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The 2012 Olympics is a great opportunity to have a new beginning. A new beginning to eat well, feel good and get active! Even the smallest of changes can

make you feel like a superstar athlete.

This is your opportunity!!

Small steps 4 life are all about getting Britain ready for the Olympics this year with a whole range of challenges and helpful tips and tricks to get you feeling and

looking better. Findings from surveys recently taken have helped to produce a whole range of fun and easy activities that you can take up for just 4 months. Take up one of these challenges and get your very own challenge card to track

your progress

Its Olympic size fun!!

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The Olympic and Paralympics values are...The Olympic Values

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respectThe Paralympic Values

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Small steps 4 life is all about living healthier and in the run up to the Olympics they have a range of sports info, recipes and competitions inspired by the 2012 Olympics to get you “eating well, moving more and living longer”

So go check it out!!

Olympic valuesThe Olympic and Paralympics games are come close!!To fully understand the significance of these Olympic games we must first understand the values which are being promoted during the games

Eat well

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The average daily intake for a teenager: 2000 calories

There are 3 challenges for eat well, they are “eat breakfast”, “eat more fruit” and “try new things”

Eat breakfastSet your alarm ten minutes early. It may feel painful at first but soon you'll enjoy how much better you feel for eating breakfast

Eat more fruitMake sure the target you set is

realistic. You may want to smash the world record (if there is

one!) but are you really going to eat 14 pieces of fruit a day?

Try new things

Ever heard your Mum say 'How do you

know you don't like it until you've tried

it?' Well, she's kind of got a point. Why

not take a class challenge to try a new

food each week? You never know, you

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In a survey taken nearly half of the teens asked said they would most prefer to learn how to eat healthily over anything else… well here's you chance!

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When asked how many teenagers ate their “5 a day”, more

people said yes but we want it ALL to be yes

How many people said they eat 5 pieces of fruit or veg a day

Feel good information and possible challenges, including findings from your survey and other research

Feel good

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We all know we feel at out worst when times get tough, so here are some simple ways to keep you feeling fab

Get plenty of rest(a teenager should get roughly 8-9 hours beauty sleep)

Have fun(When you laugh, endorphins ("feelgood" hormones) are released, meaning you’ll probably feel more relaxed and less stressed)

Talk to a friend(friends are there to help, a problem shared is a problem halved)

Try the 24-hour rule(try walking away, sleeping on it and then if it’s a real problem I'm sure it will still be there once you’ve had time to think sensibly)

Here are 3 challenges you could try to make sure you feel good

Doddle diaryTake some time each day to yourself to think things through and doodle as you go. You'll be surprised how much more chilled you feel afterwards!

ME timeMake time in you day to think,

relax and unwind. If you're

doing this challenge at home

than tell your family so they

know not to disturb you!

Help someone elseIt may sound weird, but helping someone

else can be a really good way of feeling better about yourself. So take this

challenge to help others, and see how it benefits you too. Check out local

volunteering opportunities.

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7 out of the 20 teens I asked said they didn’t get ATLEAST 8 hours sleep- no wonder so many people are cranky!!

How many people said they have 8 hours sleep a night

Getting active

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Get dancing

Get a group of friends together

and make up a dance routine to a

song you all like. We suggest a

minimum of 2 practices a week to

have a dance routine perfected by

the end of week 3

Jump the runSpend up to 30

minutes jumping, skipping and running every day for a week. Make it fun and work

out how you can count or measure what you do. See if you can get better by the end of

the week.

5 a weekChoose five activities that you enjoy doing or that you would like to try out. These can be any activities that

get you moving. Set a realistic target for each of these activities - for example, walk 3 miles in an hour, dance non stop for 15mins, keep a tennis ball up for 5 mins.... Your aim will be to reach your target in your final week

by doing one of these activities on each day of your final week. You could have an audience of your

sponsors and do the final challenge in front of them

alonewith friends The majority of the teenagers I asked said they would prefer to do the

challenges with a friend, the getting active challenges are perfect for that- the more the merrier!!

How many people would do the challenges alone or with a friend

Getting active challenges are;

A teenager should try to do 30 minutes of exercise 3-4 times a week, so lets make it fun to do!