{"id":2598,"date":"2009-03-27T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/location-location-location.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:22:23","slug":"location-location-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"Location, Location, Location"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It turns out that the three most important aspects of purchasing a new home, can also impact your weight!<\/div>\n
This article in the NYTimes<\/a> indicates that ninth graders whose schools are within a block of a fast-food outlet are more likely to be obese than students whose schools are a quarter of a mile or more away.<\/p>\n

The study is from the national Bureau of Economic Research, and just wanted to see whether close geographic proximity to fast food plays a causal role in obesity.<\/p>\n

To do this, they followed a large population of ninth grade kids for almost a decade. They were able to see the effect of the fast food restaurants by checking the kids in the years before and after a new fast food outlet opened nearby.<\/p>\n

They controlled for income, education and race, and still found that obesity rates were 5% higher for the ninth graders whose schools were within one-tenth of a mile of a pizza, burger or other popular fast-food outlet. This was compared with students at schools farther away from the fast-food stores. <\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI think we got as close to proving causation as any other study has, and probably as close as is feasible with the existing data,\u201d<\/em> said Enrico Moretti, a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the paper\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n

The other factor here, however, is the mysterious X factor called … the parent. My guess is that the degree of parental involvement at home, in the kitchen, around the family table, will also impact these numbers.<\/p>\n

The authors did not mention these issues. I know they are hard to quantify scientifically, but they are also incredibly important in the development of healthy eating behaviors, and choices. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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