Good Life Health Clubs

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A FORMER GOOD LIFE MEMBER WHO FELL PREGNANT……CHECK OUT HER BANK ACCOUNT.
THEY KEPT TAKING OUT MONEY REGARDLESS.

24/04/2011 Opening Balance

-$116.72
27/04/2011 Goodlife Parrama
Glpa1390859
$128.00

-$244.72
27/04/2011 Goodlife Parrama
Glpa1390859
$49.00

-$293.72
27/04/2011 Goodlife Parrama
Glpa1390859
$49.00

-$342.72
27/04/2011 Goodlife Parrama
Glpa1390859
$30.00

-$372.72
28/04/2011 Direct Debit Dishon Fee
$9.00

-$381.72
28/04/2011 Direct Debit Dishonour

$30.00

-$351.72
28/04/2011 Direct Debit Dishon Fee
$9.00

-$360.72
28/04/2011 Direct Debit Dishonour

$49.00

-$311.72
28/04/2011 Direct Debit Dishon Fee
$9.00

-$320.72
28/04/2011 Direct Debit Dishonour

$49.00

-$271.72
28/04/2011 Direct Debit Dishon Fee
$9.00

-$280.72
28/04/2011 Direct Debit Dishonour

$128.00

-$152.72
30/04/2011 Direct Credit/Debit Fees
$20.00

-$172.72
30/04/2011 Debit Interest
$1.78

-$174.50
01/05/2011 Closing Balance

-$174.50

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Obesity & Corporate gyms

Corporate-Obesity

“Obesity is a global problem and not one that can be solved through institutional exercise programs. More than half the Australian, Canadian and of course the American populations are overweight. Do we really think we are going to get them all into the gym every week?

While there is still a consensus that inactivity rather than overeating is responsible for the current obesity epidemic, the terms of the debate are shifting. Exercise as most people understand it is no longer the main focus. It is activity that matters, While the difference may seem a matter of mere semantics, in practice it is the crucial distinction between going somewhere special to get and keep fit. Until you live a life that does it for you until you die.

“We have lost so much physical activity from our everyday lives that an hour or two in the gym a week can’t possibly compensate. I don’t know of a single society in the world where the gym or equivalent has made any difference to a national obesity problem.”

Institutionalized exercise is rather like crash dieting: it is a means to an end that can rarely be sustained. Gym attendance relies on discipline and a concomitant belief that somehow the more you spend financially, the more you will expend calorie wise. Lose the discipline or re-evaluate the cost/ benefit, and your membership lapses.

While exercise is clearly vital, there is an absurdity about the way we try to do it: driving to the gym to get on a treadmill or exercise bike; standing on the escalator on the way to a step aerobics class. And then going home to what they euphemistically call “compensatory behavior” – having a session in front of the telly, or eating a sugary snack.

Clearly, a core of devotees do demonstrate that the gym can be a very effective way to build muscle, lose fat and increase stamina. But they are in the minority. A number of consumer surveys have put the gym drop-out rate at more than 80% in the first eight weeks of signing up. Some figures are more optimistic, showing that 60% of gym members are still paying their subscriptions after a year. But while they may be paying up, are they still turning up?

Payment of the membership fee clearly does not always equate with gym attendance. A recent survey identified gym subscriptions as typical of the direct debit payments that ex-users forget to cancel. Then there are those who keep paying because, well, tomorrow is another day.

Membership does not determine regularity of attendance, either. A survey has found that one in five gym members goes just once a month or less. This equates to 100 calories a week. You could burn up more energy than that doing some gardening every weekend or taking a brisk 20-minute walk every week for a month.

A number of consumer surveys have put the gym drop-out rate at more than 80% in the first eight weeks of signing up.

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Who Profits from Sickness and Disease?

AMA

Unfortunately, every industry fights for survival in our economy, even if it only offers products or services based on sickness and disease. And for many of these industries, the real financial windfall only occurs when the population is kept in a state of ongoing chronic disease.

A healthy population means disaster for these industries.

Here are some of the big ones:

The Mainstream Media – The MSM, meanwhile, depends on the advertising dollars of drug companies, soda companies and junk food companies to keep its own financial lifeline intact. If junk food and pharmaceutical advertising were both banned, the media would suffer enormous losses in ad revenues. It’s all those nutritionally worthless, disease-promoting products that keep the MSM in business! Remember, the MSM is in the business of “junk food news,” meaning they produce a “diet” of junk news for human consumption.

The Health Insurance Industry – This industry realizes huge financial gains from sickness and disease. The more people are sick, the higher the insurance premiums (and the more profit is mathematically built in). Furthermore, the more people get sick, the more they feel they need to buy insurance, so more disease inevitably leads to higher revenues across the health insurance industry.

Junk Food Retailers – This includes your local grocery store, by the way, which is stacked to the hilt with processed, disease-causing junk foods. It’s the same story with Costco or Sam’s Clubs. Wal-Mart and even local pharmacies are also chock full of disease-promoting junk foods that nutritionists know are linked to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, kidney stones, depression and many other problems. But selling junk food is big business and grocery stores aren’t about to restrict the products they sell just because they happen to promote disease. Pharmacies still sell cigarettes!

The Pharmaceutical Industry – Big Pharma would lose a fortune if the population got healthy with nutrition. It sells billions of dollars worth of drugs every year and depends on disease to sell them. All the pharmacies that retail those drugs would also go out of business: CVS, Walgreen, Wal-Mart, Safeway, etc.

The Medical Industry – All those hospitals, doctors’ offices and emergency rooms also depend on a steady stream of diseased, malnourished Americans to guarantee their job security and incomes. A drop in disease would mean the rapid downsizing of hospitals and clinics.

The Food & Agriculture Giants – The Big Food and Big Ag companies bet their profits on the continued purchasing of processed, nutritionally-depleted food and beverage products that directly contribute to degenerative disease. High-Fructose Corn Syrup, for example, is a very profitable ingredient to use in processed foods. Never mind the fact that it promotes diabetes and obesity… it’s cheaper than sugar!

Disease Non-Profits – Never forget how much money is collected by the disease non-profit groups like the American Cancer Society. These “rich” non-profits depend entirely on the continuation of their sponsored disease in order to stay in power. In a world without cancer (to reference G. Edward Griffin’s book title), there’s no need for the ACS. Nor for the Susan Komen cancer group with all its ridiculous pink ribbons that pretend we can all cure cancer by going shopping. For every significant disease affecting the western world today, there’s an associated disease group depending on that disease for its own survival.

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