A Message from Management:

We live in the best of all times. Technology, genetic engineering and medical science have changed our lives and with it our priorities. Truly extraordinary. Life expectancies have risen from 50 years in the 1900’s to almost 80 years in the twenty first century and because of the continued advancement in medicine and because of what we know about diet and its impact on health many experts predict that life expectancy could reach 100 years by mid century. Can you believe it?

You control your health or lack thereof, not your doctor, medical providers, insurance companies, employer, or anyone else. We are all faced with “choices” when it comes to health, to have or not have, that is the question. It is axiomatic that exercise and diet play a direct and significant role in the qualitative longevity of your existence. There is not a single part or system of your body that does not benefit from exercise and healthy eating. Do we want to spend our years physically inactive and dependent on others or would we rather live an independent physically active life? Today in our great country, the USA, more than half the male population exercises on a regular basis and 47% of women likewise make exercise part of their regular living. Sooner or later the other half will get it too! There is an irresistible powerful force moving this nation in the direction of healthier eating and daily exercise. It’s the in thing and will be the in thing for well educated, in the know, aspiring professionals irrespective of age group for all times. It’s a lifestyle. It’s good and its real!  

As keen observers of human behavior we have always been amazed by the priorities and angles of vision our society would attempt to impose upon us through there many machinations of manipulation. We are willing to spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on pretend items that delude us into temporarily feeling good about ourselves, the fashion industry and other industries depend on you buying in into there new concept of fashionable every three months or every new year! The reality is much different. There is really only one way to really feel good about you in a permanent sense and that’s by loving what you see in the mirror! Exercise and healthy eating guarantees’ you the best probability of accomplishing this! Exercise and healthy eating is the real “fountain of youth.”

Here are over 101 demonstrable psychological and physical benefits to exercise;

