PRINTER'S NO. 3042
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
644
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY BULLOCK, BIZZARRO, KORTZ, MILLARD, LONGIETTI,
FREEMAN, HENNESSEY, SCHLOSSBERG, KINSEY, DiGIROLAMO, RYAN,
MURT, BURNS, YOUNGBLOOD, CIRESI, READSHAW AND HILL-EVANS,
DECEMBER 17, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, DECEMBER 17, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Designating the week of January 19 through 25, 2020, as "Healthy
Weight Week" and designating January 23, 2020, as "Women's
Healthy Weight Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, The 25th annual "Healthy Weight Week" celebrates
healthy diet-free living habits that last a lifetime and prevent
eating-related and weight-related problems; and
WHEREAS, During "Healthy Weight Week," individuals are
encouraged to improve eating and exercise habits in lasting ways
and normalize their lives by healthy eating without dieting,
living actively and feeling good about themselves and others;
and
WHEREAS, Body dissatisfaction and the unhealthy methods
employed to try to change an individual's body into what is
often completely unrealistic are issues that deserve as much
attention as the rise of obesity in this country; and
WHEREAS, Led by senior statistician Katherine Flegal and
published in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
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