Community Walking Project Enters Final Phase «Team Members Log Twenty - One Million Steps» In the ten weeks since they
began, the ninety - seven participants taking part in the «A Better Me: Fit, Healthy and Happy» fitness program sponsored by the Oneida County Health Department have cumulatively walked the equivalent of 39 - hundred miles while learning about the benefits of proper nutrition and the
prevention of diabetes and
obesity, according to Dr. Gayle Jones, Oneida County Director of Health.
The findings are now helping us to trial new nutritional interventions before and during pregnancy to reduce the baby's risk of
obesity in childhood and later life, and strengthen the view that effective
prevention of childhood
obesity has to
begin before the baby is born.