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'Healthiest State Walk' in Marion Wednesday
Stop by Marion's Thomas Park at noon for a 1-kilometer stroll with Marion residents.
This year's Healthiest State Walk in Marion will take place Wednesday at Thomas Park.
All interested walkers can sign up at the Healthiest State Website and show up around noon. Marion Chamber of Commerce President Jill Ackerman said walkers should feel free to wear their school colors for homecoming week.
If you're working Wednesday afternoon, there's still a good chance you can make it. The walk is only 1-kilometer long, so it could fit well within a lunch break.
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The Healthiest State Initiative is a private program designed to encourage healthy lifestyles for Iowans, started after Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad announced the plan for Iowa to become the healthiest state in the nation by 2016.
Our relative health will be measured by Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which currently ranks Iowa as the 16th healthiest state.
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Who's got the top spot? Hawaii.
We'd already be the healthiest state if Iowans had unlimited access to fresh fish and the most stressful jobs available were scuba instructing.
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