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NSU Students, Staff to Start New Year with “NSU’s Biggest Loser” Weight-Loss Challenge
FT. LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – Selected students and staff at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) will begin the new year with a challenge to lose weight and get in shape as NSU’s Biggest Loser returns for a fourth year.
Based on the popular NBC television show by the same name, NSU’s Biggest Loser takes 18 participants through a 16-week weight-loss program. Like the show, they will be divided into teams and participate in team and individual workouts with trainers. Participants will have regular meetings with a nutritionist and keep journals of their daily nutrition and exercise. They will also receive motivational coaching from NSU’s Healthy Lifestyle Guided Self-Change Program.
An opening workshop will be held on Jan. 8 and weigh-ins and workouts begin on Jan. 11. The competition will run through May.
In the first three years of NSU’s Biggest Loser, the 40 employees and students who completed the program lost a combined total of 1,038 pounds – an average of 26 pounds per participant. Prizes are awarded to the individual and the team with the highest percentage of weight lost and to individuals with the most improved blood pressure and/or cholesterol, most total inches lost and highest percentage of body fat lost.
“The Biggest Loser program helped me change my life forever,” said Mary Friel, NSU’s director of undergraduate recruitment, who lost 55 pounds in the 2009 program to claim the title of NSU’s Biggest Loser. “I feel better about myself mentally and physically, and people say I smile more and seem happier. I would not have been able to do it without having this program.”
The Biggest Loser program is part of NSU’s Be Well Initiative, which incorporates all dimensions of wellness – emotional, intellectual, occupational, physical, social and spiritual – and promotes a culture of wellness at the university.
About Nova Southeastern University: Situated on 300 beautiful acres in Davie, Florida, Nova Southeastern University is a dynamic fully accredited institution dedicated to providing high-quality educational programs of distinction from preschool through the professional and doctoral levels. NSU has more than 26,000 students and is the sixth largest not-for-profit independent institution nationally. The university awards associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, specialist, doctoral, and first-professional degrees in a wide range of fields, including business, counseling, computer and information sciences, education, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, dentistry, various health professions, law, marine sciences, early childhood, psychology and other social sciences. For more information visit www.nova.edu.
Media Contact:
Alan Hancock , NSU Office of Public Affairs
954-262-5385, hancocka@nova.edu