first three weeks of each phase. Thats how you progress, he said.

The first three weeks will always be a progressive overload where the challenge of the exercises will increase. And then on the fourth week, we taper down to de-stress the body. You cant just keep stressing and stressing and stressing; it doesnt work that way, he said.

Over three months, six months and a year, his customers start to accrue those permanent strength changes, he said.

But lifetime fitness is about a lot more than just working out, according to McCawley.

I also do nutritional consulting and thats included in the services my clients sign up for. To find out what people are currently eating, I like to use the metaphor of a lunchbox. I want to look inside my clients lunchbox and see whats in there. I will then ask them if they think thats a good diet, and most times they will admit its not.

McCawley explained how it works.

We do a one-on-one nutritional session where I educate them on portion size, whats a carbohydrate, whats a fat, whats a protein and so forth. Those are really important things that a lot of people just dont know, he said. For instance, If you want to lose weight, 7-9 small meals a day will help because your body can absorb carbohydrates, protein and fat more efficiently. And If you absorb them efficiently, they are used efficiently and dont go into storage. Thats what love handles are, he said.

Who is McCawleys prime target market? Just about everyone, he said.

I think of myself as the Swiss army knife of personal trainers so my current clients are all over the board. I have teenaged boys and girls who play competitive sports, I have 20- to 50-year-olds who are also looking to get into shape and make the exercise routines we design for them more a part of their life. I even work with people into their 80s and beyond.

McCawley said he has about a 50-50 split among men and women.

I also work a lot with people and athletes rehabbing injuries, and some of the fitness routines we do in here work very well. Rehabbing on your own is hard, he said. Having a coach help you helps you stick to your program makes a big difference.

But fitness can do a lot more than make you feel and look better, McCawley noted. If you are out of shape and sedentary you are absolutely taking years off your life.

The trick is to keep moving to keep breathing, and a regular fitness program helps you do that.

Becoming more fit is empowering, McCawley said, and that can empower you to take on other adventures in your life you might never have thought of.

I see this transformation in my clients all the time. People get empowered to do amazing things, and I have to say, humbly. Its nice to be a part of that.

McCawley said he also assigns clients fitness homework every week. It gives people exercises to do this at least once a week for 15-20 minutes, and even that can make a real difference, he noted.

You might wonder what sort of commitment McCawleys customized programs involve.

I dont do any more than three days a week, but I would like to see everyone do at least one session a week, two would even be better, he noted.

Sessions are by appointment only. Call 707-287-2727 or email McCawley at napatenacious@gmail.com. His studio is located at 1812 Soscol Ave. in Napa.

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Right in the heart of the University of Vermont, Burlington campus, there's a big dormitory going up, with room enough for 700 students next fall.

The dorm is being set aside for students like Azilee Curl, a first-year studying neuroscience who has taken a pledge of sorts to live out her college career at UVM with her health in mind.

She's part of a growing group on campus who all live together in a clean-living residence hall, have fitness and nutrition coaches at the in-house gym, and can access free violin lessons, yoga and mindfulness training.

There's also zero tolerance for drugs and alcohol use here one infraction and you're out.

Dr. Jim Hudziak, a pediatric neuropsychiatrist at UVM's Medical School, started the program about two years ago. His message is clear: Take good care of your young mind.

"The most critical part of the brain, for paying attention, for regulating your emotions, for making good decisions, has not even been organized yet," he says, talking about the college-age brain.

For the program, he teaches a mandatory course called "Healthy Brains, Healthy Bodies" where students learn that even at 18- and 19-years-old, their brains are still developing, and will keep doing so even after they graduate.

"When I heard about it, it made me really excited to come to UVM. It really, really sparked my interest," says Azilee Curl. Studying neuroscience, she says "It just didn't make sense to read about it and not live it."

Hudziak says UVM, which has a reputation as a party school, is trying to mitigate risk of binge drinking, and other risky behaviors, as soon as students arrive on campus.

"You get accepted to college, and we celebrate the fact that we are putting a wildly unprepared, underdeveloped brain in a high-risk environment."

But grooming health-conscious students might not be the only incentive for UVM. As colleges compete for a smaller pool of students in New England, administrators hope applicants find Hudziak's program a reason to come to the Burlington campus. It's a heavily marketed option for incoming students.

UVM administrators predict Hudziak's program will grow, too. They're expecting more than 1,200 students to enroll next fall, up from 400 total students this year. And maybe the messaging is working. According to reports, drug violations are down on campus.

Still, for every one student in the wellness program, there are about 25 who aren't.

"It was probably gonna be too regimented for my lifestyle," says 19-year-old Emily Bruggeman from Hebron, Conn. "I like to be a little bit more autonomous in terms of my well-being and stuff like that." You hear that a lot on campus.

For those already in the program, Hudziak says, nearly everyone sticks around for a second year.

"I have this prevailing belief that young people, given the opportunity to make good decisions, would choose to make good decisions. But they have to be in an environment where those choices are as easily available as high-risk decisions."

His program is capturing the attention of higher education leaders across the country. He says leaders at more than 20 other schools, including New York University, Tulane and Boston University, have reached out seeking advice.

