It is an age-old knowledge that city dwellers are thinner because their dense, centralized environment encourages walking, in comparison to the suburbanites and rural residents, who tend to drive to widely scattered destinations. But, a new finding contradicts this conventional wisdom.



According to the new study, urban sprawl cannot be blamed for rising obesity across the world. This is claimed by a Chicago-area study. The study was presented by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers to the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council. The researchers claim that body-mass index scores in most city neighborhoods differ little from those in the farthest outlying areas.



Via: Newswire