Virgin Active and Vitality. Join for only R850 once off!

Get into shape with Virgin Active this 2009 by joining for only R850 once off with Discovery Vitality! You can be a Vitality member by simply taking a Discovery Life Policy! For more go to http://www.gymforless.co.za/

Convert your Virgin Active contract into a Discovery Life insurance policy and get huge benefits.

If you buy life insurance with Discovery Life you can join Virgin Active for a R850 once off activation fee.

Step 1: Buy a life insurance policy with Discovery Life for more then R 200 per month.

Step 2: Attach the Vitality Benefit at an additional R105 per month.

Step 3: Discovery Life and Vitality members can join Virgin Active for a R850 once off activation fee.

This new contract will REPLACE your old Virgin Active contract at NO EXTRA COST to you!

For a reduced monthly premium you are now are entitled to:

• Life insurance with one of South Africa’s leading life insurers.
• Lifetime membership to Virgin Active (as long as you work out 24 times in any 12- month rolling period)
• Huge savings on food, air time, flights, movies, hotels and many other benefits with Vitality’s other partners

For more info go to http://www.gymforless.co.za/Virgin_Active_Contract.html

DiscoveryCard benefits and fees for 2009

Your DiscoveryCard is a Visa credit card that gives you cash back when you shop, gives you great savings on dream holidays and allows you to earn Discovery Miles. It is also the only credit card that rewards you for getting healthier, and the healthier you get, the greater your rewards!

Here is a reminder of the unique benefits of your DiscoveryCard

• You get up to 20% cash back on everything you buy at our partner stores.

• You can save between 15% and 22% off the advertised price at World Leisure Holidays, Royal Caribbean International and Contiki Holidays.

• You can increase your savings by activating the Discovery Miles benefit – you will earn one Discovery Mile for every R10 you spend on your DiscoveryCard. Platinum DiscoveryCard holders can activate the Fast Miles option and earn one Discovery Mile for every R5 spent.

• You can get even more financial and protection benefits through the DiscoveryCard Protector and the DiscoveryCard Integrator.

The savings are based on your Vitality status – a measure of how much you interact with Vitality to improve your health.

Free value-added services

Because Discvoery is committed to providing convenient solutions to its cardholders, it offers you these free value added services:

• Electronic Statement Option.

• SMS and/or email notification of transactions.

• Internet banking.

For more information about the DiscoveryCard benefits and fee changes for 2009, please visit: http://www.discovery.co.za/

NOW YOU CAN GET VITALITY WITHOUT BEING A DISCOVERY HEALTH MEMBER!

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Pick n Pay & Vitality - Vitality members can get up to 25% discount at Pick n Pay

You don't have to be on Discovery Health to get the savings from Vitality! Look Here how to get Vitality through Discovery Life!

Get up to 25% discount at Pick N Pay with Vitality!

Pictured right : Adrian Gore (Discovery) and Nick Badminton(Pick and Pay)

18 September 2008

Discovery : info@fanews.co.za

Consumers can buy products that meet nutritional criteria based on internationally-accepted and clinically sound dietary advice

Discovery Vitality members can save up to 25% on healthy foods when they shop at Pick n Pay from 2009.

Foods such as fresh fruit and vegetables, fish, foods low in ‘bad’ fat or with the ‘right’ fat content levels, foods low in salt and high in unrefined carbohydrates (low GI, high fibre foods) will be cheaper for Vitality members.

Discovery Vitality today announced its bold HealthyFood™ initiative, which aims to remove price as a barrier to healthy eating, educate consumers about healthy nutrition and create powerful incentives to encourage them to embrace healthier diets.

It comes amid a global epidemic of lifestyle diseases and burgeoning rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and certain types of cancer among South Africans.

According to the World Health Organisation, over 60% of deaths worldwide can be attributed to these chronic lifestyle conditions. In South Africa, 20% of males and 26% of females are overweight, while 9% of males and 30% of females are obese. High blood pressure, stroke and diabetes are among the top 10 causes of death in our country.

Mounting scientific evidence points to a diet high in energy dense foods, saturated fats and low levels of unrefined carbohydrates, coupled with our increasingly sedentary lifestyles, as one of the leading causes of the problem.

