SALISBURY — The Maryland branch of a national health and wellness campaign met with the Salisbury City Council last week to discuss a partnership with the aim of lowering obesity rates in the community.
The Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Cities and Towns Campaign, which in this state is a partnership between the Institute for Public Health Innovation and the Maryland Municipal League, met with the council on Nov. 18 and asked Salisbury to join four other Maryland towns which have signed on.
“You, as local government leaders, have a role to play to assure that these obesity rates do not continue to rise,” said Marissa Jones, a representative for HEAL.
Obesity rates in the nation and statewide have been seeing a steady and alarming rise over the past few decades. In youth, especially, rates have spiked.
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4 comments:
Just another State employee trying to justify why she's getting paid.
You have got to be kidding me. When is it Governments responsibility to dictate what someone looks like? 9:42am is target on!!! "Just another State employee trying to justify why she's getting paid.
I see the "Health Police" coming for you in Salisbury's future.
yeah I see all those poor staving obese food stamp mothers waiting for their children at the bus stop in front of pemberton apartments every day.
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