Bill Text: NY J00490 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim March 2021, as Nutrition Month in the State of New York

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-03-16 - ADOPTED [J00490 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-J00490-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution No. 490

BY: Senator RIVERA

        LEGISLATIVE      RESOLUTION  memorializing  Governor
        Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim March 2021, as Nutrition
        Month in the State of New York

  WHEREAS, Nutrition month was  created  to  focus  attention  on  the
importance  of making informed food choices and develop sound eating and
physical activity habits; and

  WHEREAS, The National Nutrition Month  2021  theme  is  "Personalize
Your Plate"; and

  WHEREAS, Nearly one in five children are diagnosed as obese annually
at  or  before  they  reach two years of age according to the Center for
Disease Control and it is at that stage of life that a child is learning
the type of food and how much food to consume; and

  WHEREAS, Childhood obesity is a national epidemic  that  has  almost
tripled since the 1980s in the United States; and

  WHEREAS,  Obesity accounts for approximately 374,239 deaths per year
and the annual cost to society for obesity is an estimated $327  billion
according to the American Diabetes Association; and

  WHEREAS,  The  New York University Child Study Center has determined
that if a parent is obese there is a fifty percent chance that the child
will be obese, and if both parents are obese, then there  is  an  eighty
percent chance that the child will be obese; and

  WHEREAS,  Early  intervention  can  help  detect  the magnitude of a
child's obesity and minimize the occurrence of diseases such as Type  II
Diabetes  which  increase  the risk of heart disease, eye complications,
and kidney conditions; and

  WHEREAS, The Academy of Nutrition and  Dietetics  strives  to  fight
childhood  obesity  by  providing  parents  with  information  regarding
healthier lifestyles for their children, support to  ensure  that  their
children  are  receiving the proper nutrients, ensuring that schools are
providing students with healthy foods, and helping children  partake  in
regular physical activity; and

  WHEREAS,  The  New  York  State  Department  of  Health launched the
Activ8kids program in 2005 to help fight childhood obesity  and  support
healthy  lifestyles  among  children,  in which children are involved in
daily regimens of physical exercise and healthy  food  choices  to  help
improve their health; and

  WHEREAS, The month of March is National Nutrition Month and consists
of  a  campaign  that  focuses on the importance of helping children and
teens make healthy food choices  and  promote  physical  activity;  now,
therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize  Governor  Andrew  M.  Cuomo  to  proclaim  March  2021,  as

Nutrition  Month  in  the  State  of  New  York, in conjunction with the
observance of National Nutrition Month; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the  State  of
New York.