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one public health problem in our country. A third of our population is obese, and another third is overweight, for a total of some 66-percent of us who are either overweight or obese. And it’s not just about how many calories we eat, it’s about what type of calories we eat, and it’s very much about how little we move our bodies. We are a nation of sedentary people. Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broadened its definition of physical activity to include lifestyle activities like walking and gardening, most Americans still don’t meet minimum exercise recommendations. That is, 30 minutes of moderate intensity activity on most, if not all days of the week. Only about 25-percent of adults report meeting the recommended activity guidelines. Health care professionals across the
country have been hard at work over the past decade-plus trying to find the right message to educate and encourage people to change their lifestyle habits on food and activity levels. One of the newest and simplest concepts
is some variation of what’s called 5210. It stands for 5 fruits and vegetables a day, no more than 2 hours of recreational screen time, 1 hour of physical activity - half of it cardiovascular - and 0 sugary drinks. Simple concept, easy to implement, and effective say supporters. The greater Portland, Maine, area has
adopted the 5210 concept and more recently so has the city of Tacoma, Washington. Spokane’s Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS) in conjunction with Step UP Spokane, a community effort to encourage better health, will roll out a version of 5210 in the Inland Northwest early this year. These groups will add an 8 to the formula for
8 hours of sleep. Lack of sleep has a direct correlation to obesity. Spokane’s 85210 is really a call to action with a message to move on. It’s easy to understand and can be done without measurements, in contrast to calorie counting or body mass index (BMI). It gives people five simple things they can do for better health. The message can easily be adapted and adopted in health care clinics, hospitals, schools, community centers and the like. Emily Fleury, Director of the Health
Training Network and Community Wellness at INHS, likes the concept. “It’s a call to action in a way that’s easy and understandable,” she says. “I’m a mom, and I think about ‘can I go home and do this?’” 5210 is a concept that health professionals from public health, hospitals, government and private sector have been working on since October of 2011. It’s an effort to link primary care, community, public health and others together to fight the obesity epidemic with an emphasis on children’s health care. Fleury attended a workshop in Tacoma recently on 5210 and is excited for INHS to bring the concept to Spokane “I feel it would drastically help this community. The idea is that you don’t have to change every single thing in your life, but these are five things you can do that will make a lasting change in your health.” Drastically may be an understatement.
Consider each 85210 point: 8 hours of sleep. That was slightly under
the average 50 years ago when Americans got 8 ½ hours a sleep a night and our obesity rate was about 12 percent. Today we are averaging 6 ½ hours of sleep and our obesity rate is more than 30 percent. Blame hormones. Studies show when we
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