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Eastern Long Island Hospital Creates New Challenge
The Hospital created a Fitness Challenge to encourage healthier lifestyles and help raise money.
Eastern Long Island Hospital has created a new challenge to encourage a healthier lifestyle and help raise money for the CARE Campaign.
“Just like the ALS Ice Bucket challenge, the Fitness Challenge is tied to fundraising,” Paul J. Connor III, President/CEO of Eastern Long Island Hospital said. “In this case, it’s the 2015 CARE Campaign, the Annual Appeal for Eastern Long Island Hospital.
The challenge asks people to walk 10,000 steps regularly in honor of the Hospital’s 110 year anniversary in 2015.
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As recommended in a study reported in Sports Medicine, January 2004, the number of steps needed for a healthy active lifestyle is 10,000 per day. A sedentary person averages 1,000 to 3,000 steps daily.
As part of this campaign, Connor asked others to pledge to take 10,000 steps a day, video their first 10 steps, post their video to Facebook and challenge three others to do the same or donate to the 2015 CARE Campaign.
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The goal to reach 110 participants was accomplished by Tuesday, Dec. 2. Those who uploaded a video, won a free pedometer.
Jill Schroeder of JABS in Cutchogue, a participating Fitness Challenge partner and her group, completed a total of 1,376,211 STEPS and raised $1,000 for ELIH during the month of November.
ELIH plans to extend the Fitness Challenge through the coming year and is pleased to report that Mark Miller, a resident of Southold and owner of Miller Enviromental has made a pledge to donate one dollar for every foot climbed on Equador’s two highest peaks, with his son, Evan, this coming January.
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