Kansas health department encourages diet, excercise

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, also known as KDHE, conducted a health survey that indicates obesity in Kansas adults has doubled since 1992.

Jason Eberhart-Phillips, MD, MPH, State Health Officer and Director of the Division of Health at KDHE, suggests that one contributor to obesity is today’s tough economic times.

“As public health funding becomes more limited because of the economic crisis, this will only serve to make the challenge of confronting obesity more difficult. At the same time, know that not confronting the problem will drive up our state’s health care costs and weaken the economy further,” Eberhart-Phillips said.

Programs such as Healthy Kansas and the newer Kansas Coordinated School Health Program aim to reshape obesity-promoting environments and to enable Kansans to make healthy choices, Eberhart-Phillips said.

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