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Obesity And The Sprawl Index

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
26 August 2004 - 12:00pm

Andrew Ferguson ridicules the Smart Growth America study that claims a link between obesity and urban sprawl.

"Thanks to the efforts of Smart Growth America and its allies, we are getting close to formulating the perfect policy non sequitur. Here's my proposal: Fat people who don't pay their child support payments should be banned from eating potato chips while shopping for guns at Wal-Mart. "

Full Story: Is Your Suburban Neighborhood Making You Fat?: Andrew Ferguson
Source: Bloomberg, July 27, 2004
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