Jan 31, 2016

Education on Centre: Local school districts engage in healthy competition – Centre Daily Times

Posters can easily be found hanging in schools at Penns Valley Location School District promoting the Nourishment Habit Challenge.

This is the initial year Penns Valley Location students, teachers and community members are participating in the countywide event that promotes good health and wellness.

“It is my chance that each year we will certainly have the ability to build on the program, do a lot more within our district and raise participation,” good health and bodily education teacher Andrea Borland said. “It is my chance that we can easily get hold of as lots of individuals as feasible within our school district to participate.”

But it’s not simply among those in Penns Valley.

NHC was established three years ago by One on One Health and fitness owners Bruce and Kym Burke, as a friendly competition held each February between school districts that serve Centre County.

“We developed the NHC to educate and inspire members of our community to make much better selections not only along with their diets, Yet likewise their physical exercise habits and lifestyle choices,” Bruce Burke said in an email. “We have actually developed a platform to do that, Yet we demand thousands of participants in order to win in really impacting our community’s health. If we have actually 10,000 participants, and twenty percent of them have actually lasting, meaningful change, we have actually helped 2,000 individuals live healthier lives. That is the end game.”

In it, participants opt for a nutritional behavior they commit to changing.

But the catch is that it should be considerable enough to positively affect their health, and manageable enough to finish through the month, Bruce Burke said.

If successful for at least 25 days, the participant is eligible for a prize drawing that entails a journey for four to Walt Disney World.

“It’s a excellent means to have actually a positive impact on your health,” Borland said. “Opting for one measurable Nourishment habit and holding on your own accountable is the start of a healthier lifestyle. This is something everyone can easily do.”

State College Location Higher School student Sahar Memari won the Disney journey last year.

Her commitment was to drink half her physique weight in ounces of water each day of the challenge.

According to a report from One on One Fitness, a $500 donation — among others awards — will certainly go to the district that has actually the largest lot of successful participants.

The donation should specifically go toward the school’s health committee.

As of last week, Bald Eagle Location had the most registered participants, followed by State College Area, a report from One on One Health and fitness said.

Penns Valley, Philipsburg-Osceola, St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy and Our Lady of Victory, and Bellefonte round out the rest of the ranking.

St. Joe’s and OLV are competing together.

Registration opened throughout the fall.

Last year’s NHC had 2,214 total participants, including 230 families, Bruce Burke said.

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