Stay on Track with the VegOut! Challenge Mobile App

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If you are thinking of changing your diet for the new year, why not take the VEGOUT! challenge?

Houston and San Antonio city council members are asking people to join the VEGOUT! challenge March of 2016 to eat more vegetables for at least 30 days to benefit the health of their cities. Many Latinos live in both of these urban cities and have high health risks associated to diet-related issues like obesity and diabetes. Research has shown that diets that consist of more fruits and vegetables and less junk food are beneficial to a person’s health.

In response to helping San Antonio and Houston’s health risks vanish, the VEGOUT! challenge can help participants in the campaign learn how to cook healthy vegetable recipes, include more vegetables in their daily diet and track all their great veggie consumption in an easy-to-use mobile phone app!

The ways the VEGOUT! challenge is reaching out to the community are as follows:

• School Contests: In elementary schools, with incentives of winning cash and a party.
• Employer Contests: Between local employers to see how they bring the “veg out” campaign to life on their campuses through their own food service operations, as well as employee wellness and benefits programs.
• Outdoor Advertising: On billboards, mass transit vehicles, and stations.
• Social Media Contests: Residents can upload photos via social network channels of their food art using the hashtag #vegout on Facebook and Twitter.
• Public Art Engagement: Challenge local artists to develop their own “veg out” public art installations to be bid on by local businesses and individuals in an online silent auction to help raise funds for the activities of the Mayor’s Fitness Council.
• A New Mobile Phone App: Allows smartphone users to easily track their vegetable consumption in conjunction with the site vegoutwithrfs.org.

Adding more fruits and vegetables to your diet can help you stay on the right track towards a healthier new year and new you.

Learn more about how you can get involved by taking the VEGOUT! challenge, winning prizes and starting a healthier new diet here!

To learn more about how and why the VEGOUT! challenge started, click here.