Indiana state health officials today released a new broad plan for helping Hoosiers eat healthier and exercise more, with an eye towards slimming down the state."Despite"?
Despite the launch of the InShape Indiana initiative six years ago, obesity remains a significant problem here, with 29 percent of all teens and 65 percent of all adults counting as overweight or obese.
Because.
Here is a listing of the insanity:
The plan released this morning, which aims to make the healthy choices easier, includes a wide range of goals, from encouraging people to drink less sugary sodas to urging more women to breastfeed their babies longer...Not in a million years.
The plan sets out the following goals for the state to reach by 2020:
> Increase the percentage of healthy weight adults from 35 to 38 percent and decrease the percent of obese adults from 30 to 25 percent. Increase the percent of high school students of a healthy weight from 71 to 76 percent and decrease the percent of obese students from 13 to 10 percent.
> Increase the percent of adults who do the recommended amount of daily physical activity from 64 to 68 percent and the percent of high school students who do daily exercise from 41 to 55 percent.
> Increase the percent of adults who eat the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables daily from 21 to 24 percent and the percent of high school students from 16 to 21 percent.
> Increase the percentage of mothers who breastfeed their babies from 71 to 75 percent. Increase the percent of mothers who do so exclusively from 29 to 40 percent at three months, from 38 to 50 percent at six months, and 17 to 25 percent at one year.
> Decrease the percent of adults who drink one or more sugary beverage a day from 69 to 59 percent and the percent of high school students who drink soda at least once a day from 30 to 22 percent.
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