N.C. officials unveil new plan to fight obesity
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
By Jimmy Ryals
The Daily Reflector
State health officials have unveiled a new plan for attacking obesity.
The five-year plan, Eat Smart Move More North Carolina, advocates measures already under way in Pitt County, said Dr. Kathryn Kolasa, a dietician and professor of family medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Kolasa served on a committee that designed the statewide plan, which officials unveiled at an obesity conference Tuesday at N.C. State University.
"It has a lot of what we’ve been doing, but it actually sets some measurable benchmarks, and we’ve not had those," Kolasa said.
The plan calls for holding the state’s adult obesity rate steady over the next six years, among other measures.
Conference participants saw a video detailing Pitt County anti-obesity measures on Tuesday, Kolasa said. The film, produced by the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, profiled the work of Dr. David Collier, pediatrician and co-director of East Carolina University’s Pediatric Healthy Weight and Treatment Center.
The video also featured the Pitt County Memorial Hospital Pediatric Healthy Weight Case Management Program and other efforts.
"We were being held up as a model for the rest of the state," Kolasa said. (more…)
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