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Mapping Transportation and Health in the United States

What is the relationship between car travel and health outcomes in the United States? Ariel Godwin and Anne Price challenge the claim that more time in the car decreases your health by looking at the impacts of education, income, and employment rates.
16 January 2012 - 10:00am
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Richard Florida on the Geography of Health

Richard Florida examines the "Geography of Health" in American and why some cities are healthier than others.
8 January 2012 - 7:00am
The Atlantic Cities
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Healthy Travel Modes: Correlations, Causality and Caution

Driving makes people fatter and less healthy, right? Fanis Grammenos warns planners and urban designers that the answer is not so simple, and misusing the statistics will weaken effective debate.
13 October 2011 - 7:58am
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Coloradans are Least Obese, But Still Gaining Weight

Colorado has been heralded as the trimmest state in the country, but NPR reports that residents' weight is still on the rise.
7 October 2011 - 8:00am
NPR
Todd Litman

Dagwood Should Be Fat, Sick and Impoverished

Wed, 05/04/2011 - 12:06

By all logic, the comic strip character Dagwood should be fat, sick and impoverished due to his gluttonous eating, sedentary habits, and automobile-dependent lifestyle. Blondie should worry about his high blood pressure and clogged arteries, and the Bumsteads should struggle to bear rising automobile expenses. Yet they are all thin, healthy and financially secure, protected from all consequences of indulgent consumerism.

 

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Bus Standards Changed for Heavier Americans

The Federal Transit Authority (FTA) has been making decisions for years about transit capacity using weight standards from 1962. The FTA is proposing to update the average American from 150 to 175 pounds to better reflect reality.
22 March 2011 - 6:00am
USA Today

America's Second Most Obese City Get Better Access to Healthy Foods

Birmingham, Alabama is creating a new system of open markets that will bring fresh foods as well as more social space for the city's residents.
11 March 2011 - 6:00am
Project For Public Spaces
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Designing Out Obesity

An emerging design movement is trying to counteract obesity in American cities.
26 February 2011 - 5:00am
Fast Co. Design

Believe It or Not: Suburbs Not Responsible For Obesity Rates

A study conducted in Illinois has found no correlation between rates of obesity to suburban sprawl, as was previously believed.
10 February 2011 - 2:00pm
US News
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Widening Waistlines Weigh on Developing Cities

Cities across the developing world are dealing more with rising obesity rates as urbanization occurs, reports TheCityFix's Jonna McKone.
13 January 2011 - 7:00am
TheCityFix

Parks, Walkability and the Role They Play in Obesity

St. Louis' Forest Park is a model of good planning, but inner-city parks are in much worse shape and having an effect on the health of those communities, says a new study.
10 November 2010 - 9:00am
The St. Louis Beacon

The Light Rail Diet

A new study from The Journal of Preventative Medicine says that drivers in Charlotte, North Carolina who switched to riding the Lynx Light Rail lost an average of 6 1/2 pounds.
31 August 2010 - 2:00pm
Fox Charlotte

Drive-Thrus Banned at Birthplace

The city of Baldwin Park, California -- purported home of the world's first drive-thru -- is temporarily banning any new construction of drive-thrus to try to combat obesity.
4 August 2010 - 12:00pm
The Christian Science Monitor

Fuzzy Connection Between Transportation Policy and Obesity?

Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is paying close attention to the link between transportation options and obesity in America. Next American City's Willy Staley looks at whether this attention will fight the epidemic.
3 August 2010 - 7:00am
Next American City

Quantifying Health Costs Of Auto-Dependency

Can health care costs be factored into transportation investments? Should they? The American Public Health Association says an emphatic 'yes' to both. Results are reported in a 12-page report that includes cost savings from walkable urban design.
2 June 2010 - 11:00am
Grist

Parks, Playgrounds and Physical Activity

Do parks succeed in making people more active? What works and what doesn't when designing and maintaining a park? A recent study by Active Living Research pulls together all the available research. Tim Halbur talks with the man behind the study, Andrew J. Mowen.
27 May 2010 - 5:00am

The Most Obese Cities

Gallup looks at the body mass index of American cities to see which metro areas are the most overweight. Flint, Michigan and Stockton, California come out on top.
3 March 2010 - 9:00am
Gallup
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Fighting Obesity With Design

Last week, five NYC departments released a new publication on "Active Design Guidelines," presenting ways to address public health considerations through the built environment. Urban Omnibus takes a look.
7 February 2010 - 5:00am
Urban Omnibus

Corner Stores and Fat Kids

Urban convenience stores are being further linked to childhood obesity after the release of a new study from Temple University.
21 January 2010 - 5:00am
Miller-McCune
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Mapping America's Fat

This post from Richard Florida looks at the geography of obesity in America, and relates state obesity rates to the rates of death from various diseases.
28 November 2009 - 11:00am
Creative Class Exchange
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