Sweet beverage drinkers might have to pay a tax on soda. Children could spend more time in physical education class. Neighborhoods could have more sidewalks.It stops short of saying how it will be done, since it can't be done.
Health-care professionals see those as some of the key elements to move Tennesseans toward eating better, exercising more and getting the state off the list as the second most obese in the nation.
State health commissioner Susan Cooper and Gov. Phil Bredesen on Thursday unveiled a nutrition and physical activity plan that is supposed to guide the state in ways to reduce obesity and chronic disease over the next five years. More than 69 percent of adults and 39 percent of children are obese or overweight.
The strategy, dubbed Eat Well, Play More Tennessee, is spelled out in a 67-page report that targets changes in places where people live, work, learn, play and pray. But it stops short of saying how it will be done. A follow-up report is expected by the end of the year to outline actions needed to follow the road map.
The only way to win this war is to hold people accountable for their choice to be fat and make their kids fat.
Anything different from that is doomed to fail.
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