Innovation may tip scale to aid health

 
By Brian Sargent
Published: April 9, 2008

Talking about obesity is difficult, so encouraging Oklahoma City 's residents to lose weight required an innovative approach, Mayor Mick Cornett said Tuesday.

"If we had another health issue, we could talk about it,” Cornett said during a luncheon lecture. "I felt like we had to break through the barrier of ‘we can't talk about it.'”

Last fall, Cornett led an effort to create a Web site — titled "This ...


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