Advocacy Project: Healthy People/THOMAS

1) Healthy People 2010

• Goal: Promote Health and Reduce Chronic Disease Associated With Diet and Weight
• Objective 19-2: Reduce the proportion of adults who are obese.
• The target for this goal was 15% while the current baseline was 23%. According to the progress quotient chart, we are at -88% moved away from target.

2) Progress, disparities, opportunities and challenges, and emerging issues 

• Instead of reducing the proportion of adults who are obese, the baseline actually increased from 23% to 30%. Increasing obesity in adults was more pronounced for the black non-Hispanic population and the white non-Hispanic population than for the Mexican American population.
• Disparity in adult obesity between the Mexican American and the white non-Hispanic populations declined. 
• National action and community involvement are two very important factors that can help to decrease the obesity epidemic. 
• New pharmaceuticals and surgical procedures are being widely used to try to reverse the trend. In the long run, prevention rather than treatment is the best option. 

3) THOMAS

H.R. 5738

Title: School Eats Act

Sponsor: Rep Rahall, Nick J., II  [WV-3](Introduced 7/14/2010) Cosponsors (5)

Latest Major Action: 10/13/2010 Referred to House subcommittee. 

Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. 

Recommendation: Vote yes for H.R. 5738

My Political Representative: Congressman