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Vitality through IHS offers a host of wellness benefits

Whether you’re covered by Discovery Life, Discovery Health or both, The Vitality Wellness Network helps improve your wellness through an ingenious combination of incentives. As you improve your Vitality status through health checks and good living you gain access to ever more benefits as the risks to your health diminish.

Your Vitality status goes up the more you learn about your health and take steps to improve it through easy, straightforward tasks. You’ll get all the tools you need to accomplish these tasks and maximise your quality of life with different checks, assessments and benefits that grow your status and entitle you to benefits like:

Huge savings on Gym memberships

  • Often with affordable once-off fees. Earn Vitality points every time you attend Virgin Active, Planet Fitness, Run/Walk for Life, Curves or SA-Active.

Vitality Health screenings

  • Including blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, serious disease and weight checks, pap smears, mammograms, prostate checks, glaucoma screenings, HIV tests and more.

Vitality Nutrition Assessment

  • Get your eating habits assessed, your weight checked and your vital measurements taken – in line with your medical status and lifestyle factors like diet and physical activity.

Vitality Fitness Assessment

  • Take essential tests and get valuable feedback on fitness and health, along with a comprehensive fitness report and exercise programme.

Vitality’s online Nutrition Centre

  • Analyse your eating habits and create an online meal plan to suit your lifestyle.

Vitality’s online Personal Health Review

  • Assess the risks to your health with this interactive Web based tool.

Vitality’s online stress centre

  • Check how life’s pressures affect you with assessments on stress, personality, burnout, anxiety and depression.

Babies and Children

  • Expert advice and support for new and expectant moms, along with valuable savings on car seats, prams, nappies and other baby items. Children get great rewards like free movies and discounts on top brands for completing healthy activities.

Lose weight

  • Join Weight Watchers or Weigh-Less for 30% less than standard rates and earn more Vitality points by reaching your goal weight.

Become smoke-free

  • Earn Vitality points by declaring your non-smoker status. Get help to kick the habit by joining Smokenders or Allen Carr’s Easyway for a discount of up to 80%.

Don’t forget, you’ll also save up to 75% on over 10,000 healthy food products at Pick n Pay just by activating your HealthyFoodTM benefit with a Personal Health Review.

Vitality is the key to better health. And better health brings more Vitality benefits. That’s why it’s so important to learn how to use Vitality and grow your status. From Blue status, all the way through to Diamond, IHS will help you get the most from Vitality. We’ll give you guidance on how to improve your status and access huge savings with health partners and lifestyle benefits like movies , travel, shopping and much more.

Now you can get Vitality with Discovery Life too

Why not talk to us today about accessing Vitality through Discovery Life? We’ll help you more than cover the cost of an integrated Discovery Life policy so you’ll enjoy more Vitality benefits

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Unlocking your Vitality travel benefits

Vitality offers huge savings on a range of travel related purchases. Whether you’re a regular traveller or an occasional tourist, the discounts on flights, hotels, car hire and bus travel will always put cash back in your pocket.

Now you don’t need to be a Discovery Health member to access Vitality

As with other Vitality benefits, savings are based on your Vitality status. Even when you join you’ll start with 15% off certain flights and a relaxing 15% off hotel accommodation – all of which will increase as your status grows. If you were to pay your hotel accommodation with a Discovery Credit Card you can save as much as 50% on your accommodation.

Vitality’s Most Popular Travel Benefits

British Airways international flights

  • From Athens to Vancouver and more, visit 31 top destinations across the globe on either World Traveller or World Traveller Plus. Get up to 35% off the lowest advertised airfare*.

Emirates international flights

  • Travel to 14 destinations that attract an up to 35% flight discount*.

Kulula and British Airways domestic flights

  • Fly throughout South Africa with these airlines and save between 15% and 35% off the lowest advertised airfare between major SA cities*.

Car hire

  • Choose from the widest range of vehicles and locations at Imperial or Eurocar and save up to 25% off the lowest advertised car rental rate.

