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Let’s Eat Healthy Week: An Initiative to Combat Obesity

Let’s Eat Healthy Week: An Initiative to Combat Obesity. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY Robert Gibbs. Let’s Eat Healthy Week:. President Obama’s initiative to combat obesity Launch will occur on January 4-8, 2010

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Let’s Eat Healthy Week: An Initiative to Combat Obesity

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  1. Let’s Eat Healthy Week:An Initiative to Combat Obesity THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary PRESS BRIEFING BY PRESS SECRETARY Robert Gibbs

  2. Let’s Eat Healthy Week: • President Obama’s initiative to combat obesity • Launch will occur on January 4-8, 2010 • In conjunction with the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture

  3. What is obesity? Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater. BMI is calculated from a person's weight and height and provides a reasonable indicator of body fatness and weight categories that may lead to health problems. Source: Centers for Disease Control, Overweight and Obesity, http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/index.html

  4. Causes of obesity: What are some of the challenges? • We are overworked and stressed • We eat fast food and processed foods because it is quicker and easier to eat that way

  5. What can we do?Participate in Let’s Eat Healthy Week : • Develop a new relationship with food • Choose an Accountability Partner • Track your daily eating • Buy a “new” healthier food • Read food labels • Reduce consumption of fast/processed foods

  6. Develop a Healthy Mindset: “Ill-health of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!” Thomas Carlyle “A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” Spanish Proverb

  7. For More Information: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute BMI Calculator: http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm Centers for Disease Control: www.cdc.gov U.S. Department of Agriculture, My Pyramid Tracker: http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov/

  8. Any Questions?

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