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COUNCIL RECESSED TO THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING AT 7:33 P.M. COUNCIL RECONVENED AT 7:34 P.M. WITH SAME MEMBERS PRESENT; COUNCILMEMBER CHRISTY LEFT THE MEETING AT 7:38 P.M. WORK STUDY SESSION WS.A Santa Ana Health and Fitness Task Force — Parks, Recreation & Community Services This presentation was made by Gerardo Mouet, Executive Director, Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency, Kristen Thompson, Executive Director, Community Services of the YMCA of Orange County, and Dean Roberta Rikli, College of Health & Human Development, California State University, Fullerton. Highlights of this presentation are as follows: • The level of physical activity and the food choices people make has created a public health crisis in our community ■ Nearly 100 million Americans or 65% of the population are overweight or obese ■ Since 1980, the total number of overweight and obese Americans has doubled • Health care cost 37% more for obese people • In the last decade there was a 50% increase in diabetes ■ Overweight children are more likely to become overweight adults and face a series of life threatening conditions ■ Obesity rates are at an epidemic level ■ This condition is responsible for at least 400,000 preventable deaths each year, second only to tobacco use ■ 19% of Caucasians and 38% of Latinos report having no time for physical activity ■ In the state, 25.5% of children are overweight; in Santa Ana, that rate is 36.1 % and 42.7% are considered unfit • Only 11% of Santa Ana's school age children passed the state's fitness test ■ In the fall of 2003, Santa Ana was one of 25 cities nationwide that received a $200,000 grant and technical assistance from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help make cities more conducive to daily physical activity CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 153 APRIL 18, 2005