Lydia Emmanouilidou contributed to the reporting for this story.

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Four miles into a planned 10-mile run in Seattles Golden Gardens park on Sunday, 36-year-old Kelly Herron stopped for what she thought would be a quick bathroom break. But when she stepped out of a public bathroom stall, it was anything but.

In a viral Instagram post, Herron recounted being brutally attacked on by a man hiding in the restroom.

I fought for my life screaming("Not today, M**F**er!"), clawing his face, punching back, and desperately trying to escape his grip- never giving up, Heron wrote in the post, which had received more than 26,000 likes as of Tuesday morning. I was able to lock him in the bathroom until police arrived. Thankfully I just took a self-defense class offered at my work and utilized all of it.

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In the post, Herron features three photos, including one of her bloody face with a gash above her left eyebrow and a wound on her left nostril and another with an aerial view of the bathroom with red lines from the GPS in her fitness tracker, which documented the harrowing attack.

According to police, the attacker was Gary Steiner, a 40-year-old registered sex offender in Arizona who has a history of assaulting women, ABC News reported.

Herron told ABC she fought Steiner off by scratching and hitting the side of his face, aiming for hard bones and fleshy places, just as she learned in her self-defense class three weeks earlier.

"All those little things that I learned in my life ... how to punch and everything came back to me," she told ABC. "I started to feel like I was going to lose consciousness ... but I got another surge of adrenaline, and I reached for the door and was able to get out."

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Steiner is reportedly being held in jail on $750,000 bail. According to ABC, he faces charges of attempted rape in the second degree, as well as second degree assault.

Herrons attack is only the latest in a string of assaults on runners. Sherri Papini, the 34-year-old California mother who disappeared after a run late last year, was rescued after her attackers reportedly branded her then tossed her from an SUV.

ABC pointed out a Runners World magazine survey found 43 percent of female runners experience harassment.

Herron, who had been training for the Seattle Rock n Roll Marathon this summer, said Not today, m***** f*****! became her battle cry during the assault.

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She told ABC she feels empowered after fighting off her attacker and still plans to run the marathon this June.

"My face is stitched, my body is bruised, but my spirit is intact," Herron wrote on Instagram.

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BOLINGBROOK Northwestern Medicines plan to invest $46.4 million in DeKalb County by building a health and fitness center received unanimous approval Tuesday from the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board.

The boards 7-0 vote to approve a certificate of need for the project cleared the way for work to begin on the two-story, 111,105-square-foot Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Health and Fitness Center. It is set for construction at 626 E. Bethany Road on the hospital systems campus. The center is expected to be completed by March 31, 2019.

To obtain the permit, Northwestern officials had to justify that the proposed fitness center was needed in the community and that it was financially and economically feasible.

Kevin Poorten, president of Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee and Valley West hospitals, said the center would differ from a traditional gym, offering services from health professionals and educational resources along with fitness facilities.

We, like many other hospitals, are shifting [our] focus to engage consumers before they are acutely ill, utilizing preventative methods that can be helpful in providing care before the patient is admitted to the hospital or the emergency room, Poorten said.

Hospital officials addressed concerns that arose during public hearings about the proposal, including that the center could detract membership from the neighboring Kishwaukee Family YMCA at 2500 W. Bethany Road. Two people, local activist Barry Schrader and former DeKalb Mayor Bessie Chronopoulos, told the board of their concerns of how the project would affect the Y during the public comment period at the start of the boards meeting.

However, Bridget Orth, director of regulatory planning at Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, said options to collaborate with the Y were explored from 2011 to 2013. Options discussed included moving some or all of the Ys fitness services into the proposed center and linking the two facilities with a bridge.

However, the YMCA board of directors determined that keeping the Ys operations on one campus would be in its best interest, she said.

The proposed project would be the only medically affiliated fitness center in the area, Orth said. There may be a small overlap of services with the Y, but like the YMCA, we believe that a healthier community is a stronger community, which is why they did not oppose our project.

A letter from Kishwaukee Family YMCA CEO Mark Spiegelhoff was presented to board members Tuesday as well.

In the letter, Spiegelhoff wrote that the health and fitness center could offer more partnership opportunities between the health system and the YMCA.

The YMCA and Northwestern Medicine KishHealth have a longstanding and solid relationship, Spiegelhoff wrote, and we fully expect that we will continue to partner together to best serve the community after the center is completed.

Michael Kulisz Jr., chief medical officer of Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee and Valley West hospitals, also spoke about the importance of preventative health care, adding that many chronic health conditions can be prevented through weight management.

As a physician, I can attest to the fact that medications and periodic appointments are only a small fraction of the total health picture for patients, Kulisz said. The choices patients make in what they eat, how active they are, and their access to support systems and educational resources for their condition, all impact their health quality of life and overall prognosis.

Wellness programs offered through the center will be provided for free, many including access to the fitness center, according to the proposal.

Additionally, doctor-prescribed fitness programs will be covered by Northwestern Memorial HealthCares charity care policy.

Its very important to distinguish that the programs and services that will be offered through the center are going to be made available to the entire public regardless of their ability to pay, Poorten said.

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