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Health & Wellness Scholarship

Funded by
$500
1 winner$500
Awarded
Application Deadline
Sep 1, 2022
Winners Announced
Oct 1, 2022
Education Level
Any
Eligibility Requirements
Education Level:
High school senior, undergraduate, or graduate student
Citizenship:
U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident

Our bodies and minds are what allow us to live and enjoy our lives, so it’s important to take care of them! 

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle helps you to have the capacity to learn, grow, and progress in school and throughout your life. At Thrive, we know how hard it is to keep a healthy body and mind while pursuing a college degree, which is why we want to relieve a little bit of financial stress for students. The Health & Wellness Scholarship will award someone who believes in living a healthy life and works hard to do so, even while attending school.

High school seniors, undergraduate students, and graduate students are eligible to apply if they are United States citizens or permanent legal residents and believe in living a healthy lifestyle. In your application, write about why you believe it is important to live a healthy life and how you maintain a healthy lifestyle for yourself.

Selection Criteria:
Ambition, Need, Boldest Bold.org Profile
Published May 29, 2022
Essay Topic

Why do you believe it’s important to live a healthy life? How do you maintain a healthy lifestyle?

400–600 words

Winning Application

Mayci Herbert
University of Alabama at BirminghamMinot, ND
I have had several hobbies and interests that have come and gone, but my passion for health and nutrition has persisted throughout my life. Chronic disease is rampant throughout my family, and it grieves me to see the hopelessness and powerlessness they feel about their circumstances. I want to educate, counsel, and empower people in nutrition and the lifestyle factors they do have control over. After seeing the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in my own life and the detrimental effects of poor lifestyle choices in my own family, I feel it is my life’s calling to counsel others to have the best quality of life possible, regardless of their circumstances. This background has set me on the path to becoming a Registered Dietician Nutritionist. I am currently pursuing my master’s in clinical nutrition to achieve this goal. I am a strong advocate for empowering people on an individual level. With this degree, I want to do just that—empower individuals, giving them the tools and resources they need to live vibrant, healthful lives. My passion for both nutrition science and psychology will be a harmonious combination in my professional endeavors in the field of nutrition. In addition, my own personal experiences with health and wellness will provide me with the patience, empathy, and compassion I will need to counsel others. In addition to seeing the great need for proper nutrition in my own immediate family, our Air Force career has given me insight into how vast this need is. Moving around more than most people do in their entire lives has exposed me to a wide breadth of people from various backgrounds. What I’ve learned is that most Americans abide by the Standard American Diet—a diet rich in highly processed, high fat, high sugar foods that is dismally low in fiber and vital nutrients that are essential to our health and well-being, resulting in a host of chronic illnesses and disease that are often preventable with proper nutrition. The sad reality is that these chronic illnesses that we often associate with the aging process (heart disease, arthritis, and even erectile dysfunction) are becoming more prevalent in our younger population. This need has inspired me to spend a large portion of my free time educating and counseling my peers, friends, and family in the same nutrition principles that I have applied to my own life. This counseling primarily manifests as personalized meal plans, based on the client’s food preferences and dietary restrictions, as well as directing them to the latest publications in nutrition research. Witnessing the physical and emotional changes in people I have helped firsthand has been an incredibly humbling and gratifying experience, which has only further affirmed my desire to pursue a career in nutrition. Western medicine is primarily focused on treating disease after the fact. I want to be an agent of change that encourages preventative medicine. If we can counsel, empower, and educate our communities before a diagnosis, we could save millions of lives and millions in healthcare costs. The value of nutrition education is grossly underappreciated and underutilized in treatment plans. By working with a team of healthcare professionals, I would like to see nutrition education play a bigger role in treating patients. Changing the paradigm starts with me, and I want to encourage patients to use food as medicine.

FAQ

When is the scholarship application deadline?

The application deadline is Sep 1, 2022. Winners will be announced on Oct 1, 2022.