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Berkeley is fatter than you think. And that’s not with a “ph.”
Two city council members aren’t feeling so slim either. So Darryl Moore and Laurie Capitelli decided to go public with their efforts at weight loss, and now they want the city of Berkeley to join them.
The council members both participated in a public “weigh-in” today to kick off their brainchild campaign “Be Fit Berkeley,” which runs until May 31. A friendly competition between the two members over who can lose the most weight will hopefully encourage Berkeley citizens to jump on board the healthy-living bandwagon.
The idea was proposed after the May release of the city’s Health Status Report.It seems that Berkeley either really isn’t as obsessed with our organic-vegan-tofu-granola diets as we thought, or the diets aren’t doing much for us. Thirty-one percent of Berkeley adults are considered overweight or obese.
Of course, organic-vegan-tofu-granola diets aren’t a homogeneous trend across Berkeley’s heterogeneous population–there has been an alarming increase in obesity among African-Americans, Latinos, and low-income individuals, according to the survey.
So the city council has adopted a more light-hearted mood to solve a less-light-hearted problem. It’s so light-hearted, there are dancing vegetables on the program’s home page.
On the site you can find out how to earn points and win prizes by losing weight and exercising. All participants receive free T-shirts, and it’s rumored on the proposal that some might say “Lose Your Belly with Capitelli!”
Now, not only have Moore and Capitelli gone public with their weight loss, but so have Council members Linda Maio, Gordon Wozniak and Kriss Worthington.
The Clog knows the only reason why you’d read to the end of this post is to find out what the weights are. So here you go:
* Moore, 317 lbs.
* Capitelli, 249 lbs.
* Maio, 170 lbs.
* Wozniak, 233 lbs.
* Worthington, 213 lbs.
Berkeley council in weight loss contest [The Oakland Tribune]
Recommendation [Berkeley City Council]
Be Fit Berkeley [Berkeley Health and Human Services]
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