Google wants Georgia to get some exercise

by billso on Saturday, 28 June 2008

I attended the Uni­ver­sity of Geor­gia, so I know that Geor­gia has more than a few folks who need some exer­cise. Google’s Atlanta office is a found­ing spon­sor for Get Out­doors Geor­gia, a state pro­gram that encour­ages peo­ple to get off their seats and exer­cise in a park. Google is donat­ing a branded YouTube chan­nel, adver­tis­ing ser­vices, maps and other fea­tures to sup­port the effort.

If Google ever opens an Oahu office, I hope they will sup­port a sim­i­lar pro­gram for the island. A recent Fed­eral study con­cluded that 8% of all Amer­i­cans are dia­betic. That’s 24 mil­lion peo­ple, with another 54 mil­lion who are on the verge of look­ing like the humans in WALL-E. Once some­one, espe­cially a child, gets fat, he tends to stay fat. This Mot­ley Fool arti­cle, This Drug Mar­ket is Boom­ing, dis­cusses how phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies and investors are try­ing to profit from the dia­betes epidemic.

See Get Out­doors with GO Geor­gia! for more details.

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