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"Let's Go For a Million Kilos" Mexico's National Campaign to Lose Weight. A Success
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by patgarcia | September 28, 2008 at 04:10 pm
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First stage of this campaign has been a success! I joined it, enjoyed it and have a couple of pounds off. The goal has been reached and surpassed. I'm part of these good statistics.
Baja California Sur lost 5,814 kilos, our cities are small so we don't have that many inhabitants, but we do have obesity, almost 10,000 persons registered to the program which consisted of following a healthy 1500 calorie diet that included easy to make Mexican recipes, food we are used to eating like frijoles, nopales, (beans and cactus).Everyday walks of a least half an hour. This is what I loved the most! Walking in the morning by the seashore, our beautiful Malecon where I could see a group of older people "Golden age" persons exercising everyday at 7 am as part of a similar government program, what I think is really great is that you can go to a stand where your blood pressure is checked to monitor it as you walk or run. Having such wonderful place to exercise and good free programs we should be in top shape, I personally think the weight loss for Baja California is too low if almost a 10,000 registered and more than 5000 kilos were lost, which means the average loss was around 1/2 kilo per person. We can do better than that!
The project is one of several new efforts to fight obesity in Mexico, which is on track to catch up with the United States within a decade as one of the world's fattest countries, according to the Mexican government. Nearly half of Mexico's 110 million people are overweight, and the number of fat children has climbed 8 percent a year over the last decade.
Reporte General de Kilos Perdidos acumulados
Total de kilos perdidos acumulados: 1'464,577
Fecha: 19/09/2008 11:00Total de Personas Registradas: 1'955,709
No. Estado Personas Registradas IMSS Kilos Acumulados IMSS 1 AGUASCALIENTES 20,814 11,017 2 BAJA CALIFORNIA 52,718 27,769 3 BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR 9,955 5,814 4 CAMPECHE 7,382 4,651 5 CHIAPAS 21,275 7,892 6 CHIHUAHUA 80,735 56,532 7 COAHUILA DE ZARAGOZA 81,181 44,845 8 COLIMA 10,680 4,259 9 DISTRITO FEDERAL 187,084 153,930 10 DURANGO 27,444 27,813 11 GUANAJUATO 64,110 56,556 12 GUERRERO 21,121 22,609 13 HIDALGO 17,544 22,814 14 JALISCO 135,346 152,743 15 MÉXICO 175,803 127,746 16 MICHOACÁN DE OCAMPO 44,754 31,801 17 MORELOS 20,452 16,857 18 NAYARIT 10,085 5,412 19 NUEVO LEÓN 128,846 84,690 20 OAXACA 15,866 8,177 21 PUEBLA 32,319 27,582 22 QUERÉTARO ARTEAGA 28,125 17,122 23 QUINTANA ROO 14,806 4,095 24 SAN LUIS POTOSÍ 25,674 15,817 25 SINALOA 60,590 43,714 26 SONORA 43,120 24,457 27 TABASCO 12,595 21,976 28 TAMAULIPAS 76,754 57,090 29 TLAXCALA 14,325 12,292 30 VERACRUZ DE IGNACIO DE LA LL 63,429 36,833 31 YUCATÁN 35,335 13,351 32 ZACATECAS 13,503 6,423 99 TOTAL 1,553,770 1,154,681.559
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at 17:41 on September 28th, 2008
patgarcia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 18:43 on September 28th, 2008
patgarcia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 20:28 on September 28th, 2008
patgarcia, great idea and kudos for taking part.
at 20:51 on September 28th, 2008
patgarcia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 23:35 on September 28th, 2008
patgarcia, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I like this campaign, Well it will help reduce health care cost and increase longevity. Maybe even help the Sociological State of mind. Compared to North American, most Japanese would be considered anorexic, yet they are rather fit and have the longest life expectancy in the World today, they do eat well and very healthy.
at 05:52 on September 30th, 2008
Thank you Rhonda!
at 05:53 on September 30th, 2008
panzerlawyer,
Thanks for the flag!
at 05:55 on September 30th, 2008
Rachel Nixon
Thanks! It is a great idea. I enjoyed participating and will continue in the next stage.
at 05:58 on September 30th, 2008
Thank you very much
at 18:24 on September 30th, 2008
Thank you Paschen, I appreciate your flag and great comment, one of the objectives is indeed to reduce health care cost, but it will bring many additional benefits as you mention. Our diet was healthier before but it has deteriorated and gone to excessive eating. I love Japanese food but I love to eat Mexican style.......... tacos at night!