Huron Expositor, 2009-06-03, Page 8sitor • June 3, 2009
News.
Ept cpiplo 1st says Huron residents need healthierIifestyle
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Obesity,high risk drinking, smog advisories p ague health of Huron County
involves one too many trips to the all-vincial counterparts there are other median age of 7.6 for men and 81 for
you -can -eat buffet given that 36 per areas - including a high rate (64 per women.
cent of county residents are deemed cent) of households on ; private sep- The leading causes of death in the
either overweight or obese. tic systems that could prove to give county, noted Hall, include heart dis-
To add to that is the sobering fact the county a bellyache if there was a ease, strokes and cancer.
that 47 per cent of county residents problem with groundwater. Hall said the next step in the pro- -
acknowledge they don't bother to ex- In fact, report stats reveal there cess is for the Huron County Health
ercise during downtime. are more food and waterborne-relat- Unit to begin addressing ways in
One thing that 50 per of coun- ed illnesses in this region than in the which to encourage county residents
ty residents do take on, however, is province as a whole. to live healthier lifestyles.
high-risk drinking What was most compelling to Hall She noted getting that message out
Indeed, said Hall, the county's is the high number of smog adviso- might be easier than one might ex -
youth go further than their provin= ries in Huron Perth. pect given that 25 per cent of coun-
cial counterparts in participating in "What was surprising to me at ty residents report feeling a strong
binge drinking, which is considered least ... is the similar number of sense of community, a figure that is
to be imbibing more than five drinks smog advisories in Huron Perth as much higher than what is found at
in one session. there were in Ibronto," she said. the provincial level.
Though county residents report Still, the life expectancy in Huron
lower stress levels than- their pro- County is similar to Ontario, with a
Cheryl Death
4111.1.111111.0
Step away from the donut, and the
after-dinner cigarette.
That was part of the news deliv-
ered by Shelly -Ann Hall, epidemiolo-
gist for Huron County, during a May
19 presentation on the Community
Health Status Report, at the coun-
ty's second committee -of -the -whole
session.
Thanks to -a consultative process,
which involved interviewing a num-
ber of county residents as well as
collecting statistics in .a variety of
related areas, the first -of -its -kind re-
port unveils most of what ails Huron
County.
And a lot of it, suggests the report,
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