Blue Zones Challenge

The Blue Zones Challenge is a four-week health and fitness program. It empowers students to take charge of their own health and to apply what they discover in our Quests to their own lives. Through this challenge, students have the opportunity to actually create their own personal Blue Zones.

Experts have shown that for the first time in living history, it's possible that children's lifespan will be shorter than that of their parents. The culprit: childhood obesity. Children are more inactive and eat fewer healthy foods than in decades past. The Danish Twin Study established that our genes determine 30 percent of our longevity, while 70 percent depends on our lifestyle. So we've chosen four lifestyle behaviors that we have learned contribute to a long and healthy life.

The Blue Zones Challenge teams students, parents, and educators in an effort to alter the four key behaviors that impact childhood obesity. This personalized program empowers students, with the support of their parents and teachers, to take charge of their own health by tracking servings of fruits and vegetables; periods of physical activity; servings of sweetened beverages; and periods of watching television.

The time is now to make significant differences in children's lives. Though this program is designed for students, we encourage everyone to track and set goals that can lead to a long and healthy life.