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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (18919)	8/23/2010 10:32:27 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Cars cause obesity: ajpm-online.net I guess most people knew this already, but now it's documented. Interesting. I always though eating caused obesity. In fact, in the link you posted I didn't see anything about "cause" at all (there are, of course, all kinds of "associations" that don't represent "cause"). More-positive perceptions of one's neighborhood at baseline were associated with a -0.36 (p<0.05) lower BMI; 15% lower odds (95% CI=0.77, 0.94) of obesity; 9% higher odds (95% CI=0.99, 1.20) of meeting weekly RPA through walking; and 11% higher odds (95% CI=1.01, 1.22) of meeting RPA levels of vigorous exercise. The use of LRT to commute to work was associated with an average -1.18 reduction in BMI (p<0.05) and an 81% reduced odds (95% CI=0.04, 0.92) of becoming obese over time. Perhaps having plenty of money (and therefore more access to private transportation) causes people to eat more bad foods and get less exercise and thus leads to obesity.