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More On Sprawl and Obesity

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Laura Kranz
17 September 2003 - 7:00am

David Suzuki explains why North America's car-centric society is responsible for the near-epidemic levels of obesity.

"So while more than 70 percent of their parents walked or rode bicycles to school, just 18 percent of today's schoolchildren in the United States do the same. In fact, more that 90 percent of all urban trips in the United States are by car, while just six percent are by foot or bike... By designing decentralized suburbs with little pedestrian or bicycle access to schools, offices, shopping, and recreation, we have essentially engineered physical activity out of our daily lives."

Full Story: Suburban sprawl is bad for people and the planet
Source: Environmental News Network, September 16, 2003
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