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Eventually, either my husband or myself is going to have to become a Certified Personal Trainer in order for us to realize our goal of owning a Fitness Consulting Business. We haven’t researched too much into what is involved yet so this is definitely an area that I need to educate myself about.

International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA) has provided certification and continuing education for almost 100,000 health and fitness professionals for the past twenty years. Earning ISSA Personal Training Certifications is possible through a home/online study course. This sounds perfect for our needs.

Here’s the bottom line: Fitness Training and Fitness Education are hot now and only going to get hotter. Anything that is connected to “natural healing” is going to be extremely popular in the upcoming years. Becoming a Certified Personal Trainer is going to be a great way to get involved in this hot new mindset.

ISSA is actively pursuing the accreditation of six of their personal trainer certification programs. This is a important indication of a quality certifying organization. They offer several different certification programs – one of which is sure to fit your needs.

The tuition and fees are very reasonable, in case you were wondering. I admit I was! For less than $600 you can be certified in your brand new career. There are no additional hidden fees either. No book fees, no application fees, and no exam re-test fees! I even saw something about tuition assistance for US applicants who have need. That is very interesting!

So…if you’re wondering whether this is something that would be a good fit for you, here is what you should do. Visit ISSA’s site and take their quick “Personal Trainer Evaluation” to see if you would be good at this. Then if it’s a fit, go ahead and request their Free Personal Training Brochure. That will give you all of the information you need to get started.

Obesity increases the risk of a large number of cancers…by as much as 50 percent in some cases. It has now been formally concluded that excess body fat causes some cancers.

Researchers conducted an analysis of 144 prior studies that included 282,000 people. They compared the cancer rates of those whose body mass index (BMI) increased from normal to overweight or from overweight to obese with those whose BMI remained normal or overweight.

BMI is a measurement of weight relative to height.

An increase in body mass increased the risk of rare blood cancers in both women and men (including adult leukemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma). In men, it increased the risk of colon and kidney cancers by (24 %) and the risk of thyroid cancer (33 %).

Women who became overweight suffered a 34 percent higher incidence of kidney cancer and a 59 percent higher incidence of gall-bladder cancer.