Tell me about it. We're in Boston ("America's Walking City" according to
the tourist board) and although we do have a (single) car we tend to walk
most everywhere possible. We also bike, but me more that anybody else (I
bike to work, but we've got the tandem trailer and Burley Trailer for the
kids for those unfortunately rare family outings).
So, in short - lots of footwork here.
But my parent live in Houston. Not the same story at all.
Every home is (generally) in a relatively small, gated community. Within
those little areas there are nice walkways, but trying to get to the corner
store less than a mile away is a nightmare: no municipal sidewalks in the
residential areas. In fact no side-anything as the roads are boarded by
drainage ditches.
Most roads are fast and wide (most main roads are at least six lanes) and
rarely if ever have crosswalks.
There is definitely a different attitude about walking in some places.
Jim Davis
-----Original Message-----
From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:54 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: now the truly important news
Well, my kids walk quite a bit but we live in a city, and in a
family-oriented relatively safe neighborhood. But we have lived in a
lot of places where there are no sidewalks, is what I was talking
about; lots of places that just assume you have a car and that this is
the only way you move about. This, in my opinion, is at least as much
to blame for obese children as McDonald's. Actually, the concern with
fast food isa not so much present diet -- children do need fat, though
there are better fats than the McD version -- but dietary habits that
may be hard to change once you are oh, over 25 and and working a desk
job. But I think Supersize Me -- though I haven't see it -- doesn't
really give people credit for the responsibility to manage their own
health. Gee, if you notice you are getting fatter, cut down on those
Big Macs! On the third hand, I think that there may well be some sort
of virus that affects metabolism. I just don't think that even if
infected diet is irrelevant :)
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