Well the topic is the candy bowl, actually.
I'd say a fitness challenge that encourages steps is already encouraging health in the wrong way,
What? How is that part controversial?
Likely few people are invested in taking the challenge that seriously, and would rather just have the candy.
Our comapny has been supporting this for a while now. People are pretty invested. They take circuitous routes in the office, saying, “gotta get my steps.” The company gave out pedometers for a couple of years when they first started promoting it.
But if you want to have a real fitness challenge, then take away the candy bowls permanently, and encourage something like a daily stretch and more reasonable number of steps per day.
What’s more reasonable? 10,000 steps is about 2.2 miles (3.5km). Is that too much? Or too little?