''Let's Just Play Go Healthy Challenge'' is an American

reality television Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring ordinary people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1990s ...

series, which aired on

Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (nicknamed Nick) is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on April 1, 1979, as the first ca ...

from April 30, 2006 to September 29, 2007. The series featured children over a six-month period in the quest to make their lives healthier.

Support

The ''Let's Just Play Go Healthy Challenge'' was mostly supported by the network and ''The Alliance for a Healthier Generation'', an initiative between the

Clinton Foundation The Clinton Foundation (founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, and renamed in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation) is a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code. It was e ...

and the

American Heart Association The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate Heart, cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability ...

. Additionally, Nickelodeon and The Alliance for a Healthier Generations formed the ''Go Healthy Challenge Champions Network'', a group of organizations that also supported the show. They include the American Heart Association,

American Diabetes Association The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is a United States-based nonprofit that seeks to educate the public about diabetes and to help those affected by it through funding research to manage, cure and prevent diabetes, including type 1 diabetes ...

, the National Association of Physical and Sports Education, National Recreation and Park Association, and the

National Rural Health Association The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is a national nonprofit professional association in the United States with more than 18,000 members. The association's mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues, which it attempts to carr ...

. They give support by helping to increase participation and awareness of the campaign.

Worldwide Day of Play

When the six-month period ended in September, Nickelodeon aired the finale on the last Saturday of September as the '' Worldwide Day of Play'', a yearly event for children and parents to turn off their TV and go outside and play. Nickelodeon and their sister networks went off the air for 3 hours from 12 noon to 3PM ET/PT during the event.

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