What is the c.h.e.f. Challenge?
Everyone can be a c.h.e.f. (cook.healthy.exercise.frequently.)
In America, 1 out of 3 kids are either overweight, obese, or at risk; and a third of kids under the age of 18 are also at risk of Type II Diabetes. This means that most overweight or obese children will become overweight or obese adults: it is a growing health problem. So, if kids learned how to cook healthier, they would end up eating healthier. Also, exercising is an important part of being healthy. It helps with our hearts and can prevent a lot of different health diseases.
With everyone able to become a c.h.e.f. (cook.healthy.exercise.frequently.), obesity can be lessened and, hopefully, in the future, eliminated.
How Can I Get Involved?
We would want YOU to take a challenge to encourage yourself, and others, to eat and live healthier. This c.h.e.f. challenge is geared to encourage kids and adults to eat healthier by learning how help and/or cook, in the kitchen, healthy meals, and being active. The challenge would last for 3 months, because this is how long it is said for a habit to form.
Challengers can write down their experience in an online daily diary, writing about what they ate, what they cooked, and what they did to be active. They are to also write about, if any, experiences they had in encouraging another person(s), whether it be a kid, an adult, a family, a class, a school, or a community, and what was accomplished.
At the end of the 3-month challenge, each challenger will be entered into a contest where they will send in an (online) essay, 100 words or less, describing their experience in the last 3 months and how they accomplished getting healthy, how they plan to continue staying healthy, and if and how they encouraged others.
The winner will be selected on their personal goal for the future, what they did to accomplish healthy cooking skills and exercising frequently, and how they may have encouraged others. The top 3 winners will receive T- Shirt. The top winner will win a $500 prize, a bicycle, and a chance to guest star on the show. The second place winner will win $250, and the third place winner will win $100.
Throughout the competition, there will be prizes given out. All those participants who have fulfilled all areas of the competition, at specific times (bi-weekly and monthly) will be put into a drawing for a prize!
How the winner is chosen?
1. All essays must contain:
• 100 words or less
• Proper spelling and grammar
• Experiences during the c.h.e.f. Challenge
• How they encouraged others (if applicable)
• What your favorite dish to cook is
• What your favorite fitness activity
• How you plan on continuing to stay healthy
• If and how the c.h.e.f. Challenge has changed your life and/or someone elses.
2. Along with your essay, your online daily diary will be reviewed to determine the c.h.e.f. challenge winner. Use the website’s Daily Diary Entry section to help keep track of your daily intakes (food and drink) and all your physical activities. Make sure you still fill in your online daily diary at least ONCE A WEEK. If you do not fill in the Daily Diary at least once a week, you will not be eligible for that bi-weekly/ monthly drawing prize.
Online diaries are only accessed by you and the Cook Time Staff. You must register at the c.h.e.f. Challenge login to become a contestant. If you are under the age or 13, please read our Privacy Policies and Terms and Conditions.
4. The c.h.e.f. Challenge Forum is there for you to communicate with other challengers and the Cook Time Staff, along with Remmi, herself.
5. The challenge starts November 1st, 2010 and ends January 31st, 2011.
6. Essays and questions will be emailed to Us (Click to Email) by February 12, 2011, 11:59pm CT. Entries sent after this time will not be accepted.
7. The winners will be announce at the end of February, 2011
Join the c.h.e.f. Challenge and be a part of helping America eliminate obesity today!
