By Jonathan Partridge
Patterson Irrigator

SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2005

MODESTO — The “Supersize me” mentality among Americans may be killing us, and not just in terms of fast-food consumption, outgoing California Public Health Officer Dr. Richard Jackson said Wednesday. Jackson discussed how the trend in bigger homes, bigger cars and bigger food consumption is leading to big health problems at the Modesto Centre Plaza. “I’m going to assert that the biggest threat to American health is how we manage our wealth,” he said during an address on “Public Health and Urban Sprawl.” Jackson, who co-wrote a book published last year titled, “Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning and Building for Healthy Communities,” said diseases of the 21st century will be health care-related costs of aging, obesity, mental disorders and the environment.

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