Discovery Hotel Collection

  • Business or leisure, budget or luxury – over 500 hotels from South Africa to the Seychelles. You save between 15% to 50% on the lowest rates publicly available on selected top hotels.

Greyhound

  • Even as a new Vitality member you get the maximum saving of 20% on any Greyhound journey in South Africa.

You Can Go Even Further With A DiscoveryCard

If you have a DiscoveryCard your travel benefits grow even further. You’ll save up to 50% on British Airways international flights* and up to 22% with Vitality’s travel partners like World Leisure Holidays, Royal Caribbean International or Contiki Holidays. You’ll also earn Discovery Miles every time you use your card to spend on hundreds of already discounted Vitality offers.

You Can Also Join Vitality Through Discovery Life

With the added advantage of award-winning Discovery Life cover you can rest easier while you reap your Vitality benefits. With so much on offer, why not find out how IHS will help you get Vitality now!

*excludes airport taxes

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Vitality brings healthier, cheaper eating With Pick n Pay

With Vitality you can save up to 25% off all your healthy food purchases at Pick n Pay. Eating well can often prove expensive when you choose premium healthy products. But with Vitality you get great savings on all kinds of foods to improve your health, whether you are a member of Discovery Health , Discovery Life or both. By linking purchasing with your Discovery Credit Card and depending on your Vitality status you can receive up to 10 times as many miles each month.

Vitality with Discovery Life

As a Discovery Life member you start saving right away with 10% off your healthy food purchases. Then, by taking a simple Health Risk Assessment, you instantly graduate to the full 25% discount.

What kinds of food are included?

You save on more than just basic products with Vitality at Pick n Pay. Your discount applies to a huge range of over 10,000 products that Vitality has identified to help enhance your wellbeing and reduce the risk of chronic diseases. All manner of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins and good fats are included, so you can enjoy almost unlimited variety, for less.

Access Vitality through Discovery Health AND Discovery Life

Discover more about Vitality and the benefits of Discovery Health and Discovery Life cover. Just provide a few details and we’ll show you how to get started with Vitality now!.

View the table below for a more comprehensive list of food types that form part of the Vitality Pick n Pay HealthyFood™ programme.

