W.Va. unveils tool to help fight obesity (AP)

November 2nd, 2007 posted by admin
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Stephanie Cummings, a West Virginia University physican's assistant weighs Robbie Phillips, a member from the YMCA's afterschool program on Oct. 25, 2007, in Charleston, W.Va., at the unveiling of a plan by program health benefits group UniCare. The group plans to provide training to doctors and their staffs in obesity prevention and body mass index measurement. . (AP photo/Steven Wayne Rotsch,Governor's office)AP - West Virginia is hoping that a little wheel can make a big difference in the state’s obesity problem. The wheel is a body mass index calculator, a low-tech tool that will be distributed to doctors across the state as part of a new effort to get physicians to recognize obesity early in their patients.