NEW YORK, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- California Walnuts' search for America’s Original Health Nut is over - America has chosen Regis Balaban of Cleveland, Ohio as THE Original Health Nut™.
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Mr. Balaban was one of the six impressive finalists chosen by health nut judges Dr. Brian Wansink, Dr. Michael Roizen, Mollie Katzen, and Petra Kolber. The public have voted and chosen Mr. Balaban, the greatest health nut in the country.
About Regis Balaban
Mr. Balaban has been working with the Cleveland Public School District since the early 1980s, and has been a non-stop health nut and health nut advocate for the entire Cleveland public school community. He is now the director of food and child nutrition services.
What makes Mr. Balaban THE Original Health Nut?
Mr. Balaban has spent more than 30 years in the Cleveland Public School District advocating for students' health by ensuring that they have access to healthy and delicious breakfasts, lunches and snacks.
Mr. Balaban is also a very healthy eater. He feels strongly about having nutritional snacks available. He has a fruit basket in his office and he regularly makes his own trail mix of walnuts and dried fruit. He always makes sure to bring enough trail mix around with him so that anyone he is with can share a healthy, nutritional snack with him.
In addition to caring about the students, Mr. Balaban tries to make his own life healthier every single day. He starts every day off by walking at least 20 minutes at a quick pace and every other day he also includes stretches, weights, and sit ups. He has also spent the last 25 years taking the stairs to and from his office on the fifth floor of the building (Anyone who works with him can vouch for this!). Even if he is going to a meeting on a higher floor, he takes the stairs.
He is as nutty about other people's health as he is about his own, making him America's Original Health Nut!
The Grand Prize
In addition to the title of THE Original Health Nut, Mr. Balaban has won an all-expense paid trip with a friend to the Walnut Harvest Celebration in Napa, California this October and a donation to a charity of his choice. Mr. Balaban will bring a friend or family member who, with the help of the Original Health Nut experts, will undergo a health makeover during his Napa trip.
Interviews with Regis Balaban and the judges are available upon request.
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