MISS AMERICAChats about Being America’s Sweetheart…While Revealing to Your Listeners Her Quest to Inspire the Health and Wellness of America’s Teens! What: American teenagers are trying to live a healthy lifestyle; however according to a recent national survey and a survey of people in each of the 50 states about their health and wellness, the health and wellness of our community needs improvement. The survey reveals that an alarming 23-percent of Americans (approximately 52 million people!) are not exercising for at least 30 minutes or more at a time on a regular basis, and 42-percent state that the economy is having a negative impact on their wellness choices. When it comes to weight, perception and reality unfortunately do not align with 45-percent considering themselves obese or overweight despite the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) warning that approximately 66-percent of Americans are either overweight or obese! With such shocking statistics, never has it been more important to encourage the health and wellness of America teenagers. And…who better than one of the world’s most famous teens, the newly crowned MISS AMERICA 2008 Kirsten Haglund to share with your listeners her involvement with the Amway Global/YMCA Wellness Initiative dedicated to inspiring teenagers to promote health and wellness in their communities through acts as advocating for healthy food options in schools, setting up after-school walking groups or sports’ teams, and much more. Kirsten will reveal to your listeners how health and wellness-conscious teens can be nominated for their work within their communities and how one Teen Wellness Leader from each of the 50 states will receive a $1,000 scholarship and a $1,000 donation toward his/her local YMCA! In addition to revealing her quest to improve the health and wellness of American teenagers, MISS AMERICA will chat about her own experience as the queen of our land and the easy tips and tools that she advocates for teens to lead a healthier lifestyle! MISS AMERICA 2008 Kirsten Haglund Newly crowned MISS AMERICA 2008 Kirsten Haglund~a 19-year-old Farmington, Michigan native and University of Cincinnati graduate who is striving for her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre and would like to become a Broadway star, is passionate about her platform issue: raising of awareness of eating disorders. Kirsten describes the defining moment in her life as realizing that she suffered from an eating disorder and “making the decision, my own decision, to recover.” A lover of books, academia, school, watching the news, and being an enormous Harry Potter fan, Kirsten is most proud of her performance as a soloist with the Burklyn Ballet Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Kirsten’s grandmother also represented the state of Michigan at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in 1944! To learn much more about MISS AMERICA 2008 Kirsten Haglund and the MISS AMERICA pageant as well as for a list of all of the previous MISS AMERICAS since 1921 when the pageant first began, please log onto http://www.missamerica.org . The Miss America Organization is the world’s largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women and one of the nation’s leading achievement programs. The Miss America Organization provides young women with a vehicle to further their personal and professional goals and instills a spirit of community service through a variety of unique nationwide programs.?
