Showing posts with label lack of physical activity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lack of physical activity. Show all posts

Saturday, August 25, 2012

North Carolina Education Lottery and Obesity

   North Carolina, like many states with soaring obesity rates, has a statewide obesity prevention program.  It is called Eat Smart Move More NC.  I am a naive optimist, but I like to think that when a state has such an initiative, all its departments, agencies, forms of government - etc - will work together.  At the very least they would not work against each other.
   So how does the Lottery system play into this?  It's rather bizarre actually and of course, I would be the one to hear the commercial and scratch my head.  Here it goes.
   Full disclosure, I didn't hear the whole commercial.  I missed the beginning. It seems like the narrator was asking people to define what "LUCKY" meant to them.  I heard the last person say, "when I circle around the parking lot for ten minutes and then find a space up front, 'I feel lucky.'"  The narrator then summed up the other responses (the ones I missed).  He said, something like, "If you get the last cookie in the break room cookie jar, or find the prize in your french fries, or get to park close to the store - you are LUCKY."  People who are having this kind of good luck, should "buy a lottery ticket.'
  I was thinking, REALLY?! People who think cookies, french fries and limited physical activity are things to strive for - ought to spend their money on a good health insurance plan.
   Myself - I feel damn lucky that I do not NEED to park close to a building.  I am ever grateful to have full use of my body in order to walk a few steps.