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A striking relationship between obesity and driving
- brnstz 15y agoMore driving means less walking. I try to detour from my subway commute in NYC a few times a week and walk several miles on my way home. It's pleasant, doesn't take much time (30-60 minutes), and effective. When I don't do this (the winter), I can feel the difference in my health. There is a lot of effort expended trying to get people to "exercise" (at parks, gyms, etc.). But if you're not trying to be an athlete, it's easy to burn out on "exercise." Certainly if you're already obese. But 2-5 mile walks that: * go to/from a useful destination * don't go through pedestrian unfriendly areas (highways and strip malls with no shade and no sidewalk) * don't go through the ghetto are not easily found in most of America. It's a shame. I think that's really all most people need.
- warmfuzzykitten 15y agoThis article really should get some sort of award for most incoherent graphical data. What in the living blue blazes is "correlation lagged by six years"? The data all go up, the prediction turns sharply downward. That's right, we're all going to be slim...tomorrow.
- mkr-hn 15y agoI think some people get so caught up in putting data to graphs that they don't stop to consider the meaningfulness of the information or the usability of the graph.
- Shorel 15y agoIt seems to be related to sitting, nothing particular about sitting in a car or outside it.