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Obesity and crime

RobertU

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Several years ago I was on a date with a woman who mentioned that a doctor had advised her father to go for long walks to improve his health. However, he found that hard to do because he would be hassled by young thugs every time he tried to walk in his neighborhood. I suggested he try walking very early in the morning, presumably when the punks would still be asleep after a night of troublemaking.

I don’t know if my advice proved helpful.

Nevertheless, the incident suggests that poor people who live in dangerous neighborhoods may be overweight or obese, in part, because they are denied the opportunity to engage in the simplest form of exercise: walking. (Though, if they have transportation, they could drive to a mall or other safe public area to do their walking.)

And, of course, the danger isn’t just from people. A person living in my area, who was walking his dog, was attacked by a pit bull terrier somebody had let run loose.
 
Several years ago I was on a date with a woman who mentioned that a doctor had advised her father to go for long walks to improve his health. However, he found that hard to do because he would be hassled by young thugs every time he tried to walk in his neighborhood. I suggested he try walking very early in the morning, presumably when the punks would still be asleep after a night of troublemaking.

I don’t know if my advice proved helpful.

Nevertheless, the incident suggests that poor people who live in dangerous neighborhoods may be overweight or obese, in part, because they are denied the opportunity to engage in the simplest form of exercise: walking. (Though, if they have transportation, they could drive to a mall or other safe public area to do their walking.)

And, of course, the danger isn’t just from people. A person living in my area, who was walking his dog, was attacked by a pit bull terrier somebody had let run loose.

Kind of a chicken or the egg problem. People in poor neighborhoods aren't generally inclined to exercise for the sake of exercise. but that may be due partly to it being somewhat dangerous to do so. The one reinforces the other. But at all levels of our society obesity is a problem. Even kids in affluent neighborhoods are fat. I think the fat crisis isn't really about exercise, but that we eat such high carb diets and use lots of seed oil in everything, including salad dressing, which sort of defeats the whole point of eating salads.
 
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