Fruit Frozen Strawberries Raisins, Organic Medium Noodles Weigh-Less High Fibre Bran Strawberry Yoghurt
Amar Dates Fruit Cocktail Redcurrants Noodles Wheat Free UHT Milk
Apple Rings Fruit Mix Seeded Nutty Wheat Dumpy Bread Wheat Free Rye Yoghurt
Apple Roll Fruit Roll Seedless Raisins Oats Wheat Germ Soya
Apricot Halves Fruit Roll Guava Soft Apricots Organic Couscous Wheat Loaf Baked Beans
Apricots Fruit Roll Peach Soft Pitted Dates Organic Pasta White Rice Black Lentils
Assorted Berries Genoa Figs Soft Pitted Prunes Parboiled Rice Whole Grain Brown Lentils
Black Cherries Golden Delicious Apples Strawberry Penne Rigate Whole Wheat Brown Bread Kidney Beans
Blackberries Granadilla Roll Sultanas Penne Zitoni Wholegrain Lentils
Blackcurrants Grapefruit Turkish Apricots Popcorn Wholegrain Sliced Bread Soya Beans
Blueberries Guava Halves Weigh-Less Pear Halves Pronutro Wholewheat Soya Milk
Cape Gooseberries Guava Roll Weigh-Less Pineapple Pieces Pumpernickel Rye Sliced Wide Noodles Split Peas
Cherries Hanepoot Raisins Carbohydrate-rich foods Raisin Health Bread Protein-rich foods Sugar Beans
Cranberries Mandarin Oranges All Bran Flakes Ravioli Boneless Chicken Breast Fats & Oils
Cranberry Slices Mango Barley Flakes Rice Breast Fillets Cold Pressed Olive Oil
Currants Mango Slices Basmati Rice Rolled Oats Chicken Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Datal Raisins Mango Strips Braai Wholewheat Rolls Rye Bagels Chicken Breasts Olive Oil
Dates Medjool Dates Bran Flakes Rye Baguette Chicken Mince Olive Oil Spray
Desert Dates Nectarine Roll Bread Rye Bread Chicken Thighs Vegetable oils
Dried Banana Nectarines Breakfast Rye Bread Rolls Drumsticks Nuts & Seeds
Dried Cling Peaches Organic Dried Pineapple Broetchen Rye Loaf Eggs Almonds
Dried Cranberries Papaya Diced Brown Rice Rye Roll Fish Caraway Seeds
Dried Figs Papaya Slices California Sour Rye Rye Sliced Hake Cashew Nuts
Dried Fruit Paw Paw Couscous Samp Salmon Diced Almonds
Dried Mango Peach Halves Digestive Bran Seed Bread Sardines Flaked Almonds
Dried Mangoes Peach Slices Fettuccine Seed breads Snoek Ground Almonds
Dried Papino Peaches Fibre Cereal Seed Loaf Trout Hazelnuts
Dried Pineapple Peaches Peeled GI Seed Bread Seed Roll Yellowtail Linseeds
Dried Prunes Pear Halves Gluten Free Seeded Bagel Dairy Macadamia Nuts
Dried Sharon Fruit Pear Roll Granary Bread Seeded Loaf Bulgarian Yoghurt Peanuts
Dry Figs Peeled Peaches Lasagne Semolina Cottage Cheese Pistachio Nuts
Dry Majul Dates Pie Apple Segments Lasagne Sheets Shredded Wheat Fat Free Milk Poppy Seeds
Dry Plums Pineapple Linguine Sliced Linseed Fresh Milk Pumpkin Seeds
Dry Raisins Pineapple Diced Linseed Bread Spaghetti Hi-Calcium Milk Roasted Cashew Nuts
Fig Roll Pineapple Rings Long Grain Rice Sunseed Bread Long Life Milk Sesame Seeds
Figs Pitted Dates Low GI Bread Sushi Rice Long Life Skim Milk Sunflower Seeds
Frozen Cranberries PnP Banana Fingers Low GI Loaf Tagliatelle Milk Powder Walnuts
Frozen Gooseberries Prunes Low GI Multiseed Bread Tagliolini Milk Sachet
Frozen Mixed Berries Raisins Macaroni Thai Rice Salad Yoghurt

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Unlock the Discovery Vitality gym membership benefit

Most Vitality members agree that the Discovery Vitality gym membership benefit which gives access professional gyms at vastly reduced rates, or even for free, is at the heart of why they want to be on the Vitality program. Discovery’s motivation for this is simple: the more active you are, the healthier you become and the less it costs Discovery to cover your health risks. That also means you could qualify for reduced premiums on Discovery Health and Discovery Life.

The more you improve your health by visiting your Vitality linked gym regularly, the more points you earn and the further you can grow your Vitality status – entitling you to even bigger savings and greater benefits.

But it’s not just gym membership you get with Vitality. You can also pursue other fun activities, enabling you to run, walk, cycle, golf and gym your way to wellness.

Serious savings when you join Vitality gyms and fitness clubs like:

Virgin Active

  • The main member and/or spouse each pay a once-off joining fee of R1450, after which only 25% of the regular membership fees are payable and depending how many of your weekly Active Rewards Goals you’ve met during the month Discovery will refund you up to the 25% you’ve paid. Children under 18 get free gym access, while adult dependents pay only 50% of the regular monthly rate.

Planet Fitness

  • The main member and/or spouse each pay a once-off joining fee of R1450 , after which only 20% of the regular membership fees are payable. Adult dependants pay only 50% of the regular monthly rate. Children under 18 gym for free when you join through Vitality.

Run/Walk For Life

  • You get an 80% saving on a year’s membership.

Curves

  • Join the world’s largest and first fitness and weight-loss facility designed just for women, for free.
For vast savings on Vitality gym memberships and a host of lifestyle benefits, talk to IHS about how you can access reduced Discovery Life insurance and get Discovery Vitality now.