The Cayuga County Health Department is pleased to announce the recent granting of a new subsidy called making healthy places to live, work and play. The grant is funded by the New York State Department of Health offices of chronic disease and nutrition. The Cayuga County Health Department will be together with the Cayuga community health network to the objectives of this grant.
According to the New York State Department of Health, "obesity and overweight are currently the second most important preventable cause of death in the United States and may soon overtake tobacco as the leading cause of death. Failed to win the fight against obesity means premature death and disability for an increasingly larger segment of New York residents. Without strong action to reverse the obesity epidemic, for the first time in our history can children get a shorter lifespan than their parents. "
More importantly, obesity and diabetes not only reduce quality of life and health on an individual basis, but consume large amounts of public budgets in medical costs for treatment. Investing in prevention services and changes in the environment that support health will eventually prove to be profitable in real dollars.
• Health care costs for the treatment of obesity-related diseases and conditions cost the United States an estimated $ 150 billion and the State of New York more than $ 7.6 billion per year.
• The percentage of the New York state adults who are overweight or obese increased from 42 percent in 1997 to 60 percent in 2008.
• Obesity among children and adolescents has tripled in the past three decades. Currently, a third of New York's children are obese or overweight.
Local, in Cayuga County, the most recent statistics tell us county adults 62 percent overweight and obesity, with only 38% in the range of a healthy weight. Cayuga County residents have a very high rate of coronary heart disease — 75.7 percent, compared with the New York State rate of 61.2%.
The Ministry of health recognizes that, "obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the State of New York and across the nation. While many epidemics reports with a pill or a vaccine, obesity requires changes in behavior, as well as access to affordable, nutritious foods and opportunities for physical activity in the places where people live, learn, eating, shopping, work and play. "
The Cayuga County Health Department will work to give people the access to fresh fruit and vegetables by working to community gardens in neighborhoods, including complexes with a low income housing and senior centres; establishing a mobile market; and the promotion of current downtown Auburn farmers market. We will also work on improving our current parks and footpaths and promoting downtown historic walking tours, while taking into account the safety of all users of these trails, sidewalks and streets.
The Department has a long history of working with a wide variety of community partners from the private and the public sector. It is the networks of our community partners who continue the forward momentum to our effort to Cayuga County a healthier environment to live, work and play.
We would like to thank our many community partners representing the years in a number of successful healthy lifestyle grants cooperated with us and their support for this new initiative.
Our partners include:
• Cayuga County Community Health Network
• Cornell Cooperative Extension
• Cayuga County Fitness Council
• Auburn enlarged City School District
• Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES
• Cayuga elementary and A.J. Smith elementary
• Cato Meridian Central School District
• Cayuga County Food Providers Network
• Place of Cayuga and the Cayuga recreation Trail
• Auburn farmers market Board
• City of Auburn, Planning and economic development
• County Planning and Engineering
• Cayuga Community College
• Cayuga/Seneca Community action Agency-head start and early head start
• Cayuga County Department of parks and trails
• Auburn Housing Authority
• Cayuga County Chamber of Commerce
• Reva Rollerdrome
• Ken and Audrey Mochel
• The Auburn YMCA
• Girl Scouts of NYPenn pathways
• TheRun4Life .org
• Champions for life
• Auburn Memorial Hospital
• Glenda Neff
• Auburn Downtown Business Improvement District
• Dickman Farms greenhouses & Garden Center
Remember, Cayuga County: get up, get active, be healthy!
Elane Daly is Director of health and human services for Cayuga County. They can be reached at cchealth@dfa.state.ny.us or 253-1560
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