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Volume 7, Issue 7 (Suppl) J Obes Weight Loss Ther, an open access journal
ISSN:2165-7904 Obesity & Fitness Expo 2017
November 13-15, 2017
November 13-15, 2017 | Atlanta, USA 17th World Fitness Expo
16th International Conference and Exhibition on
Obesity & Weight Management
&
Southern women’s health initiative: Past, present and future
Joe Malone
Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Women’s life expectancies throughout the south have been declining since 1983. In 2009 for example, the women in 58% of
Tennessee counties lived shorter lives than previously. Additionally, the southeast is known as the stroke belt of the U.S. after
enduring for generations’ prevalence rates on average at least 10% higher than the rest of the country. This is thought to be linked
to past girls and young women’s malnutrition as far back as the Civil War and following which may have precipitated the related
ensuing famine conditions. The participants in this program will take what they have learned home to their sisters, moms, aunts and
grandmas and change the existing life expectancy trajectory and stroke risk in a positive direction through family education. Experts
in the health care field have predicted that if present trends continue, over 2/3rd s of today’s American college-age women will be obese
by the time they are in their 40s. Research also shows that the time period from age 18-29 and especially for college students is the
time of greatest percentage of body fat gained over their entire lifetimes. We will instead empower them with more self-confidence
and get our college women on a healthy pathway that will last them a lifetime and avoid this disastrous societal outcome. This
improved fitness and overall wellness of our young mothers-to-be will improve offspring health. The average age of giving birth for
the first time is 25.1, which is not that far off for most of our college grads. Fetal programming, the biological epigenetic mechanism
by which the baby’s and eventually adult offspring’s health is affected over their entire lifetime by conditions in the womb has been
discovered only recently by science. This profound insight will finally give us an effective and comparatively economic strategy for
controlling chronic disease in future generations.
J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2017, 7:7 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-55