TIM PRATT
City officials in November formed a committee of local business leaders, medical experts and other community members to enter Starkville in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation’s “Healthy Hometown” competition against other municipalities from around the state.
The group met Thursday and already has a number of ideas to make Starkville’s case stronger in the Healthy Hometown competition, but also to improve the quality of life for city residents and Mississippi State University students.
Oktibbeha County Hospital, which already offers free tobacco-cessation programs, is well-represented on the group’s medical subcommittee. One idea the medical subcommittee offered is a program tentatively called “Steps on Saturday,” during which the hospital would provide pedometers at locations around the city so walkers can keep track of the distance they have covered.
The Steps on Saturday idea is still in the conceptual phase, but Eddie Myles, who works in the hospital’s Healthplex, said the pedometers could be checked out at locations where people already excercise, like tracks, paths and even in Thad Cochrane Research, Technology and Economic Development Park, which contains a one-mile loop used frequently by walkers and joggers. Hospital employees also will have the opportunity to keep track of their steps at work.
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