Good weather's coming, dust off those walking shoes for a good cause

Ok so this is a quick heads up WAY in advance.  We just heard about another great cause worth supporting. The Obesity Action Coalition is co-organising a national obesity awareness walk to bring attention to the need for prevention and treatment of the obesity epidemic that is taking the US by storm.

This event will take place in Washington DC at the National Mall  - Monument Park on Tuesday, June 17th 2008 starting at 6:30pm. You can register by clicking here and registration is absolutely free.

You can also participate by sponsoring a walker or simply by helping to get the word out to anybody you believe would be interested. We will be there and are working to get a diaTribe walking team together so if you are interested, please write to Kaku Armah at [email protected] with your contact information and he will be in touch closer to the date.

We look forward to an ultra successful walk. For a snapshot of the progression of our obesity epidemic, check out the CDC obesity trend map at http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/maps/. We could look at these maps everyday - they're fascinatingly disturbing.