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How does banning cars and making cities more walk-able effect obesity?

• adrianN 7y ago
  I'd guess that nobody knows because we can't do experiments like that without a ton of confounding variables.
• temon 7y ago
  I think in real life we have a lot of variables related to solve the obesity problem. But I agree that reduce using a car and make everyone use a bicycle/walking will reduce the percentage of obesity. We have to think more.
• Someone 7y ago
  It entices people to do some physical exercise each day. That (my theory) doesn’t make them lose weight, but makes them gain less weight. A negative correlation between obesity prevalence and ‘active transportation’ certainly exists. Check the charts on pages 11/20 and 12/20 (page numbers 805 and 806) of http://www.cycle-helmets.com/walk-bike-obesity-rates.pdf http://www.cycle-helmets.com/walk-bike-obesity-rates.pdf