Our Cities, Ourselves: Can urban design keep you from getting fat? | SF Gate
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/04/20/carollloyd.DTL
Ever since two studies linked sprawl and obesity in 2003, study upon study has been published suggesting that our built environment — marked by car-oriented, isolated, unwalkable neighborhoods — is having a deleterious influence on our health. In other words, sprawl is making us unhealthy, unhappy and fat.