Fish Oil and Your Gut

Fish oil-diet benefits may be mediated by gut microbes
August 27, 2015, Cell Press

Diets rich in fish oil versus diets rich in lard (e.g., bacon) produce very different bacteria in the guts of mice, reports a new study. The researchers transferred these microbes into other mice to see how they affected health. The results suggest that gut bacteria share some of the responsibility for the beneficial effects of fish oil and the harmful effects of lard.

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App Upgrade!!

A lot of people have had questions regarding our new app. We HIGHLY suggest that you download the app on your smart phone. Even if you are not interested in using anything on the app it will still allow you to get alerts and important notifications. 

This enables you to receive push alerts in case of emergency closings or opening delays through the winter. When you download the app it will ask you a few questions. 

First is to allow push alerts. We won't bombard you with alerts every day this is only for important things that we need to reach out to everyone. 

You will also be ask to use your location services. By allowing this feature you will be able to check yourself in when you get within 50 feet of Pittsburgh North Fitness - you can even check in from the donut shop next door, not that any of you would be over there before your workout.:) This is replacing the scanner so that you do not have carrier around those clunky key tags and pull up the bar code on your phone.

And finally, you will be ask if you want your booked session to be added into your calendar on your phone and if you would like to set a reminder. 

The new app has the Mindbody Online Express Scheduler built right in an is much more user friendly.  Once you go in and log in it will keep you logged in so you do not have to log in every time. You will also be able to access your Perkville points from the app and you will be able to see your club bucks balance.*

* We are having trouble with accessing perkville from the app as well as getting ourselves checked in. This is a glitch we are working on and trying to get resolved soon. Which means we are still checking you into class and you have not lost any perkville points it just means that you can not view those through the app just yet. 

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We hope you have a Happy Labor Day and remember we will be CLOSED Monday, September 7th in observance of the holiday.

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