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Optimum fitness offers many advantages: the protection of health and vitality, sports-performance enhancement, prevention of osteoporoses, and the long-term quality of life. It has been estimated by the U.S. Surgeon General that 250,000 premature deaths a year could be prevented by regular exercise (2½ hours of exercise per week)!

The Surgeon General has stated that inactivity over years is comparable with the health risks of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day in terms of effect on overall morbidity and mortality statistics. Properly executed regular exercise has been shown to prevent and alleviate the effects of diabetes, lower back pain, fibromyalgia, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, premenstrual syndrome, AIDS, cancer, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, orthopedic injury, stress, and more.

Fitness and wellness programs incorporated in health promotion at Ford Motor, Steelcase, Tenneco, and many others have saved as much as 50% in annual health care costs and have documented a more productive work force associated with the implementation of these programs.

Astral Fitness and Wellness Center's Bronx Fitness Clubs intention is to help all those interested in promoting the health of themselves, their families, and their employees by any means that we have at our disposal including nutritional and lifestyle counseling, fitness-program prescription, physical rehabilitation, weight-loss programs, support groups, and health education.