Healthy LifeStars is a non-profit organization that combats childhood obesity. In September and October 2015, Healthy LifeStars was featured in numerous local news articles and media placements to promote their Step Up 4 Kids Challenge. The Challenge encouraged Arizona residents to track their daily steps using a pedometer to support Healthy LifeStars' mission. Some of the media outlets that covered the Challenge included the EastvalleyTribune, ArizonaFoothillsMagazine, Macaronikid.com, AZJewishLife.com, Arizona Health and Living West Side, Raising Kids Arizona, Arizona Parenting Magazine, Scottsdale.com, the Scottsdale Republic, Phoenix Magazine, MesaIndependent.com, Skinnyf

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September 20th
of 2015 the EastvalleyTribune.com talks about how Healthy
LifeStars combats childhood obesity and provides details about the non-
profit, such as the core values and much more, that you can find here.
Step Up 4 Kids Challenge recognition started on September
19th
of 2015 with a mention in
ArizonaFoothillsMagazine.com and the details involved to
sign up. You can read about it here.
Healthy LifeStars Step Up 4 Kids 2015 Social Media Activities
Macaronikid.com featured an article about Healthy LifeStars on their blog multiple
times between September 20th
and October 13th. You can read about how “Over
18,000 kids and their families have been served by Healthy LifeStars…” and much
more here.
On September 25th
2015, Debra Rich Gettleman wrote an article in AZJewishLife.com describing Healthy
LifeStars, talking about some of the key staff and Board members involved as well as what the Step Up 4
Kids Challenge is all about here.
October 1st
was a big day for the Step Up 4 Kids Challenge:
 We were featured in Arizona Health and Living West Side telling everyone
how Healthy LifeStars challenged all Arizona residents to Step Up 4 Kids.
 Do you “ever wonder how many steps you take in a day?” Well an article
in Raising Kids Arizona has more details on how you can do that, available
to read here.
 If any readers of the Arizona Parenting Magazine wanted to know how to
sign up for the Step Up 4 Kids Challenge, they were able to read it in the
October 2015 edition or they could read it online, here.
On October 6th
, Scottsdale.com featured an article on how helping the fight
against childhood obesity involves just a few simple steps that you can read
here.

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On October 7th
, the Scottsdale Republic wrote a
wonderful article explaining the importance of
Healthy LifeStars and how they help protect the
future of the ones you love most, that you can find
here.
Leah Lemoine of the “Phoenix Magazine” informed all of her
readers on October 12th
that “more than one-third of
American children are overweight or obese” and how Healthy
LifeStars is fighting it and more that you can read here.
On October 3rd
, Richard Dyer wrote an article on MesaIndependent.com about two of
Healthy LifeStars’ poster girls, Kassidy and Kaprice. They were interviewed about their
experience with Healthy LifeStars and what the Step Up 4 Kids Challenge means to them.
Read the girls thoughts by clicking here.
Three days later, Megan wrote an article on her Skinnyfitalicious.com blog explaining what Healthy
LifeStars does and all of the details of participating in the Step Up 4 Kids Challenge and much more.
Ruann Ernst made her first appearance on Money Radio on
October 6th
to talk about the impact that Healthy LifeStars has
had on the community and much more that you can hear here
(scroll down for the 1st
episode on the 6th
).
On October 13th
, there were two media placements: a follow-up radio appearance on Money Radio
with Ruann Ernst talking about the Step Up Challenge and a segment on 12 NEWS that interviewed the
dynamic duo Kassidy and Kaprice on their goals for the Step Up Challenge. You can watch and listen to
both by clicking here.