Another Link

In yet another link between poverty and obesity, children who live in unsafe neighborhoods are four times more likely to be overweight.

"In effect, there may well be a relatively simple and straightforward relationship between living in a dangerous neighbourhood and overweight; namely, in attempting to protect their children from harm, parents not only decrease the kind of physical activity that comes from playing outdoors in the neighbourhood but inadvertently increase the likelihood of sedentary activity that comes from staying indoors."

Makes perfect sense. I was warned that there had been a spate of daytime rapes on the bike path near my house, and I suddenly didn't much feel like biking there anymore. Sad but true.