obese bity rates this year compared to last year, was washington, d.c. what was surprising to me was that some of the simplest measures seem to have an impact. take a look at these things. doing things like adding more bike lanes, creating wider walking paths, adding more parks. they have a big renovation project where they added more marks. opened rec centers, free nutrition classes. amazing how high the health illiteracy rate is when it comes to nutrition. in schools specifically, starting mandatory health classes. i don t know if you had health classes when you were in school. mandatory health classes, physical ed classes, we know a lot of schools cut the programs back. school lunch overhaul. so many school lunch programs simply do not help with childhood obesity problems and standards across board became stricter. in d.c. it seems to have made a difference and take that aggregate. it is hard to assign any one of those things as the biggest sort of benefit but, you know, you look at