Cnycentral : declared in Report finds obesity rate in CNY higher than state average; How can it be improved?

A new report from the New York State Health Department finds more and more children are overweight in Central New York. Eight school districts in Onondaga County are above the state's average obesity rate, but with the right tools that number can change. More than 12,000 children in CNY school districts are considered obese; that's about 19.6 percent of students. If you are viewing this article on the mobile app, click here to see obesity rates by school district. Trish Law, founder of Method 360 Fitness in East Syracuse - says the answer starts with mom and dad.

State plans' study finds higher cost for obesity

Similarly the study found that employees' health expenses tended to fall along with the frequency with which employees reported that they exercise. This year, the plans' premiums rose an average of just 2 percent for public school employees and 3 percent for state employees. The report was prepared for the State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board, which governs the health plans. The study also examined smoking rates, finding that less than 10 percent of the respondents reported being smokers. The plans cover about 45,000 public school employees and about 26,000 state employees, in addition to retirees and the spouses and dependents of retirees and employees.


The study found the parental effect on BMI was lowest for the thinnest children and highest for the most obese children. In the thinnest children, BMI was 10 percent due to their mother and 10 percent due to their father, but for obese children, BMI was closer to 30 percent due to each parent. "This shows that the children of obese parents are much more likely to be obese themselves when they grow up -- the parental effect is more than double for the most obese children what it is for the thinnest children," Dolton said. That number rises to 55 to 60 percent for the most obese children. The pattern in BMI transmission was consistent among the countries regardless of economic development, industrialization or economy.



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