Thursday, November 17, 2005

Yearning for an "Obesity Coordinator" in the Jewish Journal

Writing in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, Brian Albert and Tanya Bowers warn us that
Obesity is the fastest growing health threat in this country . . .
The solution?
. . . we are proposing the creation of a joint county, city (and, if possible, LAUSD) obesity coordinator. The office would be modeled on the city’s AIDS coordinator’s office created by Mayor Tom Bradley, but would include the county to take advantage of its public health and health care resources and the LAUSD as one of the country’s largest educational institutions, while also leveraging the bully pulpit available to the mayor.
The Jewish angle?
We believe that the Jewish community has a role to play in the campaign to appoint an obesity coordinator and to win the battle against obesity. Generating the political will to create an empowered obesity coordinator will require pressure from many communities, including our own.
I have two words to say in response to this: shmaltz herring.

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