It is cold in Chicago and it is hard to get motivated to exercise and get fit, but if the mayor of Newark, New Jersey can do it we can too. Mayor Cory Booker has vowed to lose 40 pounds by his birthday in April. This sounds like a good goal to follow.
After discovering he had got up to nearly 300 pounds during the Christmas season he is ready to make the change along with many others as we go into a new calendar year.
Obesity is a growing problem in America and it is good to see people like him and Michelle Obama stand up and create a stir.
Read the excerpt from his piece in “Hypocrisy,” written for the Huffington Post…
Michelle Obama asked me in 2010 to be an Honorary Co-Vice Chair of the Partnership for a Healthier America as part of her larger national campaign against obesity called Let’s Move! I proudly and readily accepted, and loudly began to preach of the grave ills of our nation’s obesity epidemic.
My city, which is exceptional in so many regards, is like many urban places in America when it comes to the obesity crisis. Childhood obesity rates are out of control and undermining our children’s health, self esteem, performance in school, and ability to someday be productive adults. It is shortening their lives, and making healthcare costs dramatically more burdensome to them and all of our society. So with my new First Lady-bestowed title, I brought my community together to begin working on the problem. There were many Newark leaders who were already ahead of me and had begun to make significant progress. These leaders eagerly joined with our broad coalition and we soon had much to demonstrate here in Newark – hospitals, schools, nonprofits, churches and others were all pitching in to get Newark “Moving”.
Read the full article at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cory-booker/hypocrisy_b_803962.html?ref=tw
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