In addition, pedometers have been used successfully as part of the FOOD DUDES program to increase children’s exercise steps by 1500 per day. Pedometers were gathered each week using the Collection Boxes, the number of steps was recorded for each child, pedometers were reset to zero, and then they were returned to children in Collection Box. If children failed to turn in their pedometers, they were scored as having zero EXERCISE steps for that week.