UnitedHealthcare Launches Second Annual Step Up for Better Health Sweepstakes to Encourage Walking & Help Reduce Childhood Ob...
March 28 2019 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
- Sweepstakes celebrates National
Walking Day and April’s Move More Month, enabling people to enter
for a chance to win one of more than 100 walking-related
prizes
- People can sign the pledge to walk
more and enter the sweepstakes at uhcwalkingmaps.com,
which provides 10,000-step walking routes in more than 50 cities
across the country
- On behalf of the first 25,000 people
to sign the pledge, UnitedHealthcare will donate a total of $25,000
to help reduce childhood obesity, including contributions to Boys
& Girls Clubs across the country and the Ginn Academy in
Cleveland
UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, has
launched the second annual Step Up for Better Health Sweepstakes, a
national initiative to encourage walking and help reduce childhood
obesity.
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Walking provides a host of potential
health benefits, including reducing the risk of chronic conditions,
boosting mood and promoting creative thinking (Source:
UnitedHealthcare).
The sweepstakes celebrates National Walking Day (April 3) and
continues throughout Move More Month (April), enabling people to
become eligible for a chance to win one of more than 100
walking-related prizes, including:
- Grand Prize: Trip for two to hike the
Grand Canyon in Arizona (one trip available);
- First Prize: Apple Watch® (10 devices
available); and
- Second Prize: $25 gift cards to Foot
Locker (100 gift cards available).
At uhcwalkingmaps.com, people can enter the sweepstakes and sign
the pledge to walk more, help reduce childhood obesity and
encourage kids to become more active. The website provides
information about the health benefits of walking and offers
10,000-step walking routes in more than 50 cities, helping people
visualize what that distance looks like in their local areas*.
On behalf of the first 25,000 people to sign the pledge,
UnitedHealthcare will donate $12,500 as well as pedometers and
treadmills to Boys & Girls Clubs across the country, and
$12,500 to the Ginn Academy, a public high school in Cleveland, in
support of the school’s track program, including new equipment and
for travel expenses to attend meets.
“Walking is a great option to help people maintain or improve
their health, so we hope our Step Up for Better Health Sweepstakes
helps encourage Americans to become more active during April and
year round,” said Richard Migliori, M.D., chief medical officer of
UnitedHealth Group. “This sweepstakes gives people a chance to win
one of hundreds of walking-related prizes by pledging to walk more,
helping encourage all who are capable to get or stay active and be
healthy.”
Studies have shown walking can help people maintain a healthier
weight, strengthen bones, ward off depression, and prevent or help
manage various chronic conditions, including heart disease, high
blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.
These Boys & Girls Clubs will receive donations: Boys &
Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St.
Louis, Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix, Boys & Girls
Clubs of Philadelphia, Boys & Girls Clubs of King County (WA),
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities (MN), Boys & Girls
Clubs of Greater San Diego, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater
Charlotte, and Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston.
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people live healthier lives and making the health system work
better for everyone by simplifying the health care experience,
meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted
relationships with care providers. In the United States,
UnitedHealthcare offers the full spectrum of health benefit
programs for individuals, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid
beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1.2 million
physicians and care professionals, and 6,500 hospitals and other
care facilities nationwide. The company also provides health
benefits and delivers care to people through owned and operated
health care facilities in South America. UnitedHealthcare is one of
the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified
health care company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare
at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
Apple Watch is a registered trademark of Apple, Inc. Apple is
not a participant or sponsor of this promotion.
1 Bassett, David R., Holly R. Wyatt, Helen Thompson, John C.
Peters, and James O. Hill. 2010. “Pedometer-Measured Physical
Activity and Health Behaviors in U.S. Adults:” Medicine &
Science in Sports & Exercise 42 (10): 1819–25.
https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181dc2e54
*Check with your doctor to determine what activity level is
right for you.** Participation in any UnitedHealthcare product or
program is not a requirement to participate in the
sweepstakes.***Financial incentives may be less due to limits under
applicable laws.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. PURCHASE WILL NOT
INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Open to legal residents of 50
U.S. and D.C., 18 or older. To Enter: Visit www.UHCWalkingmaps.com
(“Website”) between 12:01 AM CT on 3/28/19 and 11:59 PM CT on
4/30/19, follow online instructions, and agree to take the “Step Up
for Better Health” Pledge to be healthier. Prizes: Grand (1):
Travel voucher (maximum ARV $5,000); First (10): Apple Watch® (ARV
$279); Second (100): $25 Foot Locker® gift card; Odds of winning
depend on number of eligible entries received for each drawing. See
Website for drawing dates, details, limitations & Official
Rules. United HealthCare Services, Inc., Minnetonka, MN 55343.
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