Taste of ProFIT Fundraiser
Join us for a taste of ProFIT! A 90 minutes of music thumping, heart pumping, sweat dripping FUN! Workout for a cause!
30 minutes of Zumba!
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30 minutes of Cardio Kickboxing!
30 minutes of Yoga!
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Where else can you get Zumba, Kickboxing, and Yoga in one class while you are helping to raise money for a cure/research for Lupus and/or Crohn's & Colitis.
$10 min. donation goes to the charity of your choice
Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body (skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body). Chronic means that the signs and symptoms tend to last longer than six weeks and often for many years. In lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system, which is the part of the body that fights off viruses, bacteria, and germs ("foreign invaders," like the flu). Normally our immune system produces proteins called antibodies that protect the body from these invaders. Autoimmune means your immune system cannot tell the difference between these foreign invaders and your body’s healthy tissues ("auto" means "self") and creates autoantibodies that attack and destroy healthy tissue. These autoantibodies cause inflammation, pain, and damage in various parts of the body.
Crohn's disease is caused by interactions between environmental, immunological and bacterial factors in genetically susceptible individuals. This results in a chronic inflammatory disorder, in which the body's immune system attacks the gastrointestinal tract possibly directed at microbial antigens.
Crohn's disease has traditionally been described as an autoimmune disease, but recent investigators have described it as a disease of immune deficiency.
