Kansans and Friends In Weight Loss

Those folks who wonder why I am so stuck in my ways to keep the name I have for my blog maybe this will get you to see why I am so tenacious in my mission. You see my state is still fat.

In two related articles from The Lawrence Journal World and The Wichita Eagle’s Kansas.com this week both publications have the new results of the state obesity ranking. We are at the 27th mark with a 23.4 percent rate for adult obesity and 24th at a rate of 14 percent for overweight youth’s. Here in Topeka we have so many eating joints you can’t get away from them.

According to the Wichita Eagle’s article James Early, a Wichita prevention and wellness expert and medical director of Solutions for Life says state and local efforts are underway. Well let’s see here in my town we don’t need The Rib Crib,Texas Roadhouse, and Longhorn Steakhouse and Coyote Canyon in one vicinity. I am serious if you go down the Wanamaker corridor here in my town you will get smacked in the face with the gluttony that is our state capital’s eating habits.

It seems there  are some initiatives at Lawrence’s Haskell University underway with the “Healthier Haskell” a 10 month program that will feature monthly monthly and daily activities on fitness, nutrition and wellness. The focal point of the initiative will be a walking program where the goal is to walk 24,901 miles.Lori Tapahonso executive assistant and public information officer thinks this goal can be reached if 250 people walk 10 miles a month for 10 months.

Sonja Armbruster of the Sedgwick County Health Department says that businesses that have promoted health,nutrition and stress reduction have seen their health costs go down. By the way I want to mention I had a chance to work with Sonja last semester when our program planning and evaluation class was asked to participate in a health day at the capital. She was great to work with as she made sure our group had everything we needed in the way of equipment and information so we looked like professionals.

So there you have it folks this is why I do what I do and why I have built the mini empire I have on the internet targeted towards Kansas. I am brave enough to stand up and point out our weakness with food and unhealthy lifestyle. I was thinking as I was writing this that I am sure to get blasted by folks who just might come across this who live in my state but I don’t care. At this rate Kansas parents will survive their children instead of their children surviving them. It will knock the scales in the other direction in the state mortality rates. That is not the way things are supposed to be.

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