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Total Medical Solutions (TMS) has appointed Tricia R. Ferguson, PHR to Director of Human Resources and Administration.  For the past year, Ferguson served TMS as a senior human resource consultant with Insurance Office of America before accepting the full-time position.
 
Ferguson has more than 18 years of human resource management and consulting experience. She has managed all aspects of human resources, including workers' compensation benefits, employee relations, payroll, and recruiting for organizations in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors.  She has also consulted with business owners and managers on a range of human resource issues. 

According to studies released by the Center for Disease Control, fifty-eight million Americans are overweight and forty million Americans are obese; eight out of ten Americans over the age of twenty-five are overweight.

Currently, every state exceeds the government's national goal to reduce obesity rates to 15 percent by the year 2010. Florida has an adult obesity rate of 21.8 percent, ranking in the 35th heaviest in the nation. The state is one of 31 states where obesity rates have escalated recently. In 1991, only four of 50 states had obesity prevalence rates of five to 19 percent and none had obesity prevalence rates greater than 20 percent. Fifteen years later, in 2006, only four states had a prevalence of obesity less than 20 percent.

A person is considered overweight if he has a BMI of 25 to 29.9, while obese is a BMI of 30 or greater. BMI is calculated by dividing weight in pounds (lbs) by height in inches (in) squared and multiplying by a conversion factor of 703.