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"We're excited about this program because it is the on- ly one in the area where peo- ple who are basically healthy will be supervised while they exercise," says Melvyn Ruben- fire, M.D., chairman of the department of medicine at Sinai. The Wellness Program's $99 initiation fee includes a car- diac fitness profile. The profile includes numerous car- diovascular fitness tests: a submaximal stress test, a body fat evaluation, a cholesterol test and a strength test. (The cardiac profile can be purchased separately.) The participant receives an individualized exercise prescription, a record book to keep test results, educational materials, and the opportuni- ty to participate in the pro- gram's activities supervised by the staff from Sinai's Center for Cardiovascular Health. The Wellness Program's $36 monthly membership fee (less for JCC members) entitles participants to use the pool and track at the JCC as well as equipment reserved ex- clusively for the program. Some of the new equipment includes Air-Dyne bikes, row- ing machines and a stairmaster. Many of the Wellness Pro- gram's activities are similar to those available at area health clubs. Some of the supervised activities include aerobics and other forms of exercise. "Eventually we'll have supervised tennis and other individual sports, supervised canoe trips and other outings," says Rubenfire. Lectures and educational services will be offered in- cluding diet and nutrition counseling smoking cessation classes and heart-healthy cooking demonstrations. Rubenfire explains that heart disease is the number one killer in the United States but that most people can reduce their risk of developing heart disease by exercising, following a better diet and stopping smoking. According to Tim Kostelnik, director of the cardiovascular fitness program, the program will be offered from 8 a.m.- 9 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and evenings from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. on Monday, Thursday and Friday. "If we have more requests for dif- ferent hours, we will accom- modate it," says Kostelnik. Sinai Hospital and the JCC have collaborated before to reduce heart disease in their cardiovascular rehabilitation program which includes peo- ple recovering from heart surgery or a heart attack. The program, based • on a 1975 Sinai study which showed that exercise improves car- diovascular fitness, is still in existence. "I find it very fulfilling that the seeds for cardiac wellness that we planted in 1975, with the study we did at the JCC, are coming to fruition now with the opening of the Wellness Program," says Rubenfire. "And I'm really proud that Sinai and the JCC are working together to pro- mote the health of the com- munity." ❑ For membership information about the Wellness Program or for information about the cardiac fitness profile, call the physical education department at the JCC at 661-1000. Healthy Kids? Are today's American children in adequate physical shape? Most parents would answer yes, but according to Dr. Charles Kuntzleman, Na- tional Director of the Feelin' Good Program, a children's cardiovascular-fitness pro- gram and author of Healthy Kids for Life (Simon and Schuster, $16.95) "chances are they'd be wrong?' Con- sider the alarming statistics: • Between 1984 and 1988 a series of studies on millions of American children ages 5 to 17 have shown that 64 per- cent fail to meet minimum fitness criteria. • Only 36 percent of American school children have physical education every day, with the average gym class devoting as little as one minute to vigorous aerobic exercise. • More than 20 percent of the average American child's food calories come from sugar. • Roughly 42 percent of to- day's kids have cholesterol levels that are too high. • 67 percent have three or more risk factors for heart disease..