Adrian Gore (pictured), Discovery’s CEO says the situation can and must be addressed – the solution is for South Africans to change their eating and exercise patterns.

“We want to make healthy eating more accessible and affordable for our clients. So we approached Pick n Pay, as South Africa’s leading retailer, to partner with us in making this a reality.”

Discovery Vitality is a science-based wellness programme designed to create behavioural change through a combination of knowledge, tools, preventive screening and incentives. More than 1.3 million members in South Africa currently enjoy its benefits. Vitality has been successful in incentivising healthy behaviour among its members and reducing healthcare costs, as shown in recent studies by researchers from Wits University, the University of Cape Town and Harvard Medical School.

Gore said: “With all the hype around healthy eating, label reading and conflicting information, we believe consumers are often left confused and unable to make an informed choice when buying food products in a supermarket. With this initiative, we aim to simplify the process and educate consumers.”

Nick Badminton, CEO of Pick n Pay, agreed: “Pick n Pay has a proud history of delivering low prices to South African consumers. The Vitality HealthyFood benefit not only gives us the opportunity to partner Discovery in this unprecedented offer on healthy foods but enables us to jointly improve the health of all South Africans.”

“By developing the technology backbone required to deliver a benefit of this nature and supporting the identification of Vitality’s healthy foods, we hope to contribute to consumer awareness and better health.”

The partnership, says Gore, will help consumers make well-informed, credible, easy nutritional choices. The Discovery Vitality Nutrition Panel, chaired by Tim Noakes – Discovery Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Cape Town – has overseen the compilation of an extensive ‘shopping list’ of everyday healthy foods available at Pick n Pay. These foods, selected in line with World Health Organisation healthy nutrition guidelines, will all carry the Discovery Vitality HealthyFood™ mark in store – making it easy for consumers to identify healthy options in store.

The panel includes leading nutrition consultants Anne Till and Jane Badham, along with respected academics Professor Vicky Lambert (Sports Science Institute of South Africa), Dr Nelia Steyn (Medical Research Council), Professor Christine Venter (University of the North West) and Gerda Gericke (University of Pretoria), and Rene Smallberger of the Association of Dieticians in South Africa and Professor Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina.

ÔDiscovery Vitality members will save up to 25% on all HealthyFood purchased at Pick n Pay from February next year.

Vitality members will receive a HealthyFood™ card, which they will present at the check-out to qualify for the savings. They will receive savings of 15% on the price of the HealthyFoods – increased to 25% if they have “activated” the full HealthyFood™ benefit by completing an online Vitality Health Review, which is aimed at educating Vitality members on their key health risks.

Members will also earn 10 Vitality points for every HealthyFood™ product they purchase, up to a maximum of 500 points per month. DiscoveryCard holders have the added benefit of up to 10% cash back (on all purchases made at Pick n Pay) at the end of the month equating to even greater savings.

Vitality and Pick n Pay will also work together to roll out healthy food shopping tours, healthy food shopping lists, cooking demonstrations and other initiatives to help educate South African consumers with regards to nutrition.

“While healthy eating should be its own reward, resulting as it does in a healthier body and mind, the extent of the worldwide obesity problem indicates that the ‘Supersize generation’ needs added encouragement.”

“With this initiative we hope to make healthy eating accessible, simple and rewarding for Vitality members and South African consumers in general, with a lasting, positive impact on their health,” Gore said.

This article was origionally in http://www.fanews.co.za/

NOW YOU CAN GET VITALITY WITHOUT BEING A DISCOVERY HEALTH MEMBER! GO TO http://www.gymforless.co.za/ FOR MORE INFORMATION

Virgin Active Gyms - Virgin Active in South Africa

Virgin Active is the largest gym chain in South Africa. It has 80 clubs nationwide, including those being renovated, and plans of building 40 new clubs.

The current clubs will undergo major upgrades by 2010. iPod-compatible equipment and bicycles, step machines and treadmills with television screens and special equipment for ladies are amongst the additions.

Virgin Active is simply about health and wellness and believe that, with the right kind of exercise and encouragement, you can reach your fitness goals.

Membership (2008)

A 1 year contract contract costs R309 per month while a 2 year contract costs R270 per month. An off-peak contract for the hours between 08h00 and 16h00 costs R225 per month. All contracts have a mandatory joining fee of R400 but for January it is R100.

There is a guest fee of R85 per day; however, if you are a member, the guest fee is reduced to R60. Children of 18 and younger are entitled to a free “Junior Membership” provided their parents are valid members.

Operating times

Monday-Thursday 05h00-21h00

Friday: 05h00-20h00

Saturday: 07h00-19h00

Sunday: 07h00-20h00

Public holidays (closed on Christmas, Good Friday): 07h00-20h00

Times vary from club to club (some open at 05h30; some close at 21h00) but all opening and close times remain relatively similar.

This article appeared in http://www.health24.com/fitness/In_the_gym/16-526-3898,41444.asp

FOR MORE INFORMATION HOW YOU CAN JOIN VIRGIN ACTIVE FOR ONLY R850 AND STILL GET A FORTUNE OF LIFE INSURANCE GO TO http://www.gymforless.co.za/

Virgin Active - Join Virgin Active for R850 once off!

Join Virgin Active for only R850 once off - no more debit orders!

How do you qualify to join Virgin Active or Planet Fitness at this rate?

• Step 1: Buy a life insurance policy with Discovery Life for more then R 200 per month.
• Step 2: Attach the Vitality Benefit at an additional R105 per month.
• Step 3: Discovery Life and Vitality members can join either Virgin Active or Planet Fitness for a R850 activation fee.

Result: Instead of paying between R250-R390 pm to go your gym, you now pay R305! PLUS you have a fortune of life insurance. That’s value for money!

For more on this great deal go to http://www.gymforless.co.za/

Virgin Active - great advert

Join Virgin Active through Discovery Life and Vitality for only R850 once off! Now Discovery Life members can attach Vitality to their policies.

For more information about how you can get Discovery Life and Vitality (gym included) for LESS then the price of a monthly gym contract please go to http://www.gymforless.co.za/

Vitality - what is the Vitality benefit?

Vitality is the wellness programme offered by Discovery. All members of Discovery Health and Discovery Life can join Vitality.

Vitality members start at Blue status and improve their status as they improve their health.

The different levels are blue, bronze, silver and gold.

It is very easy to move up the levels.

• Online assessments and questionnaires on the Discovery Website
• Preventative screening and tests e.g. Blood pressure and mammograms
• Going to dieticians and biokinetists
• Going to gym – either Virgin Active or Planet Fitness
• Being a non smoker
• Playing golf
• Participating in registered marathons, cycle events and other SA-Active events.

How many points does an individual need to move up a Vitality status?
Blue - Zero points
Bronze - 15 000 points
Silver- 35 000 points
Gold- 45 000 points

For a full list of Vitality benefits log on to http://www.discoveryworld.co.za/

For more information on getting Vitality through Discovery Life please go to http://www.gymforless.co.za/

What is Gymforless.co.za?

Learn how you can join Virgin Active or Planet Fitness and get other Vitality benefits through Discovery Life. Gymforless.co.za is website that explains how.

South Africans can get the benefits of the Vitality benefit without being Discovery Health members. By simply taking a Discovery Life insurance policy a person can get Vitality without joining the Discovery medical aid or hospital plan.

Vitality is the most comprehensive wellness programme in South Africa, where participants are rewarded for being healthy. Vitality is only available to Discovery Life and Discovery health members.

Some of these discounts include:

• Join Virgin Active or Planet Fitness for only R850 once off
• Get up to 25% off certain foods at Pick n Pay
• Get up to 20% off a British Airways flights
• Get up to 30% off a Kulula flight
• Get up to 20% of Imperial Car hire
• Get up to 45% discount off at Southern Sun
• Pay only R16 per movie at Ster Kinekor
• Cash back on the Discovery credit card when you shop at Nandos, @ Home, Pick n Pay and others

There are many more benefits for being a Discvoery Vitality member. This blog will kepp you up to date with all of them.
For more information about how you can get this policy please go to http://www.gymforless.co.za/