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NEW YORK: Room service? I'd like to order a treadmill. Hotel chains are delivering everything from yoga videos to recumbent bicycles to guests who prefer to work out their jet lag, or shape up for that business meeting, in the privacy of their rooms.

"Probably fitness equipment is the biggest request we get from guests," said Vivian A Deuschl of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. "It's the biggest preoccupation of business travellers besides getting their work done, so we try to make fitness available on any basis they ask for."

In-room fitness options aren't limited to Pilates DVDs and yoga mats, although both are in high demand at most of the company's 78 hotels worldwide, according to Deuschl.

MUMBAI: Leading American diet food-maker Atkins will soon be hawking its weight-management products in the domestic market, a top company official said.

"Within the next three to six months you will see Atkins products here. We are trying to find the right distributor that can hawk our products and run our educational training system to begin with. Later on, we may look at opening Atkins Clinics," Atkins Regional Director for Middle East, Africa and Asia, Greg Boucher told PTI here.

The USD 2.4-billion Denver-based Atkins Nutritionals Inc is a diet/healthy foods major specialises mostly in sugar-free products with its most popular brands are Advantage, Day Break, and Endulge. Atkins markets its wares in 16 countries.