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Obesity And Sprawl

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: The Practice of New Urbanism
30 April 2001 - 12:00pm

Neal Peirce makes the connection between urban sprawl and increased obesity.

"We sit in cars. We don't walk to the store on the corner. We ride the lawnmower instead of pushing it. We've engineered almost any kind of work out of our lives. That's why we're growing bigger." While Peirce admits there's no proverbial smoking gun linking obesity and sprawl, "there's enough strong circumstantial evidence that we better take it seriously."

Full Story: OBESITY AND SPRAWL: THE CONNECTION TIGHTENS
Source: Alliance For Redesigning Government, April 21, 2001
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