About Us
The Family Fitness Challenge is sponsored by the Anne Arundel
County Department of Health’s Learn To Live Program
 The Learn To Live Program is a community-based program that focuses
on healthy living. For fifteen years, the program has helped thousands of County residents
quit smoking or never start to smoke, encouraged them to get cancer
screenings, offered information about healthy eating and encouraged
them to protect themselves from the sun.
Lack of exercise and poor eating habits place County residents at
increased risk not only for cancer but diabetes and cardiovascular
disease as well. Recent surveys found that one out of four of County adults are obese and an additional 39% are overweight. For school-age children 15.6% are overweight and another 16.9% are at risk of being overweight.
The Family Fitness Challenge is a fun, interactive program designed for County residents of all ages to get Anne Arundel County on the move and eating better! What better way to shape up!
Objectives of the Family Fitness Challenge:
The objectives of the Family Fitness Challenge are:
- To increase physical activity for adults (over the age of 18) to
a minimum of 30 minutes per day 6 to 7 days per week and to increase
physical activity for children (under the age of 18) to at least 60
minutes per day 6 to 7 days per week.
- To increase fruit and vegetable consumption to at least 5
servings per day.
The Learn To Live Team
The Health Department’s Learn To Live Team specialists provide targeted health programs for the
County’s general adult population, seniors, youth and minority
communities. Many County residents, community organizations,
healthcare providers, businesses and others have also played a key
role in making Learn To Live a success.
Please join us. |
