Want to become more active with your family? Win great prizes for you and your community? Then take the Healthy Families BC Walking Challenge.
For six weeks, from Monday, Aug. 8 until Monday, Sept. 19, you can map your walks and share personal experiences on-line. The more posts you enter, the more chances you have to win some great prizes like pedometers, family packs or the grand prize of one of six family trips to a popular destination in B.C.
"We all know the benefits of staying healthy and being active, yet many of us find we're simply too busy," said Health Minister Michael de Jong. "By taking part in the Healthy Families BC Walking Challenge, families can open themselves to a new, healthier way of living. You don't have to pay to take classes or buy expensive equipment. Any type of physical activity like walking is a good place to start."
Everyone knows what it takes to live a healthy lifestyle: be physically active, eat nutritious meals, get plenty of sleep, and limit alcohol and eliminate tobacco use, but it takes a commitment to this kind of lifestyle change. With this challenge, families from across B.C. will be motivated to not only increase physical activity through walking, but also keep up healthy habits as a lifelong commitment.
You can help your community win big, too -just by sharing stories, photos or videos of your favourite walk. Weekly prizes, such as soccer balls and pedometers, will be awarded to communities across B.C. Grand prizes of cash totalling $100,000 will also be awarded to winning communities at the end of the challenge. The top five communities in their population size range with the most submissions will each receive $10,000 to support the development of walking trails. One of the five winning communities will be randomly drawn to receive an additional $50,000.
The Healthy Families BC Walking Challenge is offered in collaboration with 2010 Legacies Now and funded by the Provincial Health Service Authority as part of the Healthy Families BC initiative of the B.C. Ministry of Health.
Share your healthy lifestyle stories and see how other communities around the province are doing at: www.HealthyFamiliesBCWalkingChallenge.ca.
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