Obesity is more prevalent in areas with lower educational attainment and certain ethnic profiles than in areas of suburban sprawl, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Researchers at UIC's Urban Transportation Center revisited their 2005 analysis of data from about 7 million northern Illinois drivers licenses, which found that body-mass index scores in most city neighborhoods differ little from those in the farthest outlying areas. Read the rest of this story....
Joe Coughlin
Joe Coughlin
It also states "body-mass indexes increased with [..] the percentage of zip-code residents who commute by car"
ReplyDeletePerhaps there isn't much difference between urban and suburban Chicago in the percentage who drive.