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"A major reason for obesity is that our cities and suburbs are designed so that it is extremely difficult,
even dangerous, to use any method of transportation other than a car. "

There was an article posted on FR last week which says that the studies show that the amount of overweight-ness in the suburbs and the large cities (like NYC) is virtually the same. I'll try to find the article and post a link.

The theory about how the 'burbs are killing us sounds great but it doesn't pan out when you look at the data. This whole article is based on a faulty assumption, and I think its main purpose is to smear the automobile, it's part of the limousine liberal thought process about how we should feel guilty for using so many resources to run our cars. I was looking for comments in the article about evil SUVs; surely the author forgot to rail away about that as somehow being a factor in making us fat, also.

I agree that most of the people who make these kinds of complaints are just anti-car.

I'm not. But I do like to be able to bike or walk when I feel like it w/o seriously risking my life.

And I think our road systems should not be designed in such a way as to prevent anyone without a car from getting where they need to go.