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>City design and zoning More than any one factor, this is one of the biggest, if not thee biggest one. Get people out of cares and walking around to do daily t
by no_wizard 3y ago
>City design and zoning
More than any one factor, this is one of the biggest, if not thee biggest one. Get people out of cares and walking around to do daily things like going to work, or shopping for groceries etc. and you naturally get more movement (and interaction) in your day. This compounds over time and encourages other movement.
Of course food matters (you can't exercise away a bad diet after all) but we actively encourage stationary activities by not having public spaces that are designed for movement and activity on foot / bicycle / other physically active options
- vundercind 3y agoI’d bet our relatively weak social safety net and poor family support, plus low amounts of time off (especially for low-wage workers who will tend to have lots of other sources of stress and demands on their time, too) are also major contributors. Probably a few of these things wouldn’t have such a bad outcome, but we’ve likely got a lot of problems all contributing to something much worse than the simple sum of their individual harms.