Promoting Physical Activity With A Public Health Approach

Another doomed to fail suggestion.

"Nearly 50 percent of Americans are not active enough for optimal health and disease prevention. This staggering statistic served as a launching point for public health advocate Barbara E. Ainsworth, Ph.D., MPH, FACSM, who delivered a President's Lecture at the 55th American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Indianapolis...

Ainsworth believes the answer to increasing physical activity is coordinated, integrated and funded steps targeted to the general public. Effective awareness among the diverse U.S. population must be culturally and socially relevant, reach across socio-economic levels, and touch all ages, she says."

As if there is not already a whole mess of info on too fat out there.

And physical activity as an approach to manage weight is so inefficient that it will never be successful for the vast majority of people.

This is head in the sand policy-making at its worst.