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The Suburbs Made Us Fat
The Atlantic Magazine ^ | August 13, 2014 | James Hamblin

Posted on 08/14/2014 4:01:39 AM PDT by CW_Conservative

People in dense cities are thinner and have healthier hearts than people in sprawling subdivisions.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda21; obesity
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To: pburgh01

Pickles don’t make you fat.


41 posted on 08/14/2014 5:25:18 AM PDT by Lisbon1940
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To: CW_Conservative

WOW, a few extra months in a nursing home at the end of our lives IF only we had the wit to live in some crowded inner city hellhole. Book me a ticket.


42 posted on 08/14/2014 5:36:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (Just remember, loot the liberals' houses, they don't have guns. - Freeper dfwgator)
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To: CW_Conservative
People in dense cities are thinner and have healthier hearts than people in sprawling subdivisions.

WOW, a few extra months in a nursing home at the end of our lives IF only we had the wit to live in some crowded inner city hellhole? Book me a ticket.

43 posted on 08/14/2014 5:37:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (Just remember, loot the liberals' houses, they don't have guns. - Freeper dfwgator)
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To: CW_Conservative

The collectivist left hates the suburbs, where private property and automobiles give power and freedom to the individual.


44 posted on 08/14/2014 5:42:19 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
Fat is 99.9% a choice.

Take out all the extraneous commentary, all the white noise discussion, all the salesmanship for diet aids, all the "science" and that statement is, and always will be, the bottom line.

45 posted on 08/14/2014 5:42:47 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: CW_Conservative

The author has obviously never hand-cut two acres of grass.


46 posted on 08/14/2014 5:43:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: CW_Conservative

*People in dense cities are thinner and have healthier hearts than people in sprawling subdivisions.*

That’s because they have to run from the gunfire. Keeps them in shape.


47 posted on 08/14/2014 5:56:04 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: CW_Conservative

Liberals LOVE cities. They need others around them as a support group. They are feeble minded and physically weak. They need constant hugs, reaffirmations, and pats on the head.

Those that live outside the cities are considered arrogant bastards. Who do they think they are not needing pats on the head or friends around them 24x7?!


48 posted on 08/14/2014 6:02:51 AM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: Sooth2222

And without having to see punk thug buttcrack half the time because we know how to wear clothing out this way.


49 posted on 08/14/2014 6:07:25 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Blennos; pburgh01

Yes, diet can correct it for just about all of us, it seems.

But there also was a major downswing in physical labor and exercise for many Americans between the early and late 20th centuries.

Move into Midtown Manhattan and for the same amount of calories you will likely maintain or lose weight. Then go out to the car-dependent ‘burbs again and without dietary adjustment, your weight will start to climb.

(I know both of these truths from personal (albeit, by definition, anecdotal) experience.


50 posted on 08/14/2014 6:07:50 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CodeToad

Doesn’t sound like you have a much better understanding of city living than they do of country life.


51 posted on 08/14/2014 6:09:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

“:Doesn’t sound like you have a much better understanding of city living “

I know perfectly well the viewpoints liberals have of city versus suburb. Sounds like you don’t.


52 posted on 08/14/2014 6:22:01 AM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: 9YearLurker

“Move into Midtown Manhattan and for the same amount of calories you will likely maintain or lose weight. Then go out to the car-dependent ‘burbs again and without dietary adjustment, your weight will start to climb.”

That’s a typical liberal view of the city vs suburbs that somehow city life is more invigorating. The fattest and most out of shape stressed our freaks I see are city dwellers.

I don’t anyone that lives outside a city that says, “Gosh, I can’t wait to go live in Manhattan!”, but I know plenty in Manhattan that can’t wait to get out of that cesspool.


53 posted on 08/14/2014 6:24:32 AM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: CW_Conservative

From this study can we say automobile emissions cause people to lose weight?


54 posted on 08/14/2014 6:46:02 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: CodeToad

You don’t begin to know what you’re talking about.


55 posted on 08/14/2014 6:48:56 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CW_Conservative

“older, denser, connected cities were killing three times fewer people than sparser, tree-like cities on an annual basis.”
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I can’t take anything seriously when the writing sounds so stupid! Killing three times fewer people? If I had written such an absurdity in the fifth grade my teacher would have given me an F in English. Does anyone know how to write an intelligible sentence any longer? I am so tired of asking myself, what is that supposed to mean, or in some extreme cases, did the author even know what he was trying to say?


56 posted on 08/14/2014 7:05:20 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: pburgh01
What caused us to be fat ... is the industrial food conglomerates.

Ding, ding, we have a winner! Good for you. The more I read about our food supply, the less frankenfood I consume.

57 posted on 08/14/2014 7:11:35 AM PDT by ELS
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To: CW_Conservative

If they didn’t control for age - and there’s no indication that they did - then this “study” is meaningless.


58 posted on 08/14/2014 7:13:58 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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59 posted on 08/14/2014 7:15:53 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: CW_Conservative

Anything to further sheeplize everybody into more controllable pens, and free up land for Agenda 21.


60 posted on 08/14/2014 7:23:18 AM PDT by afsnco
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