‘Subway Guy’ Talks Healthy Eating at Midlands Schools

Columbia, S.C.  (WOLO)  —   Thousands of Midlands students are tracking their fruit and vegetable consumption, along with drinking water and participating in more physical activity, in the SUBWAY® Fit for Life 15 Day Challenge underway in November. From now until Thanksgiving, 6,500 students in classrooms across the Midlands will begin tracking their healthy eating and physical activity choices.

Local students are reporting their progress, as Jared Fogle of SUBWAY® restaurants pays a visit to area schools participating in the challenge. Jared is a leader in the movement to help children learn life-long healthy eating and physical activity habits. The 15-day challenge being taken across the Carolinas was created in honor of Jared’s 15 years keeping his weight off. In 1998, Jared weighed over 425 pounds. Through hard work and dedication, he lost more than 245 pounds. The entire Midlands community is invited to take the SUBWAY® Fit for Life 15 Day Challenge.  Tracking forms are available online at www.Fitfor15.net.

One in eight pre-schoolers is obese.  Overweight school children are five times more likely than normal weight children to become adults who are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Jared shocked a packed room of students at Lonnie B. Nelson Elementary School Thursday morning when he showed off the 60″ waist pair of jeans he used to wear.  Yes, he really did eat two Subway sandwiches a day for years. He eats them only a couple times a week now.

Fogle visited Brockman and Lonnie B. Nelson Elementary Schools and Summit Parkway Middle School while in Columbia.  More than 50,000 students in the Carolinas region are participating in the challenge.