{"id":4777,"date":"2020-02-21T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/news\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2021-03-31T00:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:36:02","slug":"is-your-city-making-you-fat-how-urban-planning-can-address-the-obesity-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/is-your-city-making-you-fat-how-urban-planning-can-address-the-obesity-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your city making you fat? How urban planning can address the obesity epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: theconversation.com<\/p>\n<p>New disease outbreaks, like the\u00a0novel coronavirus\u00a0that recently emerged in China\u2019s Hubei province, generate headlines and attention. Meanwhile, however, Americans face a slower but\u00a0much more pervasive health crisis: obesity.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40%\u00a0of Americans are considered obese. Rates of obesity for\u00a0children\u00a0have increased in recent decades, putting more people at increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.\u00a0One in 5 deaths\u00a0of those aged 40 to 85 are now attributed to obesity, and one recent study projects that by 2030,\u00a0nearly half of all U.S. adults will be obese.<\/p>\n<p>This problem is too often treated only as an issue of personal responsibility, with calls for people to eat healthier diets and exercise more. It is true that Americans need to cut their caloric intake, especially of foods high in sugar and saturated fats, and get more exercise. Nearly 80% of U.S. adults are not meeting\u00a0federal guidelines for physical activity, which recommend 2.5 to 5 hours of moderate physical activity weekly.<\/p>\n<p>But our built environment, which includes not only buildings but roads, sidewalks and public spaces, also plays an important role in physical health. Researchers call cities that promote sedentary lifestyles and poor diet\u00a0obesogenic. As a researcher\u00a0focusing on urban issues, I am encouraged to see city planners paying increasing attention to helping residents lead healthy lifestyles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/is-your-city-making-you-fat-how-urban-planning-can-address-the-obesity-epidemic\/#Fat_cities\" >Fat cities<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/is-your-city-making-you-fat-how-urban-planning-can-address-the-obesity-epidemic\/#Fat_cities-2\" >Fat cities<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/is-your-city-making-you-fat-how-urban-planning-can-address-the-obesity-epidemic\/#Getting_out_and_about\" >Getting out and about<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicplus.com\/blog\/is-your-city-making-you-fat-how-urban-planning-can-address-the-obesity-epidemic\/#Cities_as_machines\" >Cities as machines<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fat_cities\"><\/span>Fat cities<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Modern U.S. cities were designed to make exercise unnecessary. Cars and elevators symbolized urban areas as machines for more efficient living. Now it is clear that these improvements provide great benefits but also impose health costs.<\/p>\n<p>Recent studies show that urban sprawl encourages more driving and is\u00a0associated with higher weight. This correlation suggests that the layout and design of cities can\u00a0hinder or promote healthier lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n<p>As a thought experiment, what would a city that makes residents more overweight look like? It would probably have few fresh food facilities and discourage physical activity, thus encouraging people to eat fast food and sit in cars rather than walking or bicycling. In other words, it would resemble the standard\u00a0car-centric U.S. cities\u00a0that have emerged in the past 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Cities did not create the obesity epidemic, but they can make it worse by\u00a0neither promoting nor prompting healthier lifestyles. And it\u2019s not just happening in the U.S. Around the world, health experts contend,\u00a0cities are making people fat.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fat_cities-2\"><\/span>Fat cities<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Modern U.S. cities were designed to make exercise unnecessary. Cars and elevators symbolized urban areas as machines for more efficient living. Now it is clear that these improvements provide great benefits but also impose health costs.<\/p>\n<p>Recent studies show that urban sprawl encourages more driving and is\u00a0associated with higher weight. This correlation suggests that the layout and design of cities can\u00a0hinder or promote healthier lifestyle choices.<\/p>\n<p>As a thought experiment, what would a city that makes residents more overweight look like? It would probably have few fresh food facilities and discourage physical activity, thus encouraging people to eat fast food and sit in cars rather than walking or bicycling. In other words, it would resemble the standard\u00a0car-centric U.S. cities\u00a0that have emerged in the past 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Cities did not create the obesity epidemic, but they can make it worse by\u00a0neither promoting nor prompting healthier lifestyles. And it\u2019s not just happening in the U.S. Around the world, health experts contend,\u00a0cities are making people fat.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Getting_out_and_about\"><\/span>Getting out and about<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Planners are also paying increasing attention to\u00a0encouraging physical activity\u00a0by making it\u00a0easier and safer\u00a0for people to recreate, walk, bike and take public transportation.\u00a0Longevity studies\u00a0show that people live the longest in environments where physical activity is part of everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>Providing more walkable spaces,\u00a0better protected bike lanes\u00a0and more recreational spaces are important steps. But even smaller changes can be effective.<\/p>\n<p>Cities can close off streets on weekends to encourage communities to get out and walk. They also can provide more seating in public places, so that less-fit residents can rest during their journeys. Using public spaces in cities as places where people can exercise promotes equity, rather than allowing physical activity to become restricted to private gyms with often-expensive monthly fees.<\/p>\n<p>Studies\u00a0show that when cities are designed to provide walkability, bikeability, public transportation and more attractive green recreational spaces, then physical activity across the entire community increases. Minneapolis-St. Paul was rated the\u00a0nation\u2019s fittest city\u00a0after it made a commitment\u00a0a decade ago to expand bike lanes, tree planting and safer sidewalks. The changes encouraged residents to walk more and get more exercise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cities_as_machines\"><\/span>Cities as machines<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It will be expensive to create healthier cities. But a recent\u00a0survey of mayors\u00a0revealed that a majority believes their cities were too car-centric. Many wanted to invest more in bike infrastructure, parks and public sports complexes. Cities with high levels of obesity typically\u00a0don\u2019t make these features a priority.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. health care system, with its emphasis on tests and interventions to treat individual illness rather than on prevention, is the\u00a0most expensive in the world\u00a0with only modest levels of health outcomes and life expectancy compared to similarly wealthy countries. Integrating better diets and more physical activity into everyday urban life can help Americans become healthier more effectively, and at less cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[63,51],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss-gain","tag-epidemic","tag-obesity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is your city making you fat? 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