Health and Lifestyles in Our Community.

Do we as a community have a responsibility to encourage a healthy lifestyle among our citizens? A crisis is brewing in Anchorage and the rest of our country, resulting from obesity and inactivity. Please refer to a couple of the recent media articles below:

Thousands eat selves to grave. Poor diet and physical inactivity are closing in on tobacco use as the leading preventable causes if death in the United States, primarily because of a dramatic rise in obesity, according to a new scientific report. Anchorage Dialy News, March 10, 2004.

Obesity, inactivity nearly as deadly as tobacco in U.S., study finds. Anchorage Daily News, March 9, 2004.

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	Thousands eat selves to grave. Poor diet and physical inactivity are closing in on tobacco use as the leading preventable causes if death in the United States, primarily because of a dramatic rise in obesity, according to a new scientific report. Anchorage Dialy News, March 10, 2004.
	Obesity, inactivity nearly as deadly as tobacco in U.S., study finds. Anchorage Daily News, March 9, 2004.