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With a goal of fighting obesity while making exercise fun, Nexgym, a Southlake-Texas based kid’s fitness franchise, has launched into two additional markets: Lisbon, Portugal and San Antonio, Texas. The first children’s fitness facility to merge state-of-the-art fitness technology with video-games, Nexgym first started franchising in December 2006 with their launch of the second Nexgym facility in Plano Texas. Now, with expansion internationally, Nexgym has opened a Master Franchise program for international franchisors interested in leveraging the US-based concept.
What the media hailed as the latest trend in fitness, ‘Exergaming’, allows children to work out on equipment which has been integrated with Video Games. “
1 Comment »Our world is based upon social stigmas that we must all look thin. This idea of thin begins to hit our children as early as 10 or 11 years of age. Young girls are the ones hit hardest by this social disease and when simple dieting turns into an obsession wit weight, that is when dieting can turn fatal.
Control. Control is at the heart of the reason why many girls choose to try an eating disorder to lose weight. The eating disorders that are most common are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia is the starving of the human body in order to lose weight and bulimia is most commonly a disorder involving eating large amounts of food and then throwing that food back up.
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