Blame it on your neighborhood
8/11/2008
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If you have put on a few pounds recently, you may be able to blame your neighborhood.
A new study, in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that the year a housing development was built can play a key role in keeping you fit and slim.
Researchers at the University of Utah found that older neighborhoods, those built before 1950, are better than the newer housing developments because they’re built with pedestrians in mind: not cars.
Older neighborhoods have sidewalks, trees, parks, and offer more local stores and restaurants that people can walk to. Modern developments generally consist of nothing but housing which forces residents into their car to run any errands.
According to the study--for each decade older the neighborhood, the obesity risk dropped about eight-percent in women and thirteen-percent in men.
The findings go along with previous studies associating urban sprawl with higher rates of obesity.
A new study, in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that the year a housing development was built can play a key role in keeping you fit and slim.
Researchers at the University of Utah found that older neighborhoods, those built before 1950, are better than the newer housing developments because they’re built with pedestrians in mind: not cars.
Older neighborhoods have sidewalks, trees, parks, and offer more local stores and restaurants that people can walk to. Modern developments generally consist of nothing but housing which forces residents into their car to run any errands.
According to the study--for each decade older the neighborhood, the obesity risk dropped about eight-percent in women and thirteen-percent in men.
The findings go along with previous studies associating urban sprawl with higher rates of obesity.