State Wants To Improve Health Of Citizens
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Arkansas is looking for private donations a
grants to fund a statewide health improvement plan. State officials
unveiled the plan yesterday. Its goals to accomplish before 2006
include a public-awareness campaign, a study of the effect of diet
and exercise on students` body-mass indexes and promoting community
gardens. The plan was developed in response to the Healthy Arkansas
initiative announced in May by Governor Mike Huckabee. That
initiative set goals of reducing Arkansans` obesity, tobacco use
and physical inactivity within two years.
