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Women Fitness (WF) is your online guide to healthy living and optimal fitness. You'll learn practical and enjoyable ways of healthy eating and exercising. Our program cuts through the confusion and teaches you exactly how to achieve the results you want. By eliminating the guesswork, we help you avoid the common mistakes that can waste your time and effort. With WF, you'll discover that you can truly enjoy healthy eating and physical activity for the rest of your life!
Our members receive personal fitness consulting, customized exercise programs, healthy recipes and meal plans, books and pictures and much more. We've made having your own fitness instructor, dietician, and personal motivator affordable for almost everyone and have personally helped thousands of women of all ages, fitness levels, body types, and backgrounds achieve their fitness goals!

Women Fitness was established on 1st July, 2000, by Ms.Namita Nayyar, who is a certified Aerobics & Fitness Instructor certified from International Fitness Association. She has now recruited some of the very best exercises, medical and nutritional experts in the world namely dietician, gynecologist and orthopedic surgeons. Women Fitness Team now has Ms Venus Ramos, who is a staff physician at a major California rehabilitation hospital. NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and an AFAA Aerobics Instructor, her experience includes work as a commercial personal trainer, senior citizen fitness educator, and volunteer trainer for Special Olympics track athletes. Her qualifications and certifications are as follows:
MD, University of Miami School of Medicine, 1998. BS, Biology, University of Miami, 1994. NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist. AFAA Certified Aerobic Instructor. Ms Gwen D Swan, who is an AFAA-certified personal trainer and Kickboxing Instructor, and a Universal-certified resistance/weight trainer.

Ms Marie Saunders, who is a Provincial artistic gymnast since 1976, thereafter coached artistic gymnastics at provincial level until 1980. She won the Western Province Ladies Bodybuilding Overall Champion in 1994, South African Ladies Bodybuilding Overall Champion in 1994 and Miss Universe Title in Ladies Middleweight Bodybuilding in 1994 which was held in Düsseldorf, Germany. Dr. (Ms) Kamlesh Tandon, who is a Senior Gynecologist and Obstetrician running her own Nursing Home. She earned her MBBS, DGO & MS . Dr. Anil Kumar Varshney, who is M.S.(Ortho), F.R.C.S,F.I.C.S. A senior orthopedic surgeon has offered his services in many countries. Dr. Amit Tandon, MBBS, MS,MRCOG, Obstetrician & Gynecologist, who has recently conducted a study on the role of hystroscopic directed biopsies in Gynecological pathologies and has served in the S.N. Medical College. Presently he is working as a private consultant.

The above group of professionals makes a formidable team of experts rendering their services to Women Fitness members at large.

Women Fitness now has three offices namely at St. Lious, US, Cape Town, South Africa and Agra, India.

Women Fitness is today rated Number One in Women Fitness category by every search engine on the web. It is worth mentioning that Women Fitness is presently rated by Yahoo! in Women health category and by Google in weight loss program category as the most popular site. Healthology the multimedia content provider of Yahoo! has collaborated with this site to provide Live Videos and lectures on Women health issues by leading doctors, athletes & celebrities. Today this site has won a dozen international awards
in a span of just two years time. The site can be translated into 32 languages with a click of a button. It has 10000 members in 200 countries. www.womenfitness.net is an online guide for women to achieve healthy weight and optimum fitness. Loaded with daily tips, motivation, articles, healthy recipes, exercise demonstration and free tools to help women achieve healthy weight and optimum fitness . We have a team of in-house doctors, health and fitness experts offering women specialized guidance on achieving healthy weight and optimum fitness.
Namita Nayyar
C.E.O.
Women Fitness

THE INDUSTRY

According to a recent study just completed by Tampa-based Marketdata Enterprises, the only market researcher to track the weight loss products/services market on an ongoing basis since 1989, body-conscious Americans will spend nearly $40 billion this year to lose weight. They also predict that the weight loss industry in the U.S. will grow 5.6 percent annually to $48.8 billion in 2006. Source: October 2002 report from Marketdata Enterprises.

Diet soft drinks dominate in terms of sales, with an expected $14.86 billion this year (up from $14.4 billion in 2001). Health clubs rank second, with $13.52 million in 2002 sales, up $1 billion from last year. Diet books, cassettes and exercise videos trail commercial weight loss centers, with the most rapid growth being in do-it-yourself, over-the-counter diet aids. Source: October 2002 report from Marketdata Enterprises.

In 2002, the commercial weight loss centers category represented 1.2 billion of the $39 billion industry pie. Source: October 2002 report from Marketdata Enterprises.

OBESITY

Obesity claims more than 300,000 lives each year, and is linked to at least five of the 10 leading causes of death. It costs society an estimated $100 billion annually, and affects those in all age groups, ethnicities, and income/education levels. Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/usphs/pdfs/army.pdf

An estimated 64% of Americans are considered overweight or obese, up from 56% in the early 1990s. Source: National Center for Health Statistics.

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, almost one-third (31%) of U.S. adults are obese. In 1994, the rate was 23%; in 1980, it was 15%. Source: National Center for Health Statistics.

More women (33%) are obese than men (28%). The study also reported that 50% of black women are obese, compared with 40% of Mexican-American women and 30% of white women. Among men, there wasn’t a significant difference in obesity based on race or ethnicity. Source: National Center for Health Statistics.

In their June 2000 report, the Partnership for a Healthy Workforce estimated that the cost of medical treatment for obesity-related conditions exceeded $50 billion per year. Source: The Partnership for a Healthy Workforce.

More than 60% of adults do not engage in the recommended amount of physical activity; in fact, approximately 25% are not active at all. Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Among U.S. adults, diagnosed diabetes increased 49% from 1990 to 2000. Similar increases are expected in the next decade and beyond. Now the sixth leading cause of death, the direct and indirect costs of diabetes are nearly $100 billion a year. The average health care cost for a person with diabetes in 1997 was $10,071, compared with $2,699 for a person without diabetes. Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

More than three-quarters of Americans raid the fridge or the pantry in the middle of the night, with ice cream being the “indulgence of choice” of 23 percent of respondents. Seventeen percent chose crunchy foods (chips, popcorn and pretzels.) Source: PARADE/Harris Poll in August 2002

Among children and teens ages 6-19, 15 percent (almost 9 million) are overweight according to 1999-2000 data, or triple what the proportion was in 1980. More than 10% of children between two and five years old are overweight – up from 7% in 1994. Source: National Center for Health Statistics.

The risk of childhood obesity increases 60% with each additional soft drink consumed per day. Source: Harvard School of Public Health.