Full Text of SR0415 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, According to statistics from the Centers for | 3 | | Disease Control and Prevention, more than one-third of adults | 4 | | and almost 17% of youth were obese in 2009-2010; over 78 | 5 | | million U.S. adults and about 12.5 million U.S. children and | 6 | | adolescents were obese; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, According to the Centers for Disease Control and | 8 | | Prevention, medical costs associated with obesity were | 9 | | estimated at $147 billion in 2008; the medical costs for people | 10 | | who are obese were $1,429 higher than those of normal weight; | 11 | | and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Obesity increases the risk of diabetes, heart | 13 | | disease, stroke, and other health problems; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, The American Medical Association voted at its | 15 | | recent annual meeting in Chicago to recognize obesity as a | 16 | | disease and reported that obesity rates in our country have | 17 | | "doubled among adults in the last twenty years and tripled | 18 | | among children in a single generation"; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the | 20 | | World Health Organization recognize obesity as a disease; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, A group of big city mayors of Chicago, New York, | 2 | | Los Angeles, and 15 other cities have sent a letter asking | 3 | | Congress to consider limiting the use of Supplemental Nutrition | 4 | | Assistance Program benefits by excluding the purchases of soda | 5 | | and other sugary drinks; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, In support of Governor Pat Quinn's June 8, 2013 | 7 | | promotional effort to encourage the use of LINK Cards at | 8 | | Illinois Farmers Markets and to promote the accessibility and | 9 | | affordability of healthy food options in Illinois, LINK Up | 10 | | Illinois aims to connect low-income residents with nutritious | 11 | | food options by providing farmers markets throughout the State | 12 | | with Double Value Coupons; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance | 14 | | Program was designed to help end hunger and improve nutrition | 15 | | and health; the program helps low-income households buy the | 16 | | food they need for a nutritionally adequate diet; the program | 17 | | is managed by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the | 18 | | United States Department of Agriculture; the Department of | 19 | | Human Services administers the program in Illinois; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, The federal government mandates which foods may be | 21 | | purchased under the program; the federal government specifies | 22 | | that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits can be | 23 | | used to buy any food or food product for human consumption, |
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| 1 | | plus seeds and plants for use in home gardens to produce food; | 2 | | therefore, be it
| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | 4 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the United | 5 | | States Congress to review the Supplemental Nutrition | 6 | | Assistance Program and to improve the nutritional quality | 7 | | standards of the program by eliminating those food and beverage | 8 | | products that have minimal nutritional value as defined by the | 9 | | U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service; | 10 | | and be it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 12 | | presented to the members of the Illinois congressional | 13 | | delegation.
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