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SPORTS MEDICINE :
MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: OBESITY :
PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND FITNESS :
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ENVIRONMENT:
Declining Walkability Plays a Big Role in China's Obesity Problem
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Declining Walkability Plays a Big Role in China's Obesity Problem
But it's the middle class, not the poor who may pay the biggest price.
Sarah Goodyear
November 17, 2014
City Lab
Atlantic
http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/11/how-urban-design-
affects-walkability-and-obesity-in-chinas-booming-cities/382830/
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In China's rapidly changing urban landscape, the Chinese middle class may
be bearing the greatest burden when it comes to the connection between the
way their cities are being built and rates of obesity, a new study
suggests.
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A paper recently published in the journal Preventive Medicine examines the
connections between obesity, income, and the built environment in two of
China's major cities, Shanghai and Hangzhou. The research team is headed
up by Mariela Alfonzo, an assistant research professor at the NYU School
of Engineering and a Fulbright scholar who has spent years developing
measures of walkability in the United States and is now expanding that
work to China.
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Alfonzo and her colleagues found that, as in other countries, there is a
link between neighborhood design-their walkability-and levels of physical
activity among residents. They also found, however, that the relationship
between income, obesity, and physical activity is not a linear one in
China. There, the poorest and the most affluent were both less likely to
be obese than the middle class.
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"Not only did we find that more walkable places are tied to increased
walking and less obesity, but we found that middle-income people are
particularly impacted by the type of built environment they live in,"
Alfonzo writes in an email. "This runs counter to the finding that
higher-income people are the ones that are more likely to be obese. We
think it's actually the middle class, as they are the ones more likely to
live in less walkable places, and are the ones that are adopting fast
food/Western diets. The higher-income people can afford to live in
walkable places and they are more aware of what actually constitutes
healthy eating. The lower-income people are also often still living in the
center of town (more walkable) just in smaller/run-down units and don't
have access to Western food."
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Obesity in China is a big problem, and it's growing. According to figures
cited by the researchers, a recent study conducted in 10 Chinese provinces
found that 34 percent of people between the ages of 20 and 69 are
overweight, and it is estimated that one-fifth of all overweight or obese
people in the world are now living in China.
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