by MBJ Staff Published: December 4,2012
Tags: adolescence, adolescent, children, eating, exercise, fat, food, health, health care, nutrition, obesity, public health
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s obesity rate in high school students (grades 9-12) has dropped by 12.7 percent, knocking the state’s teens out of the number one spot down to number five in obesity nationwide. Mississippi’s 2011 Youth Risk Behavioral Survey found the rate of obesity among Mississippi high school students to be 16.5 percent, down [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 18,2012
Tags: blood pressure, Cancer, diabetes, eat, eating, exercise, fat, food, health, health care, heart disease, hypertension, medical, medicine, obese, obesity, overweight, public health, study
NEW YORK — A group campaigning against obesity predicts that by 2030 more than half the people in 39 states will be obese — not merely overweight, but obese. Mississippi is expected to retain its crown as the fattest state in the nation for at least two more decades. The report predicts 67 percent of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 20,2012
Tags: county, education, exercise, fitness, health, health care, program, public health, sports, Sports Medicine, wellness
RANKIN COUNTY — A new exercise and education program coordinated by the American College of Sports Medicine is starting up in Rankin County. The Clarion-Ledger reports Mississippi is the first state in the Exercise is Medicine Network, which strives to make exercise a standard part of disease prevention and treatment. The network’s adviser, Phil Trotter, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 10,2012
Tags: alderman, athletics, board of aldermen, board of mayor, borrow, city, community development, exercise, fitness, loan, mayor, municipal government, municipality, outdoors, referendum, sporting event, sports, sports complex, tourism, tourist, visitor, vote, voter, Voting
VICKSBURG — Mayor Paul Winfield has resurrected his plan for a sports complex and wants to put it before the voters on the June 2013 ballot. The Vicksburg Post reports in a meeting last week on the budget for fiscal year 2012-13 fiscal year budget Winfield said he would introduce the issue to the three-member [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 12,2012
Tags: aquatic center, athletes, athletics, bidders, bidding, bids, builders, building, community development, construction, constructors, diving, exercise, health, health care, sports, swimmers, swimming, swimming pool
TUPELO — The city of Tupelo has issued a call for bids on the estimated $11.3 million indoor aquatic center. Companies have until May 1 to submit proposals. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports construction could start by July if the city can pick a general contractor this spring. Construction is expected to take 14 [...] [...]
MADISON — Work will begin in October on athletic fields and a sports training facility, the first phase of The Esplanade, a multi-million-dollar health and wellness complex on 110 acres owned by St. Dominic Hospital in Madison County. Lester Diamond, executive vice president for operations for St. Dominic, tells The Clarion-Ledger the public-private partnership is [...] [...]
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