PRINTER'S NO. 14
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
8
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY BULLOCK, DEAN, YOUNGBLOOD, DiGIROLAMO, KINSEY,
HENNESSEY, MILLARD, CALTAGIRONE, WATSON, READSHAW, MURT,
CONKLIN, D. COSTA, DONATUCCI, WARD, SCHLOSSBERG, BIZZARRO,
EVERETT, V. BROWN, GILLEN, THOMAS, M. QUINN AND FREEMAN,
JANUARY 23, 2017
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JANUARY 23, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the week of January 15 through 21, 2017, as "Healthy
Weight Week" and recognizing Thursday, January 19, 2017, as
"Women's Healthy Weight Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, The 22nd annual "Healthy Weight Week" celebrates
healthy diet-free living habits that last a lifetime and that
prevent eating-related and weight-related problems; and
WHEREAS, During "Healthy Weight Week," people 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, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
released studies suggesting that the real weight epidemic in
this country is about body dissatisfaction and the unhealthy
methods employed to try to change bodies into what is often
completely unrealistic for an individual; and
WHEREAS, Extensive research at the National Center for Health
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Statistics, led by senior statistician Kathleen Flegal and
published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in
2005 and again in January 2013, shows that overweight
individuals tend to live the longest; and
WHEREAS, These findings include individuals who fall in the
broad range of body mass indexes (BMI) from 22 to 40, which is
the BMI range for the majority of Americans; and
WHEREAS, "Healthy Weight Week" promotes women's healthy
weight awards in an effort to change weight messaging by
encouraging advertisers and television producers to portray
healthy, active women in a wider range of sizes; and
WHEREAS, In emphasizing the value of supporting size
diversity, this message undercuts the thinness ideal, which
research has shown causes a great deal of pain and unhealthy
behaviors in women, including eating disorders and body image
disturbance; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
week of January 15 through 21, 2017, as "Healthy Weight Week"
and recognize Thursday, January 19, 2017, as "Women's Healthy
Weight Day" in Pennsylvania.
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