| The Office of Community Services is accepting applications for its third annual Healthy Palmetto Challenge, a free four-month program to help 12 obese children lose weight and develop healthy lifestyles. Participants must be between the ages of 10 and 13, be overweight and live in Richland or Lexington County. As part of the challenge, the children will exercise twice a week for 45-minute sessions with a staff member from USC’s Good Bodies program. Each child will receive an exercise plan and will meet with a registered nurse to address nutrition and meal plans. Children must be nominated by a parent, guardian or physician and must participate in at least two programs a week that address physical activity and nutrition. Referred children must submit a photo or video and a 100-word (or less) essay about why they want to make a lifestyle change by 5 p.m. Oct. 30. |
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