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A healthy community will be a productive one. Having Tourette Syndrome, I understand the need for a healthy mind and body. I also believe in the idiom, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” A major factor in achieving health is good diet and exercise. I support the education of residents in the importance of diet and exercise and will strive to make health programs and information convenient and available.

Unfortunately the 45th has one of the city’s highest rates of uninsured residents . This is not acceptable. We have to ensure that information and funding is in place to reverse this. Schools, churches, and civic groups should be used as conduits to consistently get the message out on healthy living habits.

I will:

* Support community education in the major diseases that affect our community, such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, asthma, sickle cell and obesity
* Support programs that focus on diet and exercise
* Fund programs focused on reversing the trend of un-/ under-insurance in our community
* Expand programs for prenatal care