THISCITYISGOINGONADIET.COM

So, who is with me? I heard Mayor Cornett talking about the new site this morning. I am going to join along!

Here are some refridgerator closing facts:

Oklahoma ranks 15th in diabetes deaths.


About 1.5 million Oklahoma adults are overweight and of those, 500,000 are obese.


Fifteen percent of teenagers are considered "severely overweight or obese" -- a 300 percent increase in the past 20 years. (300%!)

Only 37 percent of Oklahoma students are enrolled in physical education compared with almost 58 percent nationally.


Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity in Oklahoma has increased 131 percent.


In Tulsa County, almost 47 percent of third- through fifth-grade students had a body mass index greater than the 85 percentile, making them at risk for becoming overweight.


Hospital costs attributed to child obesity quadrupled from 1980 to the late 1990s. All these statistics, the mayor believes, have consequences. Sedentary lifestyles, coupled with being overweight or obesen are linked to heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, liver disease, certain cancers, asthma, sleep apnea and orthopedic challenges.

(http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?subjectID=61&articleID=20080105_7_G6_hHowT61653)


Check out the new site! JOIN!


http://www.thiscityisgoingonadiet.com/Default.aspx
This site is great, too:

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/maps/