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National Rural Health Day Challenge

As a way to help our rural communities improve their overall wellbeing, we’ve created a special challenge. Log exercise that you’ve completed, and move virtually around the state.

Can your team move all the way around Nebraska? Engage in a friendly competition to log miles.

Sign up: Oct 16th
Challenge starts: Oct 21st

There are no milestones of this type.

Get started today!

Sign up for Walk to Unlock Nebraska, and/or go to the manager dashboard to “add a new team”. The trail will be active to “travel” Oct 21th – Nov 21st 

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Now that’s teamwork, Nebraska!

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National Rural Health Day Challenge

 

Minds and movement matter

With so much time on screens, Americans young and old are not getting the recommended physical activity needed for optimal health. The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition recommends that children and adolescents ages 6 to 17 years do 60 minutes or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily. However, less than one-quarter (24%) of children in this age group actually achieve this goal. Each week adults need 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity and 2 days of muscle strengthening activity. However, as of 2020, it’s the same story: only 24.2% of adults aged 18 and over met the recommendation. The percentage of adults who met both physical activity guidelines was higher among men (28.3%) than women (20.4%) and decreased with age for both and women. 

The state of mental health

In the United States, 21% of adults (52.9 million people) have experienced a mental health condition. Unfortunately, children are also affected: one in six American children aged 2-8 years old had a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder, with one in three adolescents aged 12-17 having persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness.

The national data is similar to our Nebraska data. In Nebraska, 36% of high school students felt sad or hopeless almost every day for at least two weeks. Female students were nearly twice as likely as male students to report feeling sad or hopeless.  Worldwide, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of anxiety and depressive disorders has grown.

Share Your pRogress!

Don’t let your hard work go unnoticed! Let others come along on your journey to cheer you on, show how amazing our state is and celebrate when you complete your route. And, invite others to start a Walk to Unlock team or journey themselves. Anyone can participate!

Make the post your own.

• Add your own message
• Add photos of your team
• Add hashtags for your group
• If using a different social platform, please include #walk2unlock