Study: Living in the Suburbs Can Make You Sick

You lost weight?
I lost money, gained weight. :-(

All that walking didn't help either. But the food was good. Only in Paris can you find a whole street dedicated to crepes... restaurant after restaurant and they only serve crepes. (Near Rue Odessa in Montparnasse.) Too bad it's full of the French.

I ate a little in France. Their version of McDonald's was so fresh and the cheese was really good. I stayed away from the restaurants because the prices STARTED at fifty euro in many places FIFTY!!!!! The food wasn't that great in Venice but then I didn't eat in any restaurants there either. The Burger King was good there, freshest condiments and cheese ever. Why is the cheese so good in Europe? I wonder. But yes you could immediately pick out the Americans at the Burger King as Venice has no fat people, maybe .0000001% *LOL*

"To improve our health, the study suggests that we should build cities where people feel comfortable walking and are not so dependent on cars," said Deborah Cohen, another Rand researcher.

The reason commuters spend so much time in cars is that the government does such a lousy job of building roads. Where I live in the suburbs, there is only one freeway into the city and when there is one accident somewhere along the way the traffic is held up everywhere.

People around here have the odd view that roads create traffic. I was watching a debate between local candidates a few years back and they were asked if they were in favor of a new road that would have served as a handy local alternate to the only freeway we have. They were unanimously opposed to it because they feared that people would actually drive on it and traffic would occur. The anti-growth environmental wackos have made "traffic" such a dirty word that we have come to the point that so little road construction occurs that all roads are clogged with cars going so slowly and inefficiently that they are contributing much more pollution than they would be on an efficient road system.

YOU ATE AT MCDONALD'S IN FRANCE!!

Sacre bleu! ;-)

I avoided France for years due to my dislike of the French, but when I finally went there, I couldn't resist eating French food in French restaurants! Great stuff. Overpriced, but great. The wine is remarkably cheap though. I haven't bought any in years, so bought a couple of bottles of good red. Just this once, then it's back to my boycott.

I was truly surprised at how many Americans there were in Paris. Zillions of them swarming all over the place.

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