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Oklahoma City Mayor puts entire city on diet

Posted: Jan 4th 2008 7:29PM by Brian White
Filed under: Diet and Weight Loss

Instead of huge portions, chicken-fried steak and a mountain of potatoes, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett wants his city to lose a collective one million pounds in 2008.

Now that's one neat New Year's resolution, yes? Cornett says that Oklahoma City is known as one of America's fattest cities -- a distinction he's like to change soon if possible.

The one-million pound weight loss goal was promoted by Cornett's own struggle to lose weight, so he evidently has a vested interest in this project.

Yesterday, Cornett said "The message of this obesity initiative is that we've got to watch what we eat ... exercise is part of it and the city is trying to change into a city that is less sprawling, has more density and is more pedestrian friendly, but you're not really going to take on obesity unless you acknowledge that we eat too much and don't eat the right foods."

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