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I would bet that in some poor neighborhoods, watching TV is safer than playing sports.
by sethg 17y ago
I would bet that in some poor neighborhoods, watching TV is safer than playing sports.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoI'm not sure of that. In the US, obesity causes about 112,000 deaths yearly [1]. 14,000 or so people were murdered [2], mostly by people they knew [3]. This doesn't give relative risks in any given neighborhood, of course, but it is suggestive. Also, personal experience: Harlem is extremely safe, but you see lots of obesity and very little sports activity there. [1] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cluster=2169145441962801940&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=qmZ1S6CqIpS0tgfSvaG_Cg&sa=X&oi=science_links&resnum=1&ct=sl-allversions&ved=0CBAQ0AIwAA http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cluster=... [2] http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_01.html http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/expanded_informatio... [3] http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_10.html http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/offenses/expanded_informatio...