1. Helps you to more effectively manage stress
2. Helps you to lose weight - especially fat
3. Improves the functioning of your immune system
4. Reduce medical and healthcare expenses
5. Reduces your risk of getting heart disease
6. Increases your level of muscle strength
7. Improves athletic performance
8. Can help relieve the pain of tension headache - perhaps the most common type of headache
9. Allows you to consume greater quantities of food and still maintain caloric balance
10. Helps you sleep easer and better
11. Enhance sexual desire, performance and satisfaction
12. Reduce the risk of developing hypertension (high blood tension)
13. Increase the density and breaking strength of bones
14. Improves your physical appearance
15. Increases circulating levels of HDL (good) cholesterol
16. Assists in efforts to stop smoking
17. Helps you to relax
18. Can help improve short-term memory in older individuals
19. Helps maintain weight loss - unlike dieting
20. Helps relieve many of the common discomforts of pregnancy (backache, heartburn, constipation, etc.)
21. Reduces your anxiety level
22. Helps control blood pressure in people with hypertension
23. Protects against "creeping obesity" (the slow, but steady gain that occurs as you age)
24. Reduces vulnerability to various cardiac dysrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms)
25. Improves the likelihood of survival from a myocardial infarction (heart attack)
26. Helps to overcome jet lag
27. Slows the rate of joint degeneration in people with osteoarthritis
28. Lowers your resting heart rate
29. Helps to boost creativity
30. Reduces circulating levels of triglycerides
31. Helps to resist upper respiratory tract infections
32. Increases your anaerobic threshold, allowing you to work or exercise at a higher level, before a significant amount of lactic acid builds up
33. Helps to preserve lean body tissue
34. Improves your ability to recover from physical exertion
35. Helps speed recovery from chemotherapy treatments
36. Increases ability to supply blood to the skin for cooling
37. Increases the thickness of the cartilage of your joints
38. Gives you more energy to meet the demands of daily life, and provides you with the reserves to meet the demands of unexpected emergencies
39. Increases your level of muscle endurance
40. Helps prevent intestinal ulcers
41. Increases the density and breaking strength of ligaments and tendons
42. Improves posture
43. Increases your maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max-perhaps the best measure of your physical working capacity)
44. Helps you to maintain your resting metabolic rate
45. Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer
46. Increases your tissues' responsiveness to the actions of insulin (i.e. , improves tissue sensitivity to insulin), which helps to better control blood sugar, particularly if you are Type-2 diabetic
47. Helps you to relieve constipation
48. Expands blood plasma volume
49. Reduces the risk of developing prostate cancer
50. Helps to combat substance abuse
51. Helps to alleviate depression.
52. Increases your ability to adapt to cold environments.
53. Helps to alleviate certain menstrual symptoms.
54. Reduces the rate and severity of medical complications associated with hypertension.
55. Help to alleviate certain menstrual symptoms.
56. Lowers your heart rate response to submaximal physical exertion.
57. Helps to alleviate low-back pain.
58. Helps to reduce the amount of insulin required to control blood sugar levels in type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetics.
59. Improves mental alertness.
60. Improves respiratory muscle strength and muscle endurance-particularly important for asthmatics.
61. Reduces your risk of having stroke.
62. Helps you burn excess calories.
63. Increases your cardiac reserve.
64. Improves coronary (heart) circulation.
65. Offsets some of the negative side effects of certain antihypertensive drugs.
66. Increases your stroke volume (the amount of blood the heart pumps with each beet).
67. Improves your self-esteem.
68. Reduces your susceptibility for coronary thrombosis (a clot in an artery that supplies the heart with blood).
69. Reduces your risk of developing type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes.
70. Reduces your risk of developing breast cancer.
71. Improves mental cognition (a short-term effect only).
72. Maintains or improves joint flexibility.
73. Improves your glucose tolerance.
74. Reduces workdays missed due to illness.
75. Reduces the viscosity of your blood.
76. Enhances your muscles’ ability to extract oxygen from your blood.
77. Increases your productivity at work.
78. Reduces your likelihood of developing low-back problems.
79. Improves your balance and coordination.
80. Improves your body’s ability to use fat for energy during physical activity.
81. Provides protection against injury.
82. Decreases (by 20 to 30 percent) the need for antihypertensive medication, if you are3 hypertensive.
83. Improves your decision-making abilities.
84. Helps reduce and prevent the immediate symptoms of menopause (hot flashes, sleep disturbances, irritability) and decrease the long-term risks of cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and obesity.
85. Helps to relieve and prevent “migraine headache attacks”
86. Reduces the risk of endometriosis (a common cause of infertility).
87. Helps to retard bone loss as you age, thereby reducing your risk of developing osteoporosis.
88. Helps decrease your appetite (a short-term effect only).
89. Improves pain tolerance and mood if you suffer from osteoarthritis.
90. Helps prevent and relieve the stresses that cause carpal tunnel syndrome.
91. Makes your heart a more efficient pump.
92. Helps to decrease left ventricular hypertrophy (a thickening of the walls of the left ventricle) in people with hypertension.
93. May be protective against the development of Alzheimer's disease.
94. Improves your mood.
95. Helps to increase your overall health awareness.
96. Reduces the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.
97. Helps you to maintain an independent lifestyle.
98. Reduces the level of abdominal obesity- a significant health-risk factor.
99. Increases the diffusion capacity of the lungs, enhancing the exchange of oxygen from your lungs to your blood.
100. Improves heat tolerance.
101. IMPROVES YOUR OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE!!!!

For those of us that live busy lives exercise should be our ambrosia. Nothing reduces the stress of 21st century living than a good workout, sitting in the steam, sauna or whirlpool with a friend. There is no better feeling than the one you get after you have finished your workout.

Set the right example, start with and for yourself and then for those that you care about. Join 7 Flags. Encourage your friends and family members to join 7Flags with you. Make 7Flags your place to interact with friends and family. The price of admission is miniscule compared to the cumulative benefits received. What a bargain!