Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
The headline reads like something from The Onion, no? This comes to us via the WTF Department (actually from an article by Andrew J. Bernstein in The Saratogian): "Janette Kaddo Marino and her son, Adam, 12, wanted to participate...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
In the first study to look at the effect of neighborhood greenness on inner city children's weight over time, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the University of Washington...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
More and more, this blog seems to be about walkable communities. I didn’t plan it that way, exactly, but from complete streets to obesity to Google’s walking directions to America’s most walkable cities, I seem to have this recurring theme. ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) has released its latest numbers on obesity and the prevalence of overweight people in the US. Once again, they aren’t pretty.Publishing its findings for 2007 state-by-state, the CDC found that not a single state...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
We Americans have gotten fat. And we’ve done so to an alarming degree. Sunday’s Washington Post began a five-part series on obesity in children, a particularly serious part of the problem:“In ways only beginning to be understood, being overweight at...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
The balance of healthy-vs.-unhealthy food options near your home has a major impact on your health risk, according to a new report released this week by PolicyLink, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research, and the California Center for Public Health...continued→
