New obesity-prevention grants
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The state “Department of Health”:http://www.health.state.ny.us/press/releases/2007/2007-08-01_childhood_obesity_grant.htm has awarded $4 million to establish three Centers for Best Practices to Prevent and Reduce Childhood Obesity in New York.
The organizations will each receive up to $266,000 per year for five years to address childhood obesity by creating programs that promote optimal growth, development, and lifestyle habits during pregnancy, infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
The centers are:
The Research Foundation of the State University of New York at Stony Brook which will locate its Center for Best Practices at SUNY Stony Brook, where it will develop training strategies for health-care providers in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
The Foundation for Healthy Living, with offices in Latham and Buffalo, will create obesity education program for young children.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City will integrate and coordinate community, school and clinical efforts to prevent childhood obesity in school-age children in New York City.
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That’s good news. Now obese people will have the motivation they need to participate in those programs because they’re free and considering that a lot of other people will also want to avail this benefit..
Yeah! Then more people can get fatter when they gain all the weight lost back, and then some. (You do know about the 98% failure rate, right?) And, ruin their hearts to boot! More money for the cardiologists!
Strange benefit—one that wastes public funds, promotes hatred and kills people. Way to go!
I think it’s better than to watch those people suffer the effects of obesity if their chance of getting rid of it